Seven Resourcing, a leading Social Care recruitment agency, is recruiting on behalf of a private provider that has been recognised as world-class by their many awards and accreditations.
Job Title: HR Business Partner
Location: Torbay Council
Contract: Fixed Term - 31st March 2025
Salary: £47,420 per annum
Key Purpose of the Job:
* To work as a professional HR Business Partner to all functions of the Council including Academies, Schools, and external customers.
* To strategically support the business to achieve successful outcomes and to work collaboratively with all levels of management to achieve transformational goals.
* Partnering with service areas to ensure that effective performance management takes place throughout the organisation, driving forward key organisational goals.
* Responsible for the provision of professional, specialist, consistent, and proactive HR advice, guidance, and coaching in line with the organisation's policy and procedural frameworks and legislation.
Anticipated Outcomes of the Post:
* Proactive and high-quality professional HR advice is provided to Directors, Assistant Directors, Senior officers, Council Members, Headteachers, and governors that protects the council's and its customer's position as employers in employment-related matters.
* Working closely with HR colleagues to provide a credible, timely, and respected professional HR service which supports operational and strategic HR objectives, aims, and aspirations.
* Change across the organisation is implemented and embedded successfully.
Key Duties and Accountabilities of the Post:
* As an Employee of Torbay Council, all roles are expected to work in a way that ensures vulnerable children and adults are safeguarded and report any safeguarding concerns in accordance with established policies and procedures.
* Responsible for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children at all times through the work of HR.
* To act as the first point of contact for customers, internal and external, for all professional HR advice matters, ensuring the highest levels of customer service and professional advice.
* Using up-to-date and expert knowledge of current employment law, legislation, and HR best practice to support managers/customers in the resolution of complex cases including employment issues, attendance management, disciplinary, grievance, performance management, capability, and organisation restructuring up to and including appeal and tribunal cases.
* To work flexibly and manage competing priorities as required to ensure effective service delivery with the ability to respond to emergency situations.
* To undertake detailed investigations, research, and analysis, and to provide and present high-quality, accurate, well-evidenced recommendations to managers (including senior managers) and other members of staff and stakeholders.
* Lead HR projects ensuring appropriate consultation, decision making, and implementation processes are followed.
* To enhance the organisation's and customers' people management performance by equipping and enabling managers to manage their staff with minimal HR intervention through coaching and training delivery.
* Participate as required in consultative arrangements with Trade Unions.
* Using a thorough understanding of the organisation and its financial envelope, work in partnership with managers/customers to help design and refine the business vision, providing support and challenge as required to deliver organisational change.
* To analyse and present (at all levels) complex information in reports in order to inform and influence business decisions.
* To manage TUPE transfers ensuring that employer obligations are met and that TUPE transfers both inward and outward are managed effectively.
* To write and advise on job descriptions and take the role of lead professional within job evaluation panels as required.
* To be responsible for making referrals to registered bodies after collaboration and consideration of relevant information to ensure employer and statutory obligations are met.
* To design and deliver bespoke training to a range of stakeholders as required to meet business needs.
* To undertake professional coaching assignments as required both internally and externally to the Council and in addition, use coaching as a mechanism to support managers to develop their own management skills.
* To support initiatives to improve well-being, staff engagement, and organisational development by promoting and acting as champions of such.
* To develop or update HR policies and procedures as required, undertaking research, interpreting legislation, and drafting both Corporate and School policies for consultation as necessary.
* To undertake all work in accordance with the Principles of Data Protection Act and Information Governance Policies and Procedures.
* To undertake regular CPD and to undertake training and development as appropriate to the role.
* To undertake specific HR project work as directed.
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