HR Lead

HR Lead – Employee Relations – Local Authority – Central London

£550 - £760+ per day (negotiable depending on experience)

Hybrid working available

6 months initial contract – likely to be extended

Job Responsibilities:

* Build and maintain effective, professional and collaborative trade union relationships.

* Create workflows, standard operating procedures and compliance / quality checks that ensure ER is managed effectively, consistently and in line with core policies and legislation.

* Lead and coordinate formal consultation and negotiation activity across the organisation.

* Support major organisational change, transformation and restructuring programmes.

* Work with senior leaders to develop effective employee and industrial relations strategies.

* Ensure compliance with collective consultation requirements and employment legislation.

* Manage the resolution of complex and high level ER issues, disputes and industrial relations matter at pace.

* Provide expert advice to managers and HR colleagues on consultation, negotiation and employee relations.

* Identify organisational risks and opportunities relating to workforce and union relations and be accountable for the plan to manage these.

You must have:

* Significant experience of line managing Trade Unions.

* An experienced trade union negotiator who has significant experience of reaching solutions on matters of dispute.

* The ability to work at pace and with initiative to reduce disputes compliantly in a way that maintains positive relationships with trade unions.

* Experience of working directly within a local authority

Benefits of Working with On-Recruitment:

* Up to a £250 referral bonus for any successful referrals – T’s & C.s apply

* Free DBS Checks

* Access to a wide range of temporary and permanent opportunities
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed