Our local authority client based in North West London are urgently seeking an experienced Senior HR Employee Relations Advisor.

*£30.93 an hour Umbrella

Role Purpose

The Senior HR Employee Relations Advisor (Sickness Lead) is responsible for leading and delivering effective sickness absence management across the Council. This role provides specialist advice and support to reduce sickness absence levels, implement preventative measures, and ensure consistent application of absence policies and procedures. This role also covers all areas of HR remit including high risk and complex HR issues.

Main Duties / Accountabilities

1. Lead the Council's approach to managing both short and long-term sickness absence, developing strategies to reduce absence levels

2. Provide specialist advice to managers on complex absence cases, including long-term health conditions, disability-related absence, and stress management as well as complex ER cases

3. Build excellent working relationships with stakeholders including occupational health providers, managers, and Trade Union officials

4. Manage complex absence cases to conclusion, including supporting formal procedures, hearings, and appeals

5. Provide meaningful monthly, quarterly and annual KPI’s / metrics (dashboard) data and reports for the DMTs typically relating to case management records, sickness absence levels (short / long term), head count, turnover etc, identifying trends and patterns with proposed improvement action plans to work towards the relevant performance indicators.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

* Demonstrable record of achievement in employee relations, specifically sickness absence casework, TUPE, and strategic and operational human resources projects

* Experience of successfully managing employee relations issues in a timely and consistent way in a large organisation

* Experience of report writing and communicating complex issues to a broad range of audiences.

* Experience in dealing with a range of complex and contentious matters requiring a consistently high degree of support, persuasion and advocacy and an awareness of major policy objectives, employment legislation and regulations.

* An exceptional communicator able to operate and empathise with stakeholders and senior managers, influencing and gaining commitment to objectives and deadlines.

Please apply with your updated CV ensuring that any gaps in employment are explained.

At this point, may we take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown in this role. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications that we receive, it is not always possible to respond to everyone. Therefore, unless you hear from us within the next 7 days, your application for this vacancy will have been unsuccessful