Employee Relations Advisor

📍 Middlewich / Rochdale
🕒 Full time | Permanent

Make a real impact where people and healthcare meet

At InHealth, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the UK’s leading specialist diagnostic and healthcare provider, we support the NHS and private patients with safe, high-quality care - and that starts with supporting our managers and colleagues in the right way.

We’re now looking for an Employee Relations Advisor to join our HR team and take ownership of our Employee Relations caseload, helping to shape a confident, proactive and high-performing manager advisory service across the business.

Reporting to the Senior HR Business Partner, you’ll be the go-to expert for Employee Relations, managing cases end-to-end and providing pragmatic, legally sound advice to managers and stakeholders across InHealth.

You’ll play a key role in:

• Triaging and managing all ER cases, from disciplinary and grievance through to performance, sickness absence and mediation

• Coaching and upskilling managers and People Operations colleagues to address issues early and confidently

• Acting as an escalation point for complex ER matters, working closely with HR Business Partners

• Driving continuous improvement across ER policies, processes, training and management information

• Supporting the development and implementation of a best-in-class manager advisory service

This is a highly visible role where your expertise will directly influence how people issues are handled across the organisation.

What you’ll bring

You’ll be an experienced ER professional who combines strong technical knowledge with a practical, people-centred approach.

Essential experience and skills:

• Proven experience managing a broad Employee Relations caseload

• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice

• Confidence advising and coaching managers at all levels

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent communication skills, with a calm, professional and solutions-focused style

Desirable:

• Experience within healthcare or a clinically regulated environment

• Exposure to contractual law

• Experience driving ER process or policy improvements

Qualifications:

• CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent experience)

• CIPD Level 7 (desirable)

Ready to apply?

If you’re passionate about employee relations, enjoy developing others, and want to make a tangible impact in a healthcare organisation that truly values its people - we’d love to hear from you.

👉 Apply now and help us build confident managers and great workplaces at InHealth.

In addition to this, we also offer:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Generous company contribution pension scheme
• Private medical insurance options
• Life assurance
• Hybrid and flexible working opportunities
• Fantastic learning and development opportunities
• 24/7 access to a dedicated well-being hub and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced parental leave
• Monthly award programme and online peer-to-peer recognition
• Long service recognition, with vouchers and additional annual leave
• Refer a friend bonus
• Discounts on InHealth’s healthcare services
• Smart tech, Cycle to Work and thousands of discounts and cashback options
• Paid-for professional memberships and more!

Making sure our people are happy at work is one of our main priorities, which means giving them as many opportunities as we can to support their personal and professional growth. We also have an innovative approach to personal and professional development, helping you to be the best version of you and giving you a real career pathway.

InHealth is the UK’s largest specialist provider of diagnostic and healthcare solutions. Our aim is to make healthcare better for patients by working collaboratively with the NHS to deliver a range of high-quality tests, scans, assessments and procedures. In the last year, we have supported more than 5 million people in their healthcare journeys, the majority of these are NHS patients and service users.

As a people-focused organisation, our teams are integral in how we deliver our services and our values of Trust, Passion, Care and Fresh Thinking underpin everything we do, influencing the way we interact with patients, customers, and colleagues.

Our mission is to be the preferred provider of high-quality diagnostics and healthcare solutions in hospitals and in accessible community settings, serving patients from 1,000 locations by 2025.