Employee Relations Specialist Fixed Term Contract

To provide professional commercial and specialist employee relations advice and coaching to our people managers and stakeholders across the broader People team and business to deliver business objectives and operational outcomes.  

The SME ensures our people experiences are aligned to our business strategy policies precedents compliance and legislative requirements. As a result knowledge of Threes broader People Policies and processes is also required. 

The ER Specialist manages a variety of complex and high risk cases including disciplinary grievance whistleblowing sickness absence and capability performance appeals early conciliation and Employment Tribunal claims. The role is responsible for the delivery of consultation for business change projects including restructures/redundancy (individual and collective) TUPE (in and out) and changing terms and conditions. This varied role also manages the delivery of ER related projects policy updates and initiatives for continuous improvement. 

What you will be doing in the role.

• Manage highly complex and highrisk cases including; disciplinary grievance sickness capability appeals whistleblowing early conciliation settlement agreements/COT3 and Employment Tribunals.
• Risk assess ER related issues and projects providing clear and viable options for business consideration whilst developing training courses to meet identified needs to improve performance and meet business requirements.  
• Delivery of individual and collective consultation for business change projects across organisation including redundancy TUPE and changes of terms and conditions.
• Effective support buddying and development of the Advisors.  
• Using ER data (including data manipulation on Excel) identify trends/ insights to meet stakeholder needs storytelling and identify opportunities for proactive intervention.
• Identifies shortcomings in existing processes systems and procedures then collaborates with stakeholders to drive continuous improvement.  
• Manage relationships with key internal customers and act as their business partner while typically using support teams to ensure client satisfaction.

Qualifications :

What we are looking for.

• Experience in Employee Relations including the management of complex & highrisk cases.
• Experience in managing consultation requirements for business change projects.
• Experience in identifying assessing and managing risk using excellent communication skills and technical guidance.

Additional Information :

What youll receive in return

• A performance based annual bonus & an additional flexible allowance to spend on additional benefits topping up your pension or to be added to your salary
• Hybrid working between your home 23 days a week) and our Reading office 23 days a week)
• 28 days annual leave 8 bank holidays 3 personal days annually which increases with length of service
• Private Medical Insurance Life Assurance and Income Protection
• Free mobile phone package & unlimited simcard
• .... Plus lots more including wellbeing and learning & development benefits!

Our people make us who we are. Were a diverse and inclusive bunch and its important you can feel you belong here. We value everybody for who they are and what they bring to the table supporting one another as we continue to deliver for our customers.

With that in mind if you do not tick every box in the job advert above there are likely other valuable attributes and skills you have that would make you a great addition for the team. So if you feel this role is for you then please apply! We are committed to equality in employment and growing a diverse workforce. We embrace those of any race gender identity sexual orientation age religion disability marital status family status or civil status and we want our teams to reflect this!

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer. Need any reasonable adjustments Let us know when you apply so we can support you throughout the interview process.

At Three we have a hybrid working arrangement in place as standard for office based employees where employees work from a mix of office based location and working from their home in the UK to carry on their role.

Excluding retail our core hours at Three are between 10:00 and 16:00 with operating hours between 08:00 & 18:30. This allows employees to have a start time between 08:00 and 10:00 and finish time between 16:00 and 18:30.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime