Employee Relations Partner

Starting salary:52150
Contract type:2 year fixed term contract
Grade:5
Location:Longmore House Edinburgh with hybrid working
Working Hours:35 hours per week Monday - Friday

In this role you will partner with key stakeholders to create innovative people solutions and use data to proactively spot and address trends. Youll align employee relations and policy work with wider initiatives in wellbeing engagement and leadership development to help make Historic Environment Scotland (HES) an inclusive safe and engaging place to work. You will also ensure employee relations matters are handled quickly effectively and compassionately in full alignment with policies and procedures.

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Benefits of joining us at Historic Environment Scotland

• Enrolment onto a Civil Service Pension scheme 28% employer contribution

• 25 days annual leave pro-rata (increasing to 30 days after 3 years) 11.5 public holidays

• Reimbursement for relevant professional subscriptions

• Support for further education and personal development

• Study leave for work related courses

• Flexible working hours (where appropriate)

• Free entry to all of our properties (with up to three guests)

• Free entry to English Heritage Manx and Cadw properties

Key Responsibilities of this role

• Responsible for ensuring the delivery of excellent Human Resources (HR) operational service to employees and line managers including senior leaders.

• Adopt a coaching approach when providing advice on Employee Relations (ER) matters including assessing different options whilst presenting the benefits and challenges of each.

• Ensure all ER cases across HES are managed according to Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

• Responsible for implementing appropriate SLAs for the team

• Ensure consistent risk-based advice and guidance is given to line managers to enable them to manage their people in a fair and transparent way reviewing the data with the People Partner and the Head of People Services to ensure the right interventions and upskilling across core populations.

• Provide skilled risk-based and environmentally aware advice in more complex ER cases and act as the escalation point for the HR team. Will act as the main contact for more complicated and senior employee cases.

• Lead on People Policy reviews ensuring key stakeholders and colleagues are included and engaged throughout the process including consultation with the Trade Unions.

• Ensure regular reviews take place on all People Policies to ensure legislation requirements are met including engaging with HES legal team for advice and support.

• Lead on ensuring advice guidance and policy development is inclusive accessible and that a key focus is on equality for colleagues.

• Work closely with the People and Wellbeing & Engagement Partners to analyse quarterly Management Information (MI) and assist in implementation of People and Wellbeing related recommendations across all Directorates including supporting both in Culture Reviews where required.

Key Requirements of the role:

In order for you to be successful in this post we will be looking for you to submit a cover letter which addresses how you can meet each of the essential and desirable criteria (in up to 1200 words) using examples of where you have demonstrated these criteria previously. Please ensure that you provide real life examples for each of the criteria to be considered for this post. You can use examples of how you have met this criteria from your work life home life education or volunteer experience.Please read ourCV and Cover Letter Guidancefirst before completing as you will only be eligible for selection if you use examples of how you meet the essential and desirable criteria.

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience of the working within the principles and practices of employee relations.

• An in-depth knowledge and application of UK employment law and regulations with experience of making risk-based decisions

• Experience of policy development and maintenance where the employee experience is at the heart of decision making

• Experience of working with Trade Unions including consultation and negotiation

• Experience of leading a team and managing workload to meet demands from stakeholders and strategic people projects.

• Proven line management experience with demonstrable experience of managing workload to meet demands from stakeholders and strategic people projects.

• Evidence of having difficult conversations is essential ideally in complex circumstances

• Experience with working in complex organisations with multi-disciplines ideally with experience in the public sector

• Demonstrable experience of managing a complex workload to deliver outcomes accordingly.

• SCQF level 9 or equivalent qualifications/experience e.g. a degree in a HR or business management related discipline is essential

• CIPD membership

Find out more aboutdesirableskills and experience in our full job description.

We are dedicated to building a workforce which is reflective of diversity within Scotland. We warmly welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds regardless of age race gender or gender identity religious beliefs marital status sexual orientation disability or support of our Gaelic Language Plan we welcome applications from Gaelic speakers.

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Please note that at this time we are unfortunately unable to provide sponsorship as part of the recruitment process therefore you must have current right to work in the UK to be considered for a post.

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