Employee Relations Specialist - Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - Shaw Education Trust

Shaw Education Trust

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Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Location:
Hybrid, mix of home working, SET Head Office (at Kidsgrove Secondary School) with travel to schools on a weekly basis

We have an exciting opportunity for an Employee Relations Manager to joins our Regional People Team at Shaw Education Trust's working across a cluster of academies within the Midlands, East Midlands and North West.

Reporting into the Head of HR you will be working closely with our academies, to provide advise and guidance on a broad range of employee topics, Including case management of complex ER issues, supporting the Head of HR with Employments Tribunals or ACAS conciliation processes, change management projects and to develop and coach our Leaders in academies who can support ER cases at investigations, disciplinary and appeal stages.

We are looking for a highly organised and structured individual with effective complex management skill.

You will have experience of HR, ideally specifically within an Employee Relations role in a unionised environment and ahve extensive knowledge of UK employment legislation.

You'll also be flexible to the changing requirements of the organisation and provide a challenging approach where required. Familiarity with educational issues would naturally be useful, but your interpersonal, conflict resolution and influencing skills will be of far more important

At Shaw Education Trust we want to transform education, performance and lives, and we give all colleagues the very best support and development with their careers across our network of academies.

A not-for-profit trust, we focus on our students' interests in everything we do, and we are passionate about using innovative technology to accelerate learning.

We work inclusively within our communities, embracing the varied localities we serve while sharing our common vision and values.

Salary:
SET Grade 9 SCP 3- SCP 39, £36,649 - £40,221

SHAW EDUCATION TRUST was established in 2014 and is sponsored by Shaw Trust and is a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities.

Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.

Unlike other MATs, we don't enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow.

Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.

To achieve this, we pledge an unswerving commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all our students, and provide our schools with the support they need to deliver the highest possible quality of education.

Every action we take as a Trust is guided by our core values, with the best interest of our students and staff members at the heart of everything we do.

Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)

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Support Staff only based on working full time, all year

Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (
37 days holiday
rising to 39 days after 5 years' service including Bank Holidays)
Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
Cycle to work scheme
Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you
grow, contribute and
flourish in your role and in the Trust.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV's alone will not be accepted.

Application deadline: 10th August 2023

Interview date:
TBC

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Benefits: