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About the Role
This role supports managers with day-to-day people matters, provides employee relations advice, and helps build manager and colleague capability. It's an opportunity for someone who enjoys coaching, improving processes, and creating practical, effective solutions.
Responsibilities
- Provide practical advice and guidance to managers on performance, absence, probation, conduct, wellbeing, and flexible working.
- Support informal and formal employee relations processes, managing lower and medium-complexity cases.
- Coach managers to build their confidence and capability in handling people matters independently.
- Share knowledge with the People Experience team to support colleagues with first-line queries and employee relations matters.
- Develop and improve practical resources, including manager toolkits, templates, guidance, and FAQs.
- Support the design and delivery of manager training, workshops, and communications.
- Identify recurring people queries and challenges to recommend process improvements.
- Help establish clear responsibilities and escalation routes.
- Contribute to wider People & Culture initiatives and projects.
- Ensure advice and processes are consistent with UK employment legislation, organisational policies, and good people practice.
Requirements
- Previous experience in a People Advisor, HR Advisor, or similar generalist HR role.
- Practical understanding of employee relations.
- Genuine interest in helping others develop their skills.
- Practical experience advising managers on employee relations matters, including absence, performance, probation, and conduct.
- Sound working knowledge of UK employment law and its application.
- Experience supporting informal and formal employee relations processes, with the judgement to identify and escalate risks.
- A coaching approach, with experience helping managers develop confidence and skills.
- Experience developing or improving people policies, guidance, templates, toolkits, or processes.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- A collaborative and solutions-focused approach.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and handle sensitive information confidentially.
- A continuous improvement mindset.
- Adaptability and confidence working in a changing environment.
- A CIPD qualification (or equivalent relevant professional experience) is an advantage.
- Experience supporting manager training is an advantage.
- Previous involvement in developing People/HR operating models is an advantage.
Skills
- Employee relations
- Performance management
- Absence management
- Probation management
- Conduct management
- Wellbeing support
- Flexible working advice
- Coaching
- UK employment law
- Communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Organisational skills
- Confidentiality
- Continuous improvement
- Adaptability
Location
- Central London office in Holborn
- Remote working arrangements
Work Type
- 9-month fixed-term contract
- Flexible working arrangements
- Remote
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- CIPD qualification (or equivalent relevant professional experience)
Salary/Compensations
- From £50,000 per annum (pro rata for the 9-month contract)
Benefits
- Generous Pension Scheme – employer contributions of up to 12%
- 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (pro rata)
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Home & Tech Savings
- £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus
- Wellbeing Support – including Mental Health First Aiders, 24/7 online GP services, and Employee Assistance Programme
About the Company
- Our Future Health is creating a world-leading resource for health research to improve understanding of common diseases, enabling earlier and more effective treatments.
- Our Future Health will be the UK's largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent, and treat diseases.
- We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry.
- We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK.
Equal Opportunity
- We recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process.
- We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.
- If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at talent@ourfuturehealth.org.uk.