Employee Relations Advisor

Employee Relations Advisor

Job Type

Support

Job Category

Human Resources

Employment Basis

Established (salaried)

Location

John Ruskin College - Croydon, East Surrey College - Redhill

Salary Range

£32,945.72 per annum (pro-rated to £26,356.57)

Closing Date

20/02/2026

Documents

• Employee Relations Advisor JD&PS.pdf
  (PDF, 210.1kb)
• OSC Corporation Competency Framework.pdf
  (PDF, 472.18kb)

Employee Relations Advisor

Location: East Surrey College and John Ruskin College

Hours: 29.6 hours per week (ideally spread across 5 days)

Salary: £32,945.72 per annum (pro-rated to £26,356.57)

This is a great opportunity to join a supportive, forward-thinking People team and play a key role in shaping positive employee experiences across the College Group.

Working closely with the People Partner, you will providing clear, practical HR and employment law advice to managers and staff across the full employee lifecycle. You will support recruitment, attendance management, probation processes, and wider HR activity, as well as contributing to HR and CPD projects and helping to continuously improve how the HR service operates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide professional, accurate and timely employment law advice
• Prepare for and support investigations in line with college policy and procedure
• Assist HR Business Partner with reporting, data analysis and document preparation
• Assisting with recruitment activity
• Support and deliver HR or CPD projects
• Support with HR Administration and process

The successful candidate must have:

• Educated to Level 5 or equivalent experience
• CIPD Level 3 although CIPD Level 5 is desirable
• Maths & English GCSE / Level 2 equivalent (achieved or willing to obtain)
• Knowledge of UK employment law and ACAS code of practice
• Ability to manage complex and sensitive ER casework
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise a varied caseload

If you enjoy variety, problem-solving, and making a real difference to how people are supported at work, we’d love to hear from you!

If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward thinking, friendly, fast paced, changing environment with state of the art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such a choice of two excellent pension schemes, a brilliant holiday package, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.

*Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates.

Please refer to the attached Job Description, Person Specification and Competency Framework and apply using the button below.

Orbital South Colleges Group are committed to Equal Opportunities, encouraging applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population. We are also committed to PREVENT and Safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Both College Campus’ are smoke-free zones.

As part of our pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS, references will be taken and evidence of all qualifications and awards will also be required before commencement of employment. Failure to do so may lead to offers being withdrawn.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits, and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.