Job Title: Employee Relations Casework Advisor
Location: Boscombe Down, Salisbury or Farnborough
Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Fixed Term Contract - 6 Months
Role ID: SF17451

The Role
The role of an Employee Relations (ER) Casework Advisor is challenging, varied and fascinating with no two days being the same. You will be an integral part of a small team within our People Function who focus solely on supporting functional managers across our UK sites with managing ER issues. You will provide advice and guidance on ER cases such as performance, absence, disciplinaries, grievances and investigations, ultimately developing functional manager capability and confidence.

We are looking for someone who is resourceful, has a friendly approach and a 'can do' attitude, who wants to make a real difference by inspiring and empowering managers to make positive improvements in culture and behaviour of their teams.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Deliver timely ER advice and guidance to empower functional managers to proactively manage their ER cases, within an acceptable level of business risk
• Coach, support and upskill functional managers in order to develop ER capability within the company
• Work collaboratively with Senior People Advisors and in-house Legal team to resolve complex ER cases
• Identify trends in cases in order to design, deliver and implement upskilling sessions for functional managers
• Continually review our People Instructions, Toolkits and Knowledge Guides to ensure we remain up to date with legislative changes and good practice
• Maintain accurate and up to date records of all actions and documentation relating to cases being managed through to conclusion
• Ensure the ER casework team mailbox is regularly reviewed and enquiries responded to in a timely manner, usually within 24hrs

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week where you will work on a hybrid basis, you will working on site two days per week and the rest from home.

Experience of the Employee Relations Casework Advisor:

• Significant experience of managing high volumes of complex ER cases at pace
• Demonstrable experience of upskilling functional managers to improve knowledge, competence and confidence and mentoring of junior team members
• Experience of working in complex organisations or with complex technology

Qualifications of the Employee Relations Casework Advisor :

• Chartered CIPD status or equivalent

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
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Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave.
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community.

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those, which help the defence community.

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.