Employee Relations Manager

Employee Relations Manager

CAPTION:

• Company: NHS Jobs


• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year


• Hours: Full-time


• Location: Derby, DE22 3LZ


• Job type: Contract


• Posting date: 28 Sept 2026


• Closing date: 12 Oct 2026

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Summary

You will be an experienced HR or employee relations practitioner with strong knowledge of sickness absence management, employment legislation and NHS people practices. You will be confident advising managers on complex and sensitive cases, able to analyse data and translate insight into action, and skilled at building trusted relationships across a complex organisation. You will bring excellent communication, influencing and organisational skills, together with the ability to work at pace, prioritise competing demands and maintain a compassionate, fair and outcome-focused approach. Experience of working in the NHS or a similarly complex, unionised environment would be highly beneficial. For more information on the full duties of the role please refer to the attached job description and person specification. As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk website Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK(www.gov.uk)

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You will be an experienced HR or employee relations practitioner with strong knowledge of sickness absence management, employment legislation and NHS people practices. You will be confident advising managers on complex and sensitive cases, able to analyse data and translate insight into action, and skilled at building trusted relationships across a complex organisation. You will bring excellent communication, influencing and organisational skills, together with the ability to work at pace, prioritise competing demands and maintain a compassionate, fair and outcome-focused approach. Experience of working in the NHS or a similarly complex, unionised environment would be highly beneficial. For more information on the full duties of the role please refer to the attached job description and person specification. As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship

requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk website Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK(www.gov.uk)