Employee and Industrial Relations HR Business - London, United Kingdom - ICTS

ICTS

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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L OCATION - National Role (London based)

P OSITION - Employee and Industrial Relations HR Business Partner

REPORTINGTO - HR Manager

As an Employee and Industrial Relations HR Business Partner, you will be responsible for fostering effective working relationships with all recognised Trade Unions within the Aviation and Corporate business sectors.

You will also be part of the negotiationteam in respect of pay negotiations conducted with recognised Trade Unions, throughout the business.

You will be responsible for ensuring that all Employee Relations matters are dealt with in a timely manner, and will manage ACAS Early Conciliation claims, Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunals, Work Relation Commission and Employment Appeal Tribunalclaims (Republic of Ireland), and Labour Relations Agency and Industrial Tribunal in Northern Ireland.

KEYTASKAREAS/RESPONSIBILITIES

Management of ACAS Early Conciliation, Employment Tribunal, and Employment Appeal Tribunal claims brought against the organisation.
Management of Work Relations Commission, Employment Appeal Tribunal claims, Industrial Tribunal and Labour

Relations Agency claims brought against the organisation in the Republic of Ireland.

Offer escalated support to HR support officers in respect of technical or complex employee relations matters.
Ensure that the HR support officers are properly equipped with the relevant knowledge in order to upskill local managers in respect of employment law matters.
Build and foster working relationships with all recognised Trade Unions, across all business sectors, including

(But not limited to) GMB, Unite and Unison.

Build and develop strong relationships with all stakeholders including HR, Operational Management and Senior

Leadership teams to regularly engage with them on service delivery.

Provide support, guidance, advice and coaching to Operational Management teams on all matters relating to

Employee Relations to enable compliance in all areas of employment policy and legislation

Drive HR productivity to maximise performance whilst ensuring standards are adhered to through a culture of continuous improvement.
Proactively contribute to the development of future requirements, policies, working practices and procedures and to maintain a working knowledge of current legislation and policy at national and local levels.
Utilise key HR Management information to develop strategic initiatives that support the wider business and functional strategy.
Carry a degree of responsibility in respect of 'financial' exposure to the business to identify and coordinate mitigating activity: for example (but not limited to) long term and shortterm sickness absence, suspension, turnover and retention.
Ensure best practice is adhered to at all times which is sound and commercially viable.
Support the implementation of HR initiative to include Employee Engagement, Talent & Succession and

Performance Management.

Identify and communicate as appropriate, areas of concern relating to HR issues.
Develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external customers.
Provide advice and guidance on TUPE transfers and restructuring.
Assist the Projects HR Business partner to undertake HR related projects and assignments as may be required.
To carry out any other duties required by the business within the scope of the role.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills to be able to build relationships and deal confidently and effectively with people at all levels across the organization and able to achieve effective results
Strong analytical and problemsolving skills to identify improvement opportunities.
A logical and process focused mindset.
A resilient and robust nature with the ability to manage pressure and meet multiple deadlines.
An autonomous selfstarter who will take ownership for workload and projects.
Experience in managing and implementing employee relations strategies across a multisite business.
Must be able to demonstrate an aptitude for a wide range of HR disciplines and be able to adapt to situations by using sound commercial and practical HR advice in a timely manner.
Previous exposure to high level Trade Union relationships and negotiations with persuasive personality conducive to

building and fostering relationships with Trade Unions whilst also achieving results

Competent level of IT skills (Excel/Power point/Word) to a level that will allow the post holder to proficiently operate and interrogate data to produce concise, factual and detailed highquality reports and MI.
A strong generalist HR knowledge of Talent, Reward, ER and Performance Management, L&D and Coaching & Mentoring with the capability to challenge and interpret policies and procedures.
Demonstrable understanding and resolution to reduce staff turnover/retention within the business.
Experience of developing and implementing complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
Previous experience working within a multisite, multisector organisation.
Ability to present logical argument and influence senior stakeholders and operational leads within organisations.
A strong ER Specialist with the capability to challenge and interpret policies and procedures.
Excellent knowledge of employment legislation and case law and experience managing Employment Tribunal claims.