Interim Senior HR Business Partner – Human Resources Job Ref: Brent 5253544 Pay Rate: £33.43 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 Hybrid working – 3 days in the office The purpose of the role is to lead and manage the delivery of a professional HR Service that adds value and delivers effective business-focused solutions, by advising on and managing risk to the organisation and maintaining good employee relations. Key Responsibilities:
* Make a positive contribution to the delivery of the service, this will include working flexibly and positively to achieve the objectives of the council.
* Manage and lead staff to achieve high performance and effective operational delivery, including developing and improving staff capability.
* Manage a customer focused service and the effective use of resources.
* Ensure that the council’s overall vision, values and ethos are central to the requirements of the service.
* Support effective working relationships and act as an ambassador and advocate with external organisations.
* Keep up to date with developments in service delivery and best practice to ensure the service performs effectively and to the highest standards.
* Devise strategies for the council-wide planning and management of people including employee relations and organisational change, to meet current and future business needs in line with the priorities and commitments in the Council’s Corporate Plan and Workforce Strategy.
* Build consistency and professional excellence, including responsibility for ensuring the allocation of HR resources is strategically and tactically well-managed with the right skills and knowledge assigned effectively and consistently.
* Establish and develop a trusted customer-focused relationship with the senior leadership team of the assigned business area to support the identification and delivery of service priorities, initiatives and agreed outcomes. Where applicable this also includes oversight of the traded service to schools and relationships with Headteachers.
* Identify and deliver client-responsive, cost-effective HR solutions to business challenges.
Qualifications:
1. Professional member of the CIPD at MCIPD or FCIPD, or equitable demonstrable experience and CIPD qualified to Level 7.
2. Evidence of continual professional development as a human resources practitioner in line with the CIPD profession map.
Skills & Experience:
1. Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
2. Experience of working as a senior HR professional in a large, complex organisation.
3. Extensive HR experience with in-depth knowledge and experience of change management initiatives.
4. Experience of providing strategic, business-led advice that supports all aspects of employee relations.
5. Experience of designing strategies to ensure HR provides clear business-focused outcomes aligned over the long term to delivery of the organisation’s workforce plan.
6. Experience of identifying and delivering client-responsive, cost-effective HR solutions to business challenges.
7. Experience of devising strategies for council-wide planning of organisational change.
8. Experience of working collaboratively across organisational boundaries, providing high-level human resources and employment advice to support cost-effective outcomes.
9. Experience of developing constructive working relationships with trade union representatives through negotiation and consultation.
10. Extensive experience of complex employee relations matters including the handling disciplinary, grievance, ill health, and redundancy issues.
11. Experience of using HR management information to inform HR planning.
12. Strong leadership and management skills, including people and performance management.
13. Strong leadership and management skills, including people and performance management.
14. Ability to plan the delivery of operational HR and change management programmes to meet business needs within a legal and regulatory framework.
15. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Mosaic).
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