Employee Relations Advisor

Job Description

The Service & Team:

Cornwall Council is committed to delivering outstanding services for supporting stable and inclusive communities in Cornwall. At the heart of our organisation lies our communities and our people. Our employees make an incredible difference to people’s lives across Cornwall every day through the services we provide, and our HR colleagues are key players in creating the best workforce to make this happen.

Our Employee Relations Team provide a highly valued and respected HR service for managers and leaders in dealing with employment-related casework, enabling the best management practices through a fair and balanced approach to employment matters.

The Role:

An opportunity for an Employee Relations Adviser has arisen in our Employee Relations Team. This is an excellent opening for an HR professional looking to develop advanced skills, knowledge and experience in people management. This role has a strong operational focus, working with different specialists. This provides a great opportunity to work across a varied range of HR specialisms.

Key activities involve the role supporting and advising on employment matters, contributing to the delivery of people management training for managers, advising on a varied caseload across the full range of employment processes, and contributing to employment policy and practice developments. The role will require diligence and close interpretation of process, legislation, guidance and best practice in employment processes - good experience of employment case work is essential. The ability to work collaboratively with colleagues is a key feature to the success of the role, holding professional and trusted relationships with managers, specialists and employee representatives.

What you’ll need to succeed:

In order to be successful in this role, you will need to be highly self-motivated and accustomed to working proactively and autonomously. You will demonstrate the following:

• CIPD or equivalent with appropriate post-qualification experience.
• Knowledge of employment legislation, regulations and best practice.
• Experience in interpreting and advising on complicated employment situations.
• Analytical skills including the ability to critically analyse information
• A collaborative, team working ethic with the ability to build good and trusted relationships with colleagues.

Working Pattern:This is a Hybrid working role and Thursday will be the normal office attendance day.Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What you’ll get in return:Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• a national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services

Additional Information:Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Liz Sandland - liz.sandland@cornwall.gov.uk
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process.Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

We recognise that you may choose to use AI tools when preparing your application. We ask that any information you include is an accurate reflection of your own skills, knowledge, experience and achievements. You may be asked to discuss the examples and evidence you provide during the selection process.

We may adapt our shortlisting approach where we receive a high volume of applications. Any shortlisting decisions will be based on the information provided in your application and the essential requirements of the role.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.

About us

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.