Senior HR Employee Relations Advisor

Description

Our local authority client based in North West London are urgently seeking an experienced Senior HR Employee Relations Advisor.

Role Purpose

The Senior HR Employee Relations Advisor (Sickness Lead) is responsible for leading and delivering effective sickness absence management across the Council. This role provides specialist advice and support to reduce sickness absence levels, implement preventative measures, and ensure consistent application of absence policies and procedures. This role also covers all areas of HR remit including high risk and complex HR issues. The postholder will demonstrate behaviours and competencies to transform the HR service, ensuring it delivers highly effective outcome-focused and proactive support to customers. The Senior HR Employee Relations Advisor (Sickness Lead) will operate within a fast-paced and dynamic environment, supporting the Council’s people initiatives and programme. They will act independently and proactively to ensure knowledge is kept up to date with the latest policy changes and best practice.

Main Duties / Accountabilities

Lead the Council's approach to managing both short and long-term sickness absence, developing strategies to reduce absence levels

Provide specialist advice to managers on complex absence cases, including long-term health conditions, disability-related absence, and stress management as well as complex ER cases

Build excellent working relationships with stakeholders including occupational health providers, managers, and Trade Union officials

Manage complex absence cases to conclusion, including supporting formal procedures, hearings, and appeals

Provide meaningful monthly, quarterly and annual KPI’s / metrics (dashboard) data and reports for the DMTs typically relating to case management records, sickness absence levels (short / long term), head count, turnover etc, identifying trends and patterns with proposed improvement action plans to work towards the relevant performance indicators.

Design and deliver training programs to enhance manager capabilities in absence management

Maintain accurate absence records and documentation, ensuring data protection compliance

Collaborate with HR colleagues to share expertise and best practices

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Demonstrable record of achievement in employee relations, specifically sickness absence casework, TUPE, and strategic and operational human resources projects

Experience of successfully managing employee relations issues in a timely and consistent way in a large organisation

Experience of report writing and communicating complex issues to a broad range of audiences.

Experience in dealing with a range of complex and contentious matters requiring a consistently high degree of support, persuasion and advocacy and an awareness of major policy objectives, employment legislation and regulations.

Please apply with your updated CV ensuring that any gaps in employment are explained.

At this point, may we take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown in this role. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications that we receive, it is not always possible to respond to everyone. Therefore, unless you hear from us within the next 7 days, your application for this vacancy will have been unsuccessful

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