HR Lead

HR Lead – Employee Relations – Local Authority – Central London

£550 - £760+ per day (negotiable depending on experience)

Hybrid working available

6 months initial contract – likely to be extended

Job Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain effective, professional and collaborative trade union relationships.
• Create workflows, standard operating procedures and compliance / quality checks that ensure ER is managed effectively, consistently and in line with core policies and legislation.
• Lead and coordinate formal consultation and negotiation activity across the organisation.
• Support major organisational change, transformation and restructuring programmes.
• Work with senior leaders to develop effective employee and industrial relations strategies.
• Ensure compliance with collective consultation requirements and employment legislation.
• Manage the resolution of complex and high level ER issues, disputes and industrial relations matter at pace.
• Provide expert advice to managers and HR colleagues on consultation, negotiation and employee relations.
• Identify organisational risks and opportunities relating to workforce and union relations and be accountable for the plan to manage these.

You must have:

• Significant experience of line managing Trade Unions.
• An experienced trade union negotiator who has significant experience of reaching solutions on matters of dispute.
• The ability to work at pace and with initiative to reduce disputes compliantly in a way that maintains positive relationships with trade unions.
• Experience of working directly within a local authority

Benefits of Working with On-Recruitment:

• Up to a £250 referral bonus for any successful referrals – T’s & C.s apply
• Free DBS Checks
• Access to a wide range of temporary and permanent opportunities