Job Title: People Adviser – Employee Relations
Location: Remote with occasional travel
Salary: £35,000
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full time – 37 hours per week
Closing date: 20 March 2025
Interviews: 27 March 2025
At SignHealth, we’re not just hiring—we’re breaking down barriers and transforming lives. As a deaf-led charity, we’re committed to ending health inequalities and creating a workplace where everyone belongs. Now is the perfect time to join our growing People Team as we invest in a brand-new People Strategy to build an inclusive, rewarding, and high-performing organisation.
Here, your ideas matter, your expertise is valued, and your passion for inclusion and equity can create real change.
The Role
As a People Adviser – Employee Relations, you will play a key role in supporting managers and employees across SignHealth with HR advice, guidance, and support. You’ll ensure that people-related policies and procedures are consistently applied, fostering an inclusive, fair, and positive working environment. Acting as a trusted first point of contact for people-related queries, you’ll offer practical solutions while aligning with employment law, best practices, and SignHealth’s values.
Your expertise will enable managers to effectively lead their teams, resolve challenges confidently, and contribute to the delivery of SignHealth’s strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities
• Experience providing HR Advice and administration support.
• CIPD Level 3 qualification and similar experience and knowledge of employment law.
• Strong understanding of UK employment law and HR best practices.
• Proven ability to advise and coach managers on HR matters.
• Experience managing employee relations cases, including disciplinaries and grievances.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and rapport.
• Strong administrative and organisational skills, with attention to detail.
• Proficiency in using HR systems and Microsoft Office tools.
• Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and confidentiality.
About You
• You are approachable and supportive, building strong relationships with colleagues across all levels.
• You have a proactive mindset, always looking for ways to improve processes and solve problems.
• You are detail-oriented and take pride in ensuring accurate documentation and compliance.
• You have strong communication skills, with the ability to explain HR policies and procedures clearly.
• You are empathetic and understanding, offering support and guidance in a compassionate way.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment, working closely with managers and team members to achieve shared goals.
Why Join Us?
At SignHealth, you will be part of a passionate and dedicated team, making a real difference to the lives of deaf people. We offer a supportive, inclusive work environment and opportunities for professional growth.
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We will work alongside you during your career with SignHealth to maximise your full potential with training and development to help you become the best you!
Working with your line manager you will receive an in-depth induction to give you great insight into our charity and what we do.
You will find out the role you will play in helping SignHealth deliver its mission.
Join our learning pathway with BSL, we offer paid training and development to further your BSL knowledge.
Wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do! It’s not just about our clients, it’s about you too.
Being a SignHealth employee you will also receive:
- 25 days holiday per holiday year plus bank holidays (pro-rata)
- 2 wellbeing days (pro-rata)
- After 3 months auto enrolled in the NOW pension scheme at prevailing rates
- After successful completion of probation period (normally 6 months) eligible to join Scottish widows pension employee contributes 5%, employer 6%
- Eye care vouchers
- 5 days paid study leave per year (CPD) (pro-rata)
- Expenses policy which allows payments for items when working away from home
- 2x salary life assurance scheme (death in service)
- Fully funded BSL training
- Generous sick pay policy
- Refer a friend £200 voucher for both the referee and referrer.
If this sounds like a position you would be interested in, please apply today!
We positively encourage applications from deaf people, disabled people, people of colour and people from the LGBT+ community. We will support all applicants along the journey of our recruitment process.
Offers of work are subject to: Enhanced DBS checks, Right to Work checks, satisfactory references and Medical Health clearance.
SignHealth do not hold a sponsorship licence. If you require sponsorship to work in the UK then unfortunately we are unable to consider your application.
