Employee Relations Specialist

Job Title:              Employee Relations Specialist

Location:              Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:    Up to £40,000 + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF61021

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Employee Relations Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As an Employee Relations Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a part in shaping business best practices, as well as working collaboratively with senior colleagues to develop proactive and innovative interventions that will support Babcock in driving forward their people plan.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide advisory guidance and coaching on Employment Law policy (e.g. performance improvement, disciplinaries, grievances, equal opportunities, absence management) to enable managers to deliver good people management practices and ensure consistent and fair decisions and legally compliant processes.

• Build relationships with the wider HR team and escalate significant concerns in your business areas.
• Develop and maintain a good working knowledge of relevant employment law, legislation, and best practice; in order to carry out the role to the highest level.
• Identify more complex employee relations cases and escalate where necessary.
• Act as the lead for absence management; working with line managers to conduct welfare meetings, and find suitable resolutions.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Employee Relations Specialist 

• Have an excellent understanding and knowledge of ER, employment law and relevant legislation, with an awareness of the importance of keeping up to date.
• Have current working experience of operating in a unionised environment and be capable to immerse yourself in company policies and procedures; specifically, HR policies, contracts of employment and their practical application.
• Be commercially and data driven, with a pragmatic and innovative approach to ER whilst delivering proactive direction and solutions, independently and collectively
• Be able to multitask and prioritise your workload, dependant on the needs of the business; all whilst working well under pressure.
• Have current working experience of case management and exposure to the full life cycle of ER cases.

Qualifications for the Employee Relations Specialist 

• CIPD 5 is desirable

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme 
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 18/12/2024

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