Employee Relations Advisor

Employee Relations Advisor

Location: Home based (with one day per week to central office) Some travel to Aurora Services will also be required

Salary:  £32K - £35k dependent upon experience

Hours:  40hrs per week

The Aurora Group 

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities. 

We’re currently looking for an Employee Relations Advisor to work within the Employee Relations team, support the delivery of an effective and efficient Employee Relations Service across the Group.

The Role: 

Effective and fair management of Employee Relations is an essential part of our commitment to providing quality provision and to the overall Engagement and Wellbeing of our Teams. Due to our exciting and continuing growth we are expanding the employee relations team.

Reporting to our Employee Relations Partner and working collaboratively with the Regional HR Business Partners, you will advise and support our Service Leadership teams with people management issues such as; unplanned absence, probation, grievance, disciplinary and capability.

Additionally; you will support investigating managers to ensure investigations are robust and carried out in a timely manner, supporting regional HR Administrators to ensure hearing documents (letters, papers for hearing, guidance for Chair) are produced to the appropriate standard.

The role will also give you the opportunity to guide, coach and train line managers in the development of their people management skills.

In collaboration with the wider HR teams you will also play a key role in the development and maintenance of HR policies, procedures and toolkits and provide support on the delivery of ER projects.

Experience: 

Successful candidates need to demonstrate: 

• Up to date knowledge of UK employment law, relevant case law and decisions
• High attention to detail and levels of accuracy
• Effective interpersonal skills – both written and verbal
• Ability to coach line managers to enable them to effectively deal with their ER issues
• Ability to build effective and positive relationships with managers across the Group and with external parties such as union representatives 
• An understanding of TUPE legislation

 Whilst the role is home based, candidates will need the ability to travel regularly to our Central office in Twigworth, Gloucester (once a week), and occasionally to our sites across the UK.

Benefits and Additional Information

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Life assurance
• Enhanced Pension
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

How to apply:

To apply please complete our online application form. For a copy of the job description please contact Liz at liz.hudson@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.