Job Description
🌟 Join Our Team as an Employee Relations Specialist - Casework
Grade I | Salary: £44,711 – £47,754 per annum ((pro-rata for part-time) | Location: Nottingham, NG2 3NG | Full-time
Are you passionate about people, fairness, and driving meaningful change through positive employee relations? Are you ready to shape best-practice HR casework in one of the UK’s most dynamic councils? If so, we want to hear from you.
Nottingham City Council is seeking a skilled
Employee Relations Specialist - Casework to lead the development and delivery of our casework strategy. You will work closely with senior managers and HR partners to drive a fair, inclusive, and high-performing workplace.
🔍 About The Role
In this pivotal position, you will be Nottingham City Council’s go-to expert for employee relations casework. You will develop the organisation’s frameworks for managing complex and high-risk matters such as grievances, disciplinary action, absence management, and employment tribunals. Your work will ensure our approach reflects legal compliance, best practice, and our organisational values.
You will work at a senior level to influence, advise, and empower managers and HR colleagues, supporting confident decision-making and consistent, fair outcomes.
💼 Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Council’s employee relations casework strategy and frameworks
- Provide expert advice on complex and sensitive ER cases, ensuring consistency and fairness
- Oversee governance for Employment Tribunals, Early Conciliation, and Judicial Mediation
- Use data and analytics to identify patterns, inform policy, and improve performance
- Develop manager training programmes on investigations, conflict resolution, and mediation
- Support organisational risk management and legal compliance across all casework
- Collaborate with trade unions, employee networks, and internal stakeholders to promote positive working relationships
- Ensure all casework-related policies are current, legally compliant, and aligned with organisational goals
🧠 What You’ll Bring
We are looking for a confident HR professional with deep expertise in employee relations and casework in a complex organisational setting.
You Will Need
- Proven experience leading complex HR casework and advising at a senior level
- Strong understanding of employment law and its practical application
- Excellent judgement, influencing, and risk management skills
- Ability to analyse data to shape policy and identify trends
- Experience working collaboratively with unions and senior stakeholders
- A strong commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in policy and practice
- CIPD Level 5 or 7 or equivalent experience
💡 Why Nottingham City Council?
At Nottingham City Council, Our Mission Is To Put Citizens At The Heart Of Everything We Do. You Will Join a Values-driven Organisation That Champions
✅ Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
✅ Innovation and continuous improvement
✅ Collaborative working across services
✅ A focus on wellbeing, fairness, and learning
You will be supported by a forward-thinking HR team working to deliver real change, both within the Council and across the city.
📅 Ready to Make a Difference?
This is your opportunity to play a critical role in building a fair, inclusive, and effective working culture for a workforce making a real difference to the people of Nottingham.
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Apply now to become our
Employee Relations Specialist - Casework and help shape the future of employee relations in a dynamic public sector environment.
For an informal chat, please contact Kirsty Spencer, HR Delivery Manager at
[email protected]You can find the job description for this post here
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the
additional information for applicants page.
Closing Date: 24th August 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: TBC
If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support
By applying to this job, you agree to our Terms & Conditions.
About Us
Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.
In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:
- 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
- Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
- Smart Working – to support your work life balance
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.
