Employee Relations Specialist

Job Title: Employee Relations Specialist

Location: St Pancras Hospital, NW1 0PE (Hybrid - minimum 2 days on site at either St Pancras Hospital / St Annes unless occasional meeting support is required at another site on a rare occasion)

Hours/ Shift Pattern: Monday- Friday 9am-5pm (37.5 hours a week)

Trust Location: Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust is the place for you.

About the Trust

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) provides high quality, safe and innovative care to our patients in the community, in their homes or in hospital.

We provide services for adults of working age, adults with learning difficulties, and older people in the London area. We currently deliver most of our care to residents in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington. However, we also provide substance misuse services in Westminster, and a substance misuse and psychological therapies service to people living in Kingston.

What you'll be responsible for:

• Advise and support managers and medical staff on appropriate action to take on complex/ highly complex probation, disciplinary, grievance, capability and absence issues with minimal supervision, in line with trust policies and procedures, using judgement to tailor advice to the situation with due consideration to legislation, good practice, precedent, Trust policy and risk.
• Proactively develop management capability across the Trust in effectively managing staff
• Provide hands-on support and advice and training to help up-skill the managers.
• Provide HR advice at formal hearings.
• Provide HR advice at informal/formal meetings as necessary and advise on management reports and correspondence in accordance with Trust procedures.
• Work in partnership with managers and assist in the presentation of cases up to and including dismissal as and when necessary.
• Monitor monthly ER related statistics, including absence and interpret information, identify problem areas, and work with managers to address them.
• Attend service line meetings to present workforce data and indicators and to discuss interventions to bring about improvements.
• Assist the Head of ER and ER Lead with responding to ET claims

You'll learn the following whilst working at the trust:

1. An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS
2. Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times
3. A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation

You'll have the following skills/experience:

• Experience of advising on a wide range of ER matters
• Demonstrable track record of proactively providing excellent HR support to senior managers
• Experience of effectively advising on highly complex ER issues with minimal supervision
• Experience of advising on change management processes
• Tactful when dealing with complex, sensitive and confidential ER issues
• NHS System Knowledge- ESR and MHPS (desirable)
• Previous NHS experience not essential but must have a strong ER background

This role may require you to show evidence of education to Degree level or Professional HR Qualification or at least 2 years relevant HR experience.

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

• Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week
• Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime
• Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts
• Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your "My Bank" shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
• Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
• Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more
• Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us
• Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

Who are NHS Professionals?

We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.

As an equal opportunities' organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

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