Employee Relations Advisor

Job overview

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a skilled and experienced HR professional to join our dedicated Employee Relations team, in the role of Employee Relations Advisor. Working in a small and supportive embedded workforce team, and supported by the Senior Employee Relations Manager, the ER Advisor plays a crucial role in providing advice and support to managers and employees across the Trust on a wide range of operational employee relations matters.

The ER Advisor will use their knowledge and experience to manage a caseload of routine employee relations issues including sickness absence management, disciplinary, informal grievances and capability processes. The successful post holder will have access to the Trust’s new HR case management system, to accurately document and track progress on their cases to ensure casework is progressed in line with key performance indicators.

The Employee Relations team is instrumental in embedding the Trust’s priority of supporting our staff, and the Trust's own Values – Together Safe, Kind, Excellent. This role offers an excellent opportunity to further develop your HR career in a fast-paced environment of an acute Trust, working in partnership with stakeholders and trade union representatives and influencing workforce outcomes.

Applicants who have applied in the last six months need not apply again.

Main duties of the job

To provide support and assistance on a range of employment related issues such as capability, disciplinary and grievance.

To robustly support case management of routine employee relations issues in collaboration with Employee Relations Managers and line managers across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

This vacancy will close at midnight on 13th May 2026.

Interviews are due to be held on 21st May 2026.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.