Employee Relations Operations team

Senior Employee Relations Advisers

• Providing HR support relating to a variety of employment issues.
• Coach and support managers on adopting good HR practice by offering effective HR 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.
• Support for Athena Swan.

Employee Relations Advisers

• Providing assistance with flexible working requests.
• Maternity/paternity/parental leave enquiries.
• General absence concerns.
• RTW meetings.
• General HR enquiries.
• ASC and probation monitoring.
• Honorary titles.
• Individual Access Arrangements form.
• Tier 4 reporting.
• Flexible benefits.

The Employee Relations Advisers can be contacted via hrer@essex.ac.uk.

The team consists of:

• Karen Braybrooke – HR Operations Manager
• Sarah Brown – Senior Employee Relations Adviser
• Jenny Davies – Senior Employee Relations Adviser
• Chantal Mills – Senior Employee Relations Adviser
• Joanna Matthias – Senior Employee Relations Adviser
• Rebecca Black – Employee Relations Adviser
• Stacey Gunby – Employee Relations Adviser
• Jo Hopkins - Employee Relations Adviser

Employee Relations Assistants

• Help with general HR queries including annual leave, campus cards, RTW queries etc.
• Employee records, including processing any contract changes, new starters, absence processing and leavers.

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

• Victoria Hodgkinson – Employee Relations Operations Team Leader
• Lisa Russell – Assistant Employee Reward Manager
• Molly Taylor – Employee Relations Assistant
• Nusrath Chowdhury – Employee Relations Assistant
• Millie Johnson – Employee Relations Assistant
• Oliver Lerwill – Employee Relations Assistant

Also see

• Reward (Payroll and Pension) teamReward (Payroll and Pension) teamReward (Payroll and Pension) team
• HR Resourcing teamHR Resourcing teamHR Resourcing team
• HR Information Management teamHR Information Management teamHR Information Management team
• HR Business PartnersHR Business PartnersHR Business Partners