Employee Relations Investigator

This an opportunity to take on a staff investigator role working alongside a highly skilled, forward-thinking and developmental HR team. 

About the role 

This role will focus on carrying out high quality investigations into a wide range of issues including under the University’s Dignity & Respect Policy, Staff Disciplinary Policy, the Grievance Policy and where applicable the Research Misconduct Policy. In doing so you will ensure that they are carried out in a transparent, rigorous, professional and timely manner, taking into account the wellbeing and safeguarding of all of the parties involved. 

You will take the lead responsibility as the investigator in assigned investigations into reports of varying complexity, which will primarily focus on staff respondents, but may on occasions include student reporting parties. In this role you may investigate alone or, on occasions, with support from an HR Advisor or Business Partner. 

You will determine if there is a case to answer and if found, will attend formal hearings and present the disciplinary case and cross examine the respondent staff member. 

You will also have the opportunity to contribute to policy development, developing, reviewing and revising identified HR policies, ensuring that they are clear, concise and straight-forward to follow, and that meet all UK legislative requirements and are supportive of the culture that the University is seeking to create. 

About you 

You will have excellent organisational, inter-personal and analytical skills, an ability to use your initiative and be able to interpret and apply complex information. You will be able to work on your own initiative and deliver reliably on expected timescales. We are constantly improving our practice and you will also be able to quickly learn new systems, technology and procedures and identify and implement improvements to these on an ongoing basis. 

Further Information

For informal discussions about the role please contact Peter Eley (Deputy HR Director) on pje25@bath.ac.uk 

This role is offered on (36.5 hours per week) fixed term basis with an expected end date of 31/01/2028. 

We are looking to interview week commencing 05 January. 

You will be working in a team who focus on enabling development for team members and contributing to our staff and student experience. 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

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