Employee Relations Specialist

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: PO3 (£47,262 – £50,676)
Work location: Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TR
Hours per week: 36
Working arrangements: Hybrid
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday 20th September 2026 at 23:59
Expected interview date: 5th October 2026

If you are intending on going for a secondment opportunity, please ensure you had notified your line manager/head of service to seek approval

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.

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 you

You will be a CIPD-qualified HR professional, or hold an equivalent qualification, with experience of managing complex employee relations casework within a large, unionised organisation, ideally in local government or the wider public sector. You will have a strong understanding of employment law, organisational change, and HR best practice, alongside excellent communication, influencing and coaching skills. We are looking for someone who 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.

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 + 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.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk