Senior HR Business Partner

Responsibilities

The exact allocation of work will be shaped with you and the team. Responsibilities are likely to include though:

• Working in partnership with senior commercial colleagues including Commercial Directors’ providing a high quality HRBP service and supporting with a broad range of HR challenges and issues.
• Supporting leaders with a wide variety of complex casework issues including but not limited to; dispute resolution (grievance), conduct, attendance management, suspension etc.
• Being proactive in fostering a lessons learned culture and ensuring that appropriate interventions are put in place, minimising reputational and financial risk to the organisation.
• Building the capability of line managers and wider HR team through providing effective guidance and practical advice.
• Supporting the development of our culture through a range of intervention including rolling out training around behaviours.
• Engaging commercial clients around the performance management proccess and working with the Perfomance Management lead help ensure the smooth delivery of this critical process.

• Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion through all work being delivered by the team and clients, aiming to enable a positive employee experience for all.
• Getting involved in a range of projects across the People Services team as and when required. For example, you may be asked to support with a policy refresh, or piloting a new system.
• Looking for opportunities for continuous improvement within People Services.
• Involvement in ad hoc projects including taking the lead on FOI/SARs for the areas that you partner.

• Able to build effective relationships with a variety of stakeholders, particularly senior ones, so that you can influence them to make positive long term people decisions.
• Strong experience of advising managers on processes of HR casework including dispute resolution (grievance), disciplinary (conduct) and attendance processes.
• Ability to use a range of HR good practice, strategies and data to develop approaches that help professionalise our HR service offer.
• Be both positively challenging and open to being positively challenged, to help shape thinking and ensure a strong delivery ethos. Having the confidence to act as a critical friend with senior stakeholders, using your HR expertise to provide key challenges.
• Be curious and able to work within a complex HR structure and willing to use your initiative to develop ways of getting the best outcomes to meet business needs.
• Maintain personal effectiveness when dealing with challenging situations.
• Strong personal resilience when dealing with often emotive and challenging cases.
• Good knowledge of UK employment law and best practice in HR.
• CIPD membership or willingness to work towards this.

Additional information:

A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. Although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.