Employee Relations Lead

Salary: 85900

Closing date: 27thNovember

Contract type:Permanent

Interview dates: W/C 8thDecember

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science leading policy and advocacy campaigns and building partnerships.

We plan to spend 16bn over the next ten years funding new discoveries in life health and wellbeing and taking on three global health challenges: mental health infectious disease and climate and health.

These challenges need the bold science we support but they wont be solved by science alone.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Employee Relations Lead to help shape and execute the Employee Relations strategy within Wellcome.

Where will I be working

Reporting into the Head of People Operations you will be an integral part of our People team playing an active role in helping develop and implement the plans enabling Wellcome to become the best place to work in support of the delivery of the mission

What will I be doing

As the Employee Relations Lead you will handle complex employee relations cases build and nurture partnerships with our staff forum and union project manage all organisational structural change processes and lead a team of Employee Relations Managers to ensure the alignment of Employee Relations activities across the organisation

You can view the full job description on our website

To apply for this role please submit an up-to-date CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role. The minimum requirements of the role are:

• Exceptional leadership and team management skills with a track record of leading ER teams successfully.

• Proven experience in employee relations management within a complex organisational structure including substantial experience in handling complex cases including management of cases going through to Employment Tribunal

• Extensive IR experience managing internal staff forums and union relationships

• Experience or leading large scale structural change programmes and TUPE

• Strong understanding of UK employment law

You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on ourwebsite

Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment in which people can perform at their best.

At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair andinclusiveenvironment where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includesmaking adjustmentsfor people who have a disability or long-term visit our websitefor more information on adjustments and accessibility or contact us

Upon a conditional offer being made the successful applicant for this position will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (or equivalent) criminal record check to disclose any unspent criminal convictions or conditional cautions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The criminal record check with not show anything that is spent.

For further guidance on disclosure of criminal records please see thisUK Government Guidance. You can view our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offendershere. You can view our Privacy Statementhere.

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