Job summary

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE

+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for an Employee Relations Manager to join Health in Justice at Practice Plus Group.

This role is predominantly home based, however there will be occasional travel to sites and London or Theale for meetings.

This is a senior HR role responsible for leading the employee relations function across the service. You will focus on managing complex employment matters, ensuring legal compliance, supporting organisational change, developing managers, and leading a team of Employee Relations Advisers. You will play a key role in promoting workforce stability, staff wellbeing, and effective people management while working in this role.

Salary & Hours

This position is full time, working 37.5 hours per week and you will receive an annual salary of £50,000 - £55,000 per annum, plus £4,000 car allowance. You will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus of 10%.

How will we support you?

Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course

Competency framework

Regional and national career development opportunities

Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs

Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks

Main duties of the job

As the Employee Relations Manager your responsibilities will vary. You will:

• Lead and manage the Employee Relations team (2 x Advisors).
• Coach and support Employee Relations Advisers
• Allocate and oversee casework and workloads.
• Monitor service standards and performance.
• Complex Employee Relations Case Management
• Provide expert advice on challenging and sensitive employee relations issues.
• Oversee disciplinary, grievance, capability, attendance, probation, conduct, and conflict cases.
• Personally manage high-risk or complex cases.
• Support Employment Tribunal claims and ACAS Early Conciliation cases.
• Ensure HR policies remain compliant with legislation and best practice.
• Support restructures, redundancies, TUPE transfers, and service redesign projects.
• Assess and manage employee relations risks during change processes.
• Support mobilisation and demobilisation of contracts.
• Coach managers on people management issues.
• Deliver employee relations training.
• Promote proactive and informal resolution of workplace issues.
• Analyse trends in:

Sickness absence

Disciplinary cases

Grievances

Tribunal claims

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

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About us

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 60 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. Were the UKs leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Groups purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Qualifications, skills and experience required:

CIPD Level 7 qualification

Significant experience in:

• Employee Relations, HR Business Partnering, or HR Management roles.
• Managing complex employee relations cases.
• Handling organisational risk and sensitive workforce issues.
• Supporting Employment Tribunal claims and ACAS processes.
• Advising senior leaders on employment law and workforce matters.
• Delivering organisational change programmes.
• Working in a complex and regulated environment.
• Leadership and people management.
• Stakeholder management.