Interim HR Business Partner – Human Resources
Job Ref: Brent 5256962
Pay Rate: £26.15 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: Wembley, London
The purpose of the role is to coach and advise Directors, Managers and where applicable school leaders on the professional aspects of HR including management of employees, HR policy and procedure, legal implications, formal consultation, and TUPE transfers which ensure the Council has excellent management of its employees and strong employee relations.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Develop a trusted customer-focused relationship with Directors, Managers and school leaders of the assigned business area to support the identification of service priorities, initiatives and agreed outcomes.
2. Provide professional HR and management advice to ensure that the Council and the traded service has excellent management of ER casework. Promptly and reliably identify and apply relevant legislation, policy, strategic and operational priorities, and organisation values that apply in people management situations.
3. Work as a team of HR Business Partners to partner services within allocated Directorates, whilst remaining flexible and co-operative to ensure a fair and reasonable allocation of work across all HR Business Partner teams as and when required.
4. Provide a professional advice service to enable and empower effective management of the workforce.
5. Work closely with the allocated HR Advisors providing advice and guidance where necessary.
6. Provide advice and support on change programmes relating to restructures, redundancies, early/ill health and efficiency retirement and redeployment in the Council.
7. Provide advice on job design and undertake job evaluation in respect of reorganisations and reviews, for new posts and where appeals are submitted.
8. Collaborate with managers and HR colleagues to develop and implement workforce strategies, and implement different methods that build capacity in talent management to attract and retain the right staff to fill the Council’s diverse jobs.
9. Champion equality, inclusion and accessibility at work through the ongoing development and implementation of the council’s workforce equality plan and in accordance with relevant legislation, ensuring an integrated approach to staff management and service delivery.
10. Coach, support and challenge Managers and school leaders to undertake their employee management roles and to ensure that the standards of management is continuously improved for the Council/School.
Qualifications:
1. Professional member of the CIPD at MCIPD, or equitable demonstrable experience and CIPD qualified to Level 7.
2. Evidence of continual professional development as a human resources practitioner.
Skills & Experience:
1. Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
2. Successful experience delivering human resources advice and support to multi-sited service managers across the human resources functions, including interpreting and applying terms and conditions of service and contracts of employment.
3. Sound experience of managing and bringing to a successful conclusion a high volume of human resources casework including discipline, grievance, capability and harassment.
4. Support managers through managing change programmes.
5. Experience of providing advice and guidance on TUPE matters and contractual variations.
6. Experience of attending and managing employee tribunals working with ACAS and legal representatives.
7. Knowledge and understanding of key human resources processes such as payroll and pensions, human resources information systems and recruitment.
8. Excellent knowledge and understanding of human resources best practice in employee relations coupled with a thorough understanding of the practical application of current and upcoming employment law.
9. Knowledge of pay related matters including pay reviews, reward strategy and changes to pay related terms & conditions.
10. Ability to analyse and interpret complex information.
11. Ability to research topics to prepare briefings / presentations and in-house communications to both HR and non-HR audiences.
12. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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