Employee Relations Specialist
About the Role
We’re looking for an Employee Relations (ER) Specialist to join our growing ER team. In this role, you’ll provide high quality support to our clients, working alongside the People Partnering team to offer expert advice and guidance on all things related to employee relations and workplace change. You’ll be applying your knowledge of employment law to a variety of real-world situations.
Your main focus will be to handle ER cases efficiently, ensuring they’re managed in a way that’s both commercially smart and fully compliant, so our clients feel confident and well-supported when dealing with tricky ER issues.
We think this is a super exciting role. Your responsibilities will be many and varied, but never boring. Here’s a brief summary of your day to day role:
- Confidently investigate and advise on a variety of complex ER cases—like grievances, disciplinaries, whistleblowing, and harassment—so our clients can achieve the best outcomes possible.
- Provide expert guidance and lead on business change processes, including redundancy, restructuring and TUPE, helping clients navigate these processes in a way that’s both commercially sound and legally compliant.
- Quality review work from the People Partnering team to make sure everything is accurate and of the highest standard.
- Create clear and transparent policies, procedures, and employment contracts.
- Attend or chair client meetings to provide hands-on support when needed.
- Produce a variety of documents, including everything from invite letters and scripts to detailed reports and employee handbooks.
- Get advice from experts outside the company when needed to make sure our work is always thorough, accurate, and legally sound.
- Share your knowledge and help create internal resources so our People Partnering team has everything they need to deliver a brilliant service to our clients.
- Stay on top of the latest changes in employment law and tribunal cases to keep your expertise fresh and up-to-date.
About Fitzgerald
We’re the full-service HR consultancy that synchronises seamlessly with our clients’ businesses. An outsourced team that feels like an in-house superpower.
We think that expert guidance on how to recruit, retain, develop and lead people should be available to every business, big or small. Because the right advice at the right time, from the right specialist, can be game-changing.
We’re here to make those conversations happen. We help our clients to recruit, manage and retain the best people for their organisations, whether as a one-off project or an ongoing service. The work we do with them enables them to create a culture where everyone can bring the best version of themselves to work.
Ultimately, people are the foundation of our clients’ success and we think they can be amazing if they’re given the right environment and support. Together, we help our clients create a great place to work and make sure they’re ready to conquer their corner of the world.
We know that even in the best of workplaces, difficult employee issues arise. We help our clients face these challenges, simplify the complex, and handle everything with care and consideration for their people and culture.
We eat, sleep and breathe this stuff. From people strategy to HR admin, we’re here to help – whether it’s a people team needing additional resource, or a business wanting to outsource their HR. However they need us we’ll be there: on call, or on site, whatever works best for them.
We’re on a mission to show brilliant companies what happens when they hire really smart people (that’s us) to help them be the very best employers they can be. The only thing we can’t handle? Letting our clients down.
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