Highways England Hiring for HR Senior Advisor – Employee Relations at Birmingham Full Time

National Highways are currently recruiting for an experienced Employee Relations Advisor to join our HR team in Birmingham. Within this role, you will be support Line managers with ER matters, providing advice, guidance and resolutions to difficult situations and employee relations cases, ensuring that National Highways are legally protected and comply with National Highways policies and procedures. You will also be working with Senior HRBPs to embed ER initiatives and enable people managers to take ownership of all people and ER activities.

What you’ll be doing

Leading on a variety of escalated ER cases and issues, using your knowledge in Employee Relations and employment law.

Contribute to the review and delivery of ER policies, materials and guidance to support the delivery of ER services.

Managing multiple ER cases, using and updating the case management system effectively, from receipt of a case through to its conclusion or escalate accordingly.

Work collaboratively with people managers, broadening their capability by supporting employee relations cases to ensure consistent application of HR policies and processed across the business. HR Senior Advisor – Employee Relations will be expected to deliver a high quality, customer and business focused and professional advice on all Employee Relations matters including disciplinary, grievance, performance, attendance cases and ER concerns.

Contribute to the delivery of the Employee Relations Strategy and plan throughout the business.

Proactively represent Employee Relations and support Senior HRBP’s within directorates acting as role models for the organisational values and behaviours.

Working collaboratively with Senior HRBP’s by coaching and mentoring people managers, helping them understand how best to deliver Employee Relations services to all employees.

To be successful

Qualified up to Level 5 CIPD

End-to-end Core HR and ER Casework experience

Up to date knowledge of employment laws

Strong stakeholder management

Knowledge of governance guidelines, compliance and regulatory requirements

Excellent communication, advisory and coaching skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with people managers and employees within the business

A bit about us

Our role in Human Resources is to support, develop and nurture our people so that we can all achieve our full potential. By providing our people with the right skills and knowledge we are enabling the business to meet the daily demands we face supporting delivery of our corporate plan and connecting the country. We champion our values of safety, integrity, passion, ownership and teamwork