Employee Relations Advisor
Salary in region of £32-38k + Company Bonus, Private Health Care, PHI, Life Assurance, Annual Leave Purchase & more
Flexible Hybrid Working – Predominantly home-based, with travel to our Glasgow office and other travel as required
Avidity Group is the parent company of 5 specialist agencies who offer a range of services to help brands sell more. We’re proud to partner with some of the UK and Ireland’s most recognised and well-loved brands, supporting them to grow faster, sell smarter and stand out in competitive markets.
We're looking for an Employee Relations Advisor to join our People Team. This is an exciting opportunity for a HR professional with strong employee relations experience who enjoys partnering with managers, navigating people matters, and helping create positive colleague experiences.
You'll provide expert advice and guidance across a wide range of employee relations activity, ensuring people decisions are fair, consistent and aligned with business needs. Working closely with HR Business Partners and managers, you'll play a key role in supporting colleagues while ensuring compliance with employment legislation and company policies.
What you’ll be doing
As ER Advisor, your days will be fast paced and varied. Your day to day will include (but not limited to):
- Providing first line HR expert advice and guidance to managers on a wide range of employee relations matters
- Managing and supporting a broad range of employee relations cases end to end
- Coaching leaders through people challenges that balances employee experience with business needs
- Supporting formal processes, investigations and required administration and documentation
- Ensuring HR policies and practices are applied consistently and compliantly whilst supporting with updates and required documentation
- Using people insights to support better business decisions
- Work closely with a broad range of stakeholders both internally and externally at all levels
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone who brings both expertise and energy to the role:
- You'll have previous experience in an Employee Relations, HR Advisor or HRBP support role
- Strong experience managing a broad range of ER cases from start to finish
- Experience advising and coaching managers on people issues and employment legislation
- Experience and confidence supporting people processes within the employee life-cycle
- Knowledge of UK employment law with ROI experience advantageous
- Experience working within a complex and commercially driven environment
Skills & capabilities
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and challenge constructively
- Sound judgement with the ability to balance risk, compliance and colleague experience
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters with professionalism and discretion
- Resilient, proactive and solutions-focused approach
- Strong commitment to fairness, consistency and delivering a positive employee experience.
Why join us?
You'll partner with leaders across the business to navigate people matters, helping them make fair, pragmatic decisions that support both business performance and colleague wellbeing. In return, you'll join a people-focused organisation where collaboration, continuous improvement and doing the right thing are genuinely valued. Here, you'll have the chance to develop your expertise, build strong stakeholder relationships and make a tangible impact on both the colleague experience and business success.