What is the opportunity?

This role involves leading investigations into employment-related matters, ensuring timely and thorough handling according to legal requirements. This is an exciting opportunity to lead complex employment investigations!

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex employment investigations end to end, including dignity at work, misconduct and other employee relations matters, ensuring adherence to agreed policies, collective agreements and fair procedures.
• Act as an independent hearer in disciplinary and capability hearings, making balanced, evidence based decisions and settling appropriate outcomes, including sanctions and warnings, in line with procedures.
• Maintain and oversee a panel of investigators across the Group, ensuring consistent investigative standards, quality assurance and ongoing capability development.
• Prepare clear, comprehensive and analytical investigation outcome reports, setting out findings, rationale, risks and recommendations for senior collaborators.
• Engage with the Conduct Forum for any investigation outcomes for colleagues in regulated roles.
• Maintain accurate MI and reporting of any disciplinary sanctions imposed.
• Manage highly sensitive and high risk cases, maintaining confidentiality while ensuring consistency, fairness and procedural integrity.
• Partner effectively with HR colleagues, business leaders, Legal and trade union representatives to ensure investigations are conducted in a timely, thorough and respectful manner, in line with Group policies and procedures.
• Identify themes, trends and systemic issues arising from investigations, using insights to inform policy enhancement, risk mitigation and continuous improvement.
• Drive improvements in investigation and hearing processes, tools and governance to enhance quality, efficiency and consistency at scale.

What will make you stand out:

• Proven experience managing a diverse and complex investigations delivering fair, consistent and legally robust outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of UK and Republic of Ireland employment law, including practical experience conducting investigations and hearings in line with fair procedures.
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and high quality report writing capability.
• Demonstrated sound judgement, discretion, empathy and emotional intelligence when managing sensitive and contentious matters.
• Strong business understanding and commercial acumen, with experience advising and influencing leaders on people risk and decision making.
• Strong relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills!

More about the team:

Group Employee Relations has a key role in delivering on the Group's People plan and People strategy. The purpose of Group Employee Relations is to support and enable the Group's strategic priorities and future ambition, delivering change for our shareholders, our customers, our colleagues, our communities, our partners and our regulators. This purpose is delivered via a constructive & sustainable relationship with employee representatives, industry bodies, management & employees.

The Employee Relations Team provides guidance and support to People Managers and People Services Business Partner's in the management of individual cases and issues arising across the Bank of Ireland Group to ensure the consistent application of standards to secure a successful resolution minimising reputational and financial risk for the Bank. The Employee Relations team provides these services across the island of Ireland and in the UK.

This is a hybrid role, based primarily at College Green. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support teamwork and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.

Equality Statement:

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email.

Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.