Location
Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TR

Hours
36 hours per week

Salary
PO3 (£47,262 – £50,676)

Working arrangements
Hybrid

Contract type
Permanent

About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Employee Relations Specialist to join our Human Resources & Organisational Development team. In this role, you will provide expert HR advice and support to managers and employees across a broad range of employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence management, organisational change, redundancy, and conflict resolution. You will coach managers, support complex casework, analyse workforce trends, and help ensure employment legislation, HR policies and best practice are applied consistently across the organisation. You will also contribute to manager development through the delivery of training, workshops and guidance.

About the Team
The Employee Relations team plays a vital role in supporting the organisation to build a positive, fair and high-performing workplace culture. Working closely with senior leaders, managers, trade unions, legal services, occupational health and a range of internal and external stakeholders, the team provides strategic and operational HR expertise on complex people matters. As part of a collaborative and professional team, you will have the opportunity to influence organisational outcomes, support change initiatives, and help develop management capability across the council.

About Haringey
Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture. Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

Working for Haringey
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days plus bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Experience
Proven experience managing complex employee relations casework within a large, unionised organisation, ideally in local government or the wider public sector.

About you
You will be a CIPD-qualified HR professional, or hold an equivalent qualification, with a strong understanding of employment law, organisational change, and HR best practice. Excellent communication, influencing and coaching skills are essential. You can build effective relationships quickly, provide pragmatic solutions to challenging people issues, and work confidently in a fast-paced environment while maintaining professionalism, discretion and a commitment to equality, diversity and continuous professional development.

Qualifications
CIPD qualification or equivalent professional HR qualification.