Employee Relations Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for an Employee Relations Manager to join Health in Justice at Practice Plus Group.

This role is predominantly home based, however there will be occasional travel to sites and London or Theale for meetings.

This is a senior HR role responsible for leading the employee relations function across the service. You will focus on managing complex employment matters, ensuring legal compliance, supporting organisational change, developing managers, and leading a team of Employee Relations Advisers. You will play a key role in promoting workforce stability, staff wellbeing, and effective people management while working in this role.

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course

• Competency framework

• Regional and national career development opportunities

• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs

• Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks

As the Employee Relations Manager your responsibilities will vary. You will:

Lead and manage the Employee Relations team (2 x Advisors).

Coach and support Employee Relations Advisers

Allocate and oversee casework and workloads.

Monitor service standards and performance.

Complex Employee Relations Case Management

Provide expert advice on challenging and sensitive employee relations issues.

Oversee disciplinary, grievance, capability, attendance, probation, conduct, and conflict cases.

Personally manage high-risk or complex cases.

Support Employment Tribunal claims and ACAS Early Conciliation cases.

Ensure HR policies remain compliant with legislation and best practice.

Support restructures, redundancies, TUPE transfers, and service redesign projects.

Assess and manage employee relations risks during change processes.

Support mobilisation and demobilisation of contracts.

Coach managers on people management issues.

Deliver employee relations training.

Promote proactive and informal resolution of workplace issues.

Analyse trends in:

Sickness absence

Disciplinary cases

Grievances

Tribunal claims

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

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The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 60 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated

we act with integrity

we embrace diversity

we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.