Head of Employee Relations and Policy
| Posting date: | 17 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £62,215.00 to £72,293.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £62215.00 - £72293.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 May 2025 |
| Location: | Woolwich, SE18 4QH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9197-25-0384 |
Summary
To advise and support senior managers regarding Trust employee relations policy and practice; inform senior managers of the latest trends, economic circumstances, laws and political factors that must be understood and considered in order to maintain optimum employee relations in the Trust. To utilise, develop and maintain expert knowledge to advise managers in highly complex situations in support of their responsibilities and capacity to fulfil Trust and national HR strategy and effective HR practice, and to provide recommendations on the way forward where no precedent exists or options conflict. To assess, analyse and understand highly complex, sensitive and contentious employee relations cases, providing advice to managers and the Trust on the appropriate actions to be taken. To present information relating to these employee relations cases and to highly complex HR issues to senior management, influencing and persuading them as appropriate. To support managers in the management of highly complex employee relations issues, both individual and collective, and the associated communication with staff, consulting and liaising with trade union representatives as necessary. To act as a panel member in dismissals and appeals, including MHPS cases and attend Employment Tribunals in support of the Trusts case, giving witness evidence as appropriate. To liaise and support the Medical Director and Deputy Medical Director to ensure best practice in relation to Medical workforce employee relations processes being managed under the MHPS framework. To assist in the development and maintenance of employee relations tools, including on-line HR support, to underpin the skill and competencies of managers in managing staff. To interpret and assess developing national and local NHS HR strategy and employment law at an early stage and recommend courses of action to senior managers of the risks and benefits realisation to the Trust. Working with the Associate Director of Workforce to devise and implement fair and equitable employment policies, procedures and practices, including the education and awareness raising to managers and staff and reflective of developing employment law and transformational HR practice. Ensuring that workforce policies and processes are interpreted effectively across the Employee Relations service and that service provision and advice is consistent across Divisions and departments through the development of standard operating procedures for the team. To ensure joint working with other organisations to identify and implement best practice and achieve an added value environment. To engage with Staff Side and accredited representatives and ensure a proactive and stable employee relations environment that is inclusive and secures the engagement of the workforce as a whole. To establish and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the workforce relations team, producing reports as required, ensuring that performance is maintained at a high standard. To devise and operate appropriate mechanisms that enable managers to feed back on the performance of the service and for the service to undertake proper audit for scrutiny. To ensure the provision of employee relations data that underpin local management of employment issues and Trust-wide understanding of trends and key issues To provide expert advice and support for the Trust at Employment Tribunals and in related legal matters, including advocacy for the Trust as required, drafting of correspondence and settlement of remedies.