ER Specialist
Eversheds Sutherland
- Leeds
- Contract
- Full-time
- ER case management including wellbeing issues, short and long term sickness management, probationary periods, performance management, settlement agreements, conduct, grievances, flexible working etc.
- Managing high volume and complex ER cases from inception to completion giving guidance to the relevant stakeholders throughout
- Conducting investigations and other meetings
- Providing support at formal and informal meetings and hearings
- Ensuring decisions are accurately captured, recorded and processed
- Building stakeholder relationships throughout the process (senior management and HRBPs)
- Escalating higher risk cases to employment lawyers and senior HR leadership team
- Following internal processes, ACAS codes of practice and best practice approaches
- Managing more complex ER projects such as redundancy, TUPE, changes to Terms and Conditions of Employment:
- Developing and overseeing the project plan
- Writing communications to stakeholders, affected colleagues
- Managing collective and individual consultation processes, chairing meetings
- Ensuring legal obligations are met in such processes
- Providing an advisory service to HRBP's and the business on ER related matters
- Working closely with other teams within HR (such as HR Operations, Payroll, HRBPs) to streamline processes, ensure consistency and maintain effective cross team communications
- Supporting the Senior ER Manager with ER related projects and continuous improvement initiatives such as policy development and procedure updates, ER training for line managers
- CIPD level 5 minimum (or equivalent in experience) or working towards but with minimum level 3 achieved
- Will have extensive experience in an ER case management role - 3 years (approx.)
- Excellent UK employment law knowledge particularly unfair dismissal and discrimination
- Ability to balance legal and commercial risk
- Prioritisation skills - must be able to manage a heavy case load and prioritise well
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - must be able to articulate to (and influence) senior lawyers, managers and directors on legal and commercial risk, options and recommendations
- Confident enough to challenge constructively, combined with a level of resilience
- We're fair, transparent and equitable
- We share in the success of the firm, reward alignment to our values, going above and beyond and your individual performance
- We support flexible ways of working through our remote working policy and commitment to flexible, agile and hybrid ways of working
- We support your health and performance through our dental, healthcare and wellness support
- We support everything you are and all you bring through our powerful commitment to diversity and inclusion
- We provide a platform for your career, whatever your ambitions through our structured professional and personal training, mentoring and development programs
- We provide experience and opportunity through international and cross-function exposure
- We provide an opportunity to give back through our pro bono work and community engagement
- We help you plan ahead through retirement planning, insurance and assurance