This role is for an Employee Relations Specialist who will carry out HR and recruitment duties in a fast-paced healthcare environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a variety of HR tasks and effectively coordinating recruitment activities
Client Details
This organisation is an established entity in the healthcare industry, employing over 3000 dedicated professionals. Located in Birmingham, it is renowned for its commitment to quality care and patient satisfaction.
Description
This Employee Relations Specialist position, will involve the following responsibilities:
- Provide first line advice and guidance on HR policies and procedures.
- Enable managers to reduce sickness absence through pro-active management of long and short-term sickness cases with a person-centred approach as the principal focus.
- Provide efficient and effective employee relations casework management processes including disciplinary, grievance, bullying and harassment, performance and attendance management. Supporting managers, taking part in meetings, formal hearings and producing notes, formal minutes and reports. Ensuring this is compliant with law, policy and good practice.
- Provide recruitment advice and support to managers with general recruitment enquiries.
- Support Senior Management to identify and manage recruitment needs.
- Prepare job descriptions, person specifications and adverts to be recruitment ready.
- Advertise vacancies using various attraction methods to source appropriate candidates.
- Support senior managers with shortlisting, interviewing, candidate selection and ensure that onboarding procedures are carried out within a timely manner to ensure a positive candidate experience.
- Advice and guide line managers to support the process and completion of family friendly policies within policy timeframes.
- Engage with line managers to support employee's personal development needs are met through appraisal completions, inductions, and coaching, mentoring, learning and development interventions.
- Provide a timely response to all enquiries whether received by letter, email or telephone and deal with all enquiries sensitively, effectively and where necessary escalate to the appropriate person to rectify any issues/queries accordingly.
- To ensure that any documentation required for reports are completed within the defined timescales.
- Work with the HR Team to support people management training to up skill managers, and spotting areas for development based on queries received by the HR service.
- To maintain accurate records of all employment related cases and updating department records.
- To maintain effective and efficient office systems and to make recommendations for improvement where appropriate.
- To undertake specific projects and tasks as directed.
- To attend department and team meetings as appropriate.
Profile
A successful Employee Relations Specialist should have:
- An academic background in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
- Proven experience in the HR field, especially in recruitment.
- Adeptness in using HR software and databases.
- Excellent knowledge of employment legislation and regulations.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
Job Offer
- A temporary role with potential for permanency.
- A friendly and supportive team environment.
- Opportunity to work in a rewarding healthcare setting.
- Extensive on-the-job training and development.
We encourage qualified and interested candidates to seize this exciting opportunity in the healthcare industry. Apply now to join our team in Birmingham and embark on a rewarding Employee Relations Specialist role.