Job summary
INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY
Are you a seasoned ER professional with a passion for fostering a fair and supportive workplace?
We are seeking a talented individual to join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in shaping our Trust's employee relations landscape.
In this wide reaching role, you will manage and co-ordinate ER casework for the Trust, from disciplinary matters to grievances, you'll manage diverse cases with a focus on a restorative, just, and learning culture.
You will also be instrumental in:
- Empowering our leaders: Provide expert advice and coaching to managers, equipping them to confidently navigate employee issues and proactively resolve conflict.
- Shaping policy & practice: Contribute to developing and updating our workforce policies, ensuring compliance and responsiveness to organisational needs.
- Providing Impactful ER Training: Sharing best practice and delivering impactful ER training.
- Driving continuous improvement: Interpret workforce data to identify trends, inform actions, and enhance our ER service.
- Building strong partnerships: Working closely with Trade Union representatives to resolve complex matters and develop effective strategies.
If you're a proactive problem-solver with exceptional communication skills and a deep understanding of employment law and application of Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions we want to hear from you! This is your chance to make a tangible difference in the lives of our employees and contribute to a thriving organisational culture.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the role profile, person specification attached which includes the main duties for this position of Employee Relations Manager.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Graduate qualification in relevant HR discipline or
- equivalent experience
- Associate MCIPD
- Evidence of relevant CPD
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Employee Relations management experience
- Experience of advising on very complex employee relations issues
- Experience of supporting managers and staff through significant change processes
- Experience of Employment Tribunal processes
- Experience of working with Trade Unions
- Experience of providing a HR service
- Specialist knowledge in Human Resource Management and employee relations
- Current employment legislation including relevant case law Best practice in people management
- Understanding of national developments in HR within the NHS and how these relate to operational issues
- Computer skills, including data input and interpretation
- Able to establish, maintain and review HR systems and processes
- Ability to understand and interpret best practice and relevant legislation to inform policies and procedures
- Ability to interpret legislation and variety of guidance
- Ability to work under own initiative
- Ability to work in a team and across team boundaries
- Ability to delegate work appropriately
- Excellent organisation and administration skills
- Ability to generate creative ideas for improvements to service and methods of working
- To able to work autonomously, as well a cross with colleagues from different professional background
- Production and analysis of a range of reports (investigations)
Desirable
- Please refer to the role profile attached which includes the person specification for this position of Employee Relations Manager.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Willingness to travel to our site in Huntingdon.
- Flexible approach to working hours
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Graduate qualification in relevant HR discipline or
- equivalent experience
- Associate MCIPD
- Evidence of relevant CPD
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Employee Relations management experience
- Experience of advising on very complex employee relations issues
- Experience of supporting managers and staff through significant change processes
- Experience of Employment Tribunal processes
- Experience of working with Trade Unions
- Experience of providing a HR service
- Specialist knowledge in Human Resource Management and employee relations
- Current employment legislation including relevant case law Best practice in people management
- Understanding of national developments in HR within the NHS and how these relate to operational issues
- Computer skills, including data input and interpretation
- Able to establish, maintain and review HR systems and processes
- Ability to understand and interpret best practice and relevant legislation to inform policies and procedures
- Ability to interpret legislation and variety of guidance
- Ability to work under own initiative
- Ability to work in a team and across team boundaries
- Ability to delegate work appropriately
- Excellent organisation and administration skills
- Ability to generate creative ideas for improvements to service and methods of working
- To able to work autonomously, as well a cross with colleagues from different professional background
- Production and analysis of a range of reports (investigations)
Desirable
- Please refer to the role profile attached which includes the person specification for this position of Employee Relations Manager.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Willingness to travel to our site in Huntingdon.
- Flexible approach to working hours
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
