Employee Relations & Experience Specialist Department: Human Resources Salary: Starting from £38,249, rising to £45,413 Closing date: Tuesday 06 May 2025 Working directly to the Deputy Director (HR Services) this vital and rewarding role provides the perfect opportunity for the next step in your HR career. In this role you will be helping to build our distinctive and positive employee relation practice that builds great employee experience by fulfilling the University's culture of trust and care for each other. This in turn ensures that we deliver our Employee Value Proposition for all our staff. You will be responsible for providing specialist advice and assistance and developing, reviewing and improving our employee relations policies, procedures and guidance and the training and development for our line managers so they have the knowledge and skills to manage our employees positively and respectfully and effectively. This responsibility includes the application of the Universitys Resolution Framework and Support & Report Portal, which the University has developed in partnership with the TCM Group. This innovative approach was recognised with an award at the 2024 Business Culture Awards and enables the University to make positive resolution-focused interventions to change future behaviour and develop our culture and employee experience. Further information To be successful in this role you will need to have a strong and up-to-date knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice and their practical application, allied to excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the resilience and drive to continuously innovate and improve all that we do as an HR service. You will be joining a talented, encouraging and positive HR Business Partnering and Advisory team. For an informal discussion about the role please contact Peter Eley, Deputy Director (HR Services), however, please submit your application via the University website. What we can offer you - a very generous employer contributory pension scheme - generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance - we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements - an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce - a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities - a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan. Find out more about our benefits on our website. We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment. We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us UniofBath and UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information. ADZN1_UKTJ