Band 7 Employee Relations Specialist – Case Investigator

The purpose of the role is to deliver highly specialist technical ER advice to investigations and improve delivery of cases by carrying out expert investigations across all staff groups to aid conclusions in a timely manner, and to make recommendations intended to prevent recurrence. It is to establish facts as guided by terms of reference for investigation not to apportion blame or liability.

This role will seek to improve investigation practice and standards across the wider RFL group through its own practice and delivery of training and continuous improvement.

The key responsibility of the post holder is to deliver (and to support others to deliver) expert investigations, ensuring full potential is harnessed to inform learning, a just and learning culture and patient safety improvement.

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

This investigatory role will provide a pivotal first-class investigatory service across the Trust, conducting investigations as directed by the Deputy / Head of Employee Relations, framing terms of reference, and engaging with divisional management teams.

In your specialist investigatory role you will be a member of the Employee Relations Team, and play a key role in supporting the review and development of policies, procedures, tools, training, quality assurance and quality improvement systems

You will be working with highly complex, sensitive, and emotive information requiring analysis and interpretation to inform sound decision making by case managers.

You will be experienced and adept at working with all parties who have been involved in, and affected by, cases where investigation is deemed necessary and dealing with emotive and sensitive information which may also be contentious in nature.

Working to agreed deadlines ensuring that Trust policy and best practice is adhered to, you must be able to organise and plan in a flexible approach and managing workloads to ensure all investigations are completed in a timely manner ensuring that they are comprehensive, accurate and relevant.

This includes scheduling of meetings, attending hearings, preparing case papers, providing advice on cases and procedures where appropriate, and taking minutes of meetings if required and providing highly coherent written reports to be presented at hearings.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Paul Sukhu Job title: Assistant Director of People Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 02077940500

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