Senior Employee Relations Manager - Cambridge

Employee Relations Manager - Cambridge (Hybrid) - Initial 3 months

Lorien's Public Sector team is currently supporting the search for an experienced Employee Relations Manager.

This is an excellent opportunity for an HR professional with a strong Employee Relations background to support senior leaders across a wide range of complex workforce matters.

The role is initially fully onsite in Cambridge before moving to a hybrid working arrangement.

This is an Inside IR35 contract for an initial 3-month term, with likely extensions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert Employee Relations advice and guidance on complex HR casework
• Manage disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence management and performance-related cases
• Support and guide managers through investigations, hearings and appeals
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation, policies and HR best practice
• Advise senior stakeholders on complex and sensitive workforce matters
• Build and maintain effective relationships with managers, employee representatives and trade unions
• Support organisational change and workforce transformation initiatives
• Deliver HR training, coaching and development sessions for managers
• Contribute to policy development, review and implementation
• Monitor and assess risks associated with employee relations cases, escalating where appropriate
• Produce reports, management information and workforce data analysis to support decision-making
• Promote a positive employee relations culture across the organisation

Key Skills & Experience

• Significant Employee Relations experience within a complex organisation
• Strong knowledge of employment law and its practical application
• Experience managing complex disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence and capability cases
• CIPD qualified or equivalent HR experience
• Experience advising senior managers and stakeholders on workforce matters
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills
• Ability to manage a varied and demanding caseload independently
• Strong report writing, investigation and case management experience
• Experience designing and delivering management training
• Ability to work autonomously whilst contributing to a wider HR function
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise competing demands

Desirable Experience

• Previous experience within healthcare, public sector or other highly regulated environments
• Experience working within unionised organisations
• Knowledge of complex terms and conditions frameworks
• Experience supporting organisational change and transformation programmes
• Exposure to job evaluation, workforce planning or workforce transformation initiatives
• Experience working within large, multi-site organisations

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.