What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate with managers, unions, HR, legal services, and partners to deliver effective employee relations support.
- Resolve conflicts, ensure policy compliance, and advocate for employees and managers.
- Provide expert advice on employee relations, ensuring consistency across the Council.
- Manage Employee Relation (ER) cases, monitor progress, and ensure compliance with legal standards.
- Support HRBP strategies aligned with directorate and Council objectives.
- Empower managers to improve people management, performance, and retention.
- Serve as an expert on ER policies, working with legal services and unions to resolve cases.
- Handle complex ER cases, ensuring timely resolution and effective communication.
- Use data insights to identify trends and recommend proactive solutions.
- Offer tailored guidance on staffing issues to foster a positive workplace culture.
How will you make an impact:
- A skilled professional with extensive experience in employee relations, case management, and conflict resolution ideally gained in public sector.
- Level 5 CIPD qualification or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
- A proactive communicator who thrives in collaborative environments, working with diverse stakeholders.
- A strategic thinker who uses data to drive meaningful recommendations and high-quality outcomes.
- A confident decision-maker who can balance legal compliance with practical, people-focused solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to align Employee Relations with strategic ER goals, making a tangible impact.
- You will be discrete and able to deal with sensitive and confidential information professionally, as well as a high degree of attention to detail.
- A focus on continuous improvement, have a growth mindset and a collaborative, can-do attitude.
- Enjoy a balanced approach with flexible home working, alongside occasional travel to our London Bridge HQ.
Additional salary details
Are you passionate about fostering positive workplace relationships and navigating complex employee relations? Southwark Council is seeking a dynamic Employee Relations case Advisor to join our HR team and make a real difference in supporting our workforce. Southwark is a borough that thrives on diversity, confidence, and ambition. With over 120 languages spoken and a young, multi-cultural population, we are committed to delivering a fairer future for all.
You'll be an integral part of a team focused on fostering positive Employee Relations and contributing to a supportive and efficient work environment. The role focuses on being employee-centric, prioritising the employee experience across all levels of the Council to achieve positive outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to take the next step in their career. You'll have the chance to grow your skills, make a meaningful impact, and be part of a dynamic team dedicated to success.
About Southwark
As a council, we are successful, passionate, and forward thinking. We are committed to tackling injustice and inequalities and rebuilding our local economy following the pandemic, ensuring that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do.
As a diverse central London borough, Southwark faces a range of challenges, which we aim to address through the delivery of the Borough Plan. We are looking for candidates to join our team to help us continue to make Southwark an inclusive borough for all our communities.
Southwark Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We monitor our recruitment practices to check that we are employing people in a fair and non-discriminatory way. We also publish annual workforce reports. We are proud to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of our borough.
Benefits and more information
Working for Southwark Council – Southwark
Salary Range: £44,430 - £51,663
Recruitment timetable
Application Closing Date: 11.59pm on the 4th of February 2025
Interview Date: The 12th of February 2025 at our London Bridge Offices.
Application Process:
If you are interested in applying for this role, please submit a CV and complete the application forms detailing your suitability for the role. The Job Description and Person Specification can also be found at the bottom of this page under attachments.
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative.
We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian, and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care or have previously been in care.
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, in which case we will move the key dates for the process. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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