Employee Relations Operations team

The Employee Relations Operations team is headed by Tracey Nunn and is a professionally qualified team providing advice and guidance to staff and managers on a range of enquiries relating to their employment at the University. We work with our colleagues across People & Culture to develop capacity and capability of staff and support managers by providing a range of solutions that enable them to make decisions, alongside our transactional and project team to ensure our processes are compliant and efficient.

P&C Business Partners

P&C Business Partners provide strategic/operational advice to our faculties, Professional Services and our subsidiary companies in relation to strategic projects and business plans.

Senior Employee Relations Advisers

  • Providing P&C support relating to a variety of employment issues.
  • Coach and support managers on adopting good P&C practice by offering effective P&C advice through the interpretation of current employment and case law, best practice and relevant policies.
  • Advice to managers on employee relations cases e.g., sickness, disciplinary, capability etc, supporting them through investigations, in line with relevant policies and procedures, REF, HERA evaluations, ill health cases.

Employee Relations Advisers

  • Providing assistance with flexible working requests.
  • Maternity/paternity/parental leave enquiries.
  • General absence concerns.
  • General P&C enquiries.
  • Academic and probation monitoring.
  • Honorary titles.

The Employee Relations Advisers are managed by the P&C Business Partners and can be contacted via hrer@essex.ac.uk.

Employee Relations and Reward Project team

Provide subject matter expertise to support our transactional processes and collaborate with all P&C teams to ensure our systems and services are kept at a high level.

Employee Relations Assistants

  • Help with general P&C queries including annual leave, campus cards, Right To Work queries etc.
  • Individual Access Arrangement sform

The Employee Relations Assistants can be contacted via staffing@essex.ac.uk

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