Employee Relations & Resolution Specialist

About the role

Working directly to the Deputy Director (HR Services) this vital and rewarding role provides the perfect opportunity for the next step in your HR career. In this role you will be helping to build our distinctive, positive and sector-leading employee relations practice that builds great employee experience by fulfilling the University's culture of trust and care for each other. This in turn ensures that we deliver our Employee Value Proposition for all our staff.

You will be responsible for providing specialist advice and assistance and developing, reviewing and improving our employee relations policies, procedures and guidance and the training and development for our line managers so they have the knowledge and skills to manage our employees positively and respectfully and effectively. This responsibility includes the application of the University’s Support & Report Portal and our Resolution Framework, which the University has developed in partnership with the TCM Group. This innovative approach was recognised with an award at the 2024 Business Culture Awards and enables the University to make positive resolution-focused interventions to change future behaviour and develop our culture and employee experience.

You will be joining a talented, encouraging and positive HR Business Partnering and Advisory / Employee Relations team.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to have a strong and up-to-date knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice and their practical application, allied to excellent communication, interpersonal and empathetic skills and the resilience and drive to continuously innovate and improve all that we do as an HR service.

Further Information

This role is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) permanent basis.

To find out more please contact Peter Eley, Deputy Director (HR Services) at ***email_hidden***

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

Find out more about our benefits hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

Be Well at Bath

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Find out more about being at your best at Bath.

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Right to Work in the UK: We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

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