Employee Relations Advisor

The College is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. 

The Leicestershire College is seeking an enthusiastic, conscientious and flexible Employee Relations Advisor to join its busy Human Resources team.

The successful candidate will have previous experience of providing advice and guidance to managers and employees on ER related issues. You will be the key HR support for employee relations and ensure that any issues are handled in accordance with policies, procedures and employment legislation. You will have performance management experience and verbatim notetaking experience is essential. 

You will also lead on employee experience duties such as supporting and embedding diversity and inclusion alongside facilitating and organising CPD and learning and development related activities such as the annual College conference and health and wellbeing events. 

This is a great opportunity for an experienced HR professional to take a step up in their HR career and develop their skills, knowledge and experience as part of a small, but very supportive team. 

To be considered for this position you will already have a recognised HR qualification as well as Maths and English GCSE passes (or equivalent).

The Leicestershire College is a great place to work and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We are and have consistently invested in providing our learners and employees with an outstanding and unrivalled range of modern facilities and resources. We are proud to follow our FREDIE values, which means Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement.

We are proud to have achieved the Investor in Diversity award. We actively encourage applications who are current under-represented and where we are using positive action under the Equality Act. We welcome everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey. The College is striving to attract, develop and retain the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised.

Alongside our commitment to your professional and personal development, we also offer a generous benefits package including:

• Up to 25 days annual leave per year with option to purchase additional days
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme – offer all employees access to a positive, preventative programme of information, helpful resources, referrals, counselling, training and services to help you cope with events and issues in your everyday work and personal life
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and adoption pay 
• Fantastic CPD and inclusive resources for development
• Well-being hours 
• Opportunities of volunteering within local community and charities
• A competitive pension scheme
• On-site parking
• One campus facility 
• Subsidised nursery fees

We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, agile working, staff forums, staff working groups for sustainability, staff steering groups for Investors in Diversity and support services to support with mental health and wellbeing for staff from different backgrounds.

We are and have consistently invested in providing our learners and employees with an outstanding and unrivalled range of modern facilities and resources.

The successful candidate will be employed by The Leicestershire College a subsidiary company of Loughborough College. The terms and conditions of employment offered by the Leicestershire College are different to those of Loughborough College. Please note that employees of the Leicestershire College are based at Loughborough College.

Due to the limits put upon sponsorship allocations, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship to candidates for this role. This remains under review