Employee Relations Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves partnering with Clinical Group managers to enhance employee experience and provide expert advice on employee relations. The manager will oversee a proactive case management service, ensuring all matters align with Just Culture principles. Key responsibilities include maintaining positive relationships with staff representatives and interpreting employment law and NHS HR policy. The role also involves developing and implementing HR policies that promote an inclusive Just Culture.
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage a high caseload and competing demands
- Ability to identify key issues and problems in a situation, generating options likely to lead to successful outcomes
- Knowledge of employment law and legislation changes
Desirable criteria
- Ability to gather, analyse, interpret and present data and information
- Experience of providing advice and support to managers and staff on a range of complex employee relations matters (including performance, conduct and HR policies)
- Experience of managing employment tribunal claims
- Experience of working in a unionised environment Strong negotiating and influencing skills
- Experience of managing staff
- Working in the public sector/NHS
- Education and qualifications
- MCIPD or equivalent
- Ability to manage a high caseload and competing demands
- Ability to identify key issues and problems in a situation, generating options likely to lead to successful outcomes
- Knowledge of employment law and legislation changes
- Ability to gather, analyse, interpret and present data and information
- Experience of providing advice and support to managers and staff on a range of complex employee relations matters (including performance, conduct and HR policies)
- Experience of managing employment tribunal claims
- Experience of working in a unionised environment Strong negotiating and influencing skills
- Experience of managing staff
- Working in the public sector/NHS
- Education and qualifications
- MCIPD or equivalent
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 4d ago · Closes in 13d
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Job summary
The role holder will partner with key designated Clinical Group managers to build exceptional working relationships to deliver a seamless service which nurtures and improves the employee experience. Support the Employee Relations team in providing an expert/specialist people relations advisory service to Trust managers and staff ensuring comprehensive, consistent and timely advice and support. Oversee the development and delivery of a leading, proactive case management service which provides for all employee relations matters to be managed in line with Just Culture principles, enabling employees to contribute their very best to the Trust.
To help to maintain positive and constructive relationships between managers and staff representatives at all levels throughout the Trust and actively encourage engagement with staff and their representatives.
Promote a positive partnership with staffside colleagues which actively supports the wider staff engagement agenda for the Trust. Provide timely and effective interpretation of developing employment law and local and national NHS HR policy and procedures. Devise and ensure the implementation of HR policies and procedures that promotes an inclusive Just Culture. To provide expert information underpinned by analysis of trends, economic circumstances, laws and political factors. Working collaboratively with the wider People D
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