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Senior workplace relations specialist

Sharp & Carter Brisbane Professional
Posted: 24 February
Offer description

These roles form part of a strategic investment in building deeper internal capability, strengthening investigation quality, and supporting a geographically distributed national model.

You will work on the organisation's most complex, sensitive, and high-risk matters, partnering closely with senior leaders to manage risk, drive best practice, and deliver commercially sound outcomes.

About the Roles Two permanent positions are available:

* Senior Specialist
* Specialist

Both roles play a critical role in stabilising workload, lifting capability, and enabling future team growth. Based in Mount Gravatt, these roles offer a flexible hybrid model (2 days in office, 3 days WFH).

Key Responsibilities

As a trusted Workplace Relations advisor, you will:

* Independently manage complex workplace investigations end-to-end, including planning, interviews, evidence analysis, credibility assessments, findings, and recommendations
* Provide high-level advisory support on redundancies, restructures, disputes, performance, misconduct, and broader workplace risk
* Represent the organisation at early stages of litigation, including conciliations and conferences in relevant tribunals
* Manage matters before employment-related bodies, including preparation, filing, and service of documentation
* Assess and mitigate risk across unfair dismissal, general protections, discrimination, bullying, harassment, and injury-related matters
* Negotiate settlement agreements, managed exits, and dispute resolutions
* Support leaders managing long-term non-work-related illness and injury matters
* Deliver coaching and learning sessions on employment-related matters
* Analyse trends and emerging risks to inform proactive business interventions
* Operate confidently in a high-volume, fast-paced environment without compromising quality

This is a strategic advisory role requiring sound judgment, strong technical capability and the confidence to influence senior stakeholders.

About you

* Strong experience in complex workplace relations and employment law
* Extensive experience managing high-risk workplace investigations and complex employee relations cases
* Ability to work in a fast-paced and complex environment with multiple stakeholder group
* Highly experienced in building strong stakeholder relationships and influencing people with ease

If this role sounds like the ideal next step in your career, please reach out to Kerry for a confidential conversation or

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