What's involved with this role: Interim HR Business Partner – Human Resources Job Ref: Cheshire E 5256838 Pay Rate: £26.95 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 36.25 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 5 months City: Sandbach, Cheshire The purpose of the role is to lead and manage a team of HR Operations staff focusing on the delivery of the Workforce Strategy and Service Workforce Plans through effective business partnering and policy development to translate business strategies into people solutions and drive continuous improvement to ensure that the needs of the Council are met. Key Responsibilities: Lead, direct and develop a team of professional staff to provide HR services to services through the delivery of Service Workforce plans and effective business partnering, influencing and challenge so that client needs are met. Develop, lead and promote HR initiatives/projects and specialisms and advise on implementation to ensure they are fit for purpose and meet the needs of the business. Provide high level professional HR advice, guidance, support and leadership through business partnering to Senior Management Teams, Council Managers and others to ensure that the people needs of the Council are met, including in the development of the service workforce plans. Develop and maintain effective channels of communication, consultation and negotiation between management, employees and their representatives to ensure participative and harmonious working relationships. Analyse, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of people management strategies, in liaison with across the HR service, to drive continuous improvement and ensure efficient service delivery. Working with the HR Policy and Reward team, provide practical and operational contribution to developing and maintaining a framework of HR policies, procedures and processes so that they meet customer need, legal requirements are applied and the Council meets its good practice obligations. Develop and lead on organisational design and change management programmes, in conjunction with the other teams in the HR Service, so that structures, workforce levels and composition, employee performance and training provision reflect the needs of the business and Council standards. Lead on escalated and complex casework, investigations and employee relation matters (including Appeals) and provide professional HR advice and support to Senior Managers and others to ensure that employees are treated in a fair and consistent way and the Council meets its statutory obligations. Plan, prepare and deliver bespoke training, development and Workshops for Senior Managers and others to ensure best practice is achieved in relation to the treatment of employees. Provide high level professional HR advice on the interpretation and application of best practice, legislation, terms and conditions, pensions and related matters so that employees are managed in a fair and consistent manner. Qualifications: Relevant degree or equivalent. Member of CIPD (MCIPD). Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Significant post qualification operational and policy development experience including experience at a senior level Advanced knowledge of HR policies, procedures and processes and related professional practices, employment law, case law, organisational design principles, change management, local government conditions of service and pensions etc. Ability to interpret policies/procedures in a pragmatic way to solve organisational and individual problem. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please