Job Description for HR Business Partner: There's never been a more exciting time to be part of the nuclear sector. New opportunities are being created all the time. At UKNNL, you'll be in the ideal place to capitalise on this momentum, face new challenges and develop a long, successful and meaningful career. We're an organisation that's here to experiment and push the limits of what's possible. So, if you're keen to excel in your chosen field, this is the place to do it. Because at UKNNL, anything is possible. To work in partnership with a number of departments within the business and their senior leaders to drive the People and Organisation agenda, in addition to ensuring a quality HR service is provided to support the Business goals. Support the broader HR agenda through providing specialist support to the wider HR portfolio such as OD, resource and skills planning, reward, employee relations and policy. Main Responsibilities for HR Business Partner: Provision of timely and effective business partnering, supporting specific business areas with HR initiatives in alignment with the HR strategy. Influence leadership decision making and behaviours in line with HR policy, employment legislation and the company leadership and values frameworks. Facilitates and supports organisational change, development, design and resourcing strategy development and implementation ensuring that the relevant HR process and employment legislation is adhered and make verses buy assessments are appropriately conducted. Support the Heads of Department with their skills and capability planning, ensuring that the required plans are in place and acted upon to build and develop the skills and capabilities that the business requires in the short, medium and long term to fulfil the business plan and strategic aims. Partner with relevant business teams to support the meeting of business targets. Partner with local trade unions to support a positive employee relations environment. Translate business requirements into effective HR practices, delivering people solutions aligned to business objectives. Support the business where appropriate in the selection and resourcing for roles up to a senior management level and approve the recruitment and grading of roles where required. Engage with the business for employee and leadership development and succession planning. Identify learning and development opportunities and support interventions from the framework provided. Manage a portfolio of employment cases (including disciplinary, grievance and performance support, attendance support and H&WB) with differing levels of complexity and ambiguity. Identification of risks (legal, financial and reputational) and the provision of advice to key stakeholders on alternative strategies. Supply the appropriate advice and consultancy service on the rights and obligations of NNL and its employees arising from the contract of employment and associated legislation. Champion the Health and Wellbeing agenda across customer areas ensuring that appropriate development and support is provided where needed. Lead small to medium HR improvement projects or support large projects linked with the HR plan Support compliance with and contribute to risk management, governance and assurance processes in HR. Essential Criteria for HR Business Partner: CIPD qualified - chartered. Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence and challenge stakeholders and senior managers.Up to date knowledge and application in the workplace of employment law. Strong sense of commercial business awareness. Exceptional personal resilience. Experienced at partnering with the business with proven ability to manage a complex HR work including resource planning and skills planning and development. High levels of integrity, complimented by a can-do attitude. Strategically astute. Able to demonstrate a positive attitude to health, safety and security. Demonstrate that you live our values - Safety - in everything we do; Customer -delivering value, sharing success; Integrity - doing the right things right; Taking responsibility - solving the problem, owning the solution; Enthusiasm - enjoying what we do, inspiring others; Collaboration - being inclusive, unleashing potential. Ability to obtain BPSS level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment and criminal record checks). Why join us? UKNNL isn't just a place where you can do career-defining work that makes a real-world impact. It's also a place where you'll feel appreciated and valued. We're creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is free to be themselves and feel like they belong. We put your wellbeing first, we push you to reach your potential, and we do everything possible to help you feel safe, supported and inspired. We also offer a range of employee benefits: Sector leading Family-Focused Policies: celebrate life events, including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and a week off for your marriage. UKNNL offers attractive pension plans. If you contribute 5%, UKNNL contributes 15%. Alternatively, if you choose not to contribute (0%), UKNNL will still contribute 10%. Annual Leave: Benefit from 25.5 days of leave, plus 4 extra days to be taken during Christmas shutdown, plus Bank Holidays. Reduced gym membership with discounts of up to 25% from 3,700 gym and leisure providers across the UK Company Bonus: Be rewarded for your contributions. Learning Opportunities: Enhance your skills through excellent development programmes. Employee Assistance: Access support for personal and professional challenges. Cycle to Work: Stay active and eco-friendly. Life Assurance: Ensure peace of mind for you and your loved ones. Enhanced Sick Pay Benefits: Receive support during illness or injury. Access to 'Mydiscounts' which has a range of special offers and discounts from more than 200 suppliers, including medical insurance and dental insurance. Health Care: Health savings plan which allows you to claim money back on visits to the dentist, optician and/or physiotherapist (limits apply). About The Company UKNNL is an incredible place to work. A place where people do things that have never been done before. A place where people push boundaries to further themselves, the business and society as a whole. This is a place where personal and professional opportunities are limitless. If you want to change the world, if you want to tackle climate change, if you want to help advance medical science, if you want to help put things in space, if you want to answer the big questions, if you want to work with extraordinary materials, if you want to meet great people, learn new skills, challenge yourself, work flexibly, and build a long successful career with the power to make a real impact you can do it all here. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion UKNNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) where UKNNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures, providing reasonable adjustments as appropriate. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging and the ability to access to workplace in a way which works for you. Recruitment Agency Notice We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for the provision of recruitment services. Only agencies on our PSL may provide CVs and only when the role is released to them by our recruitment team. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from suppliers not currently on our PSL. We explicitly reserve the right to add candidate details from unsolicited CVs from non-PSL agencies into our own candidate database and to pursue/hire such candidate(s) without any obligation, financial or otherwise, to the agency concerned. ADZN1_UKTJ