Location
Flexible Midlands Based
Closing Date
10th November 2024
Salary
£41,550 - £46,332
The Vacancy
We are recruiting for HR Business Partners in our Operational HR Team.
There is likely to be some level of travel with this role and we’d be happy to discuss this with you to give you an idea of frequency and likely locations. You will ideally be based within the Midlands.
We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures. We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us.
We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience, which helps ensure we provide a service which promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families we work with.
Let us tell you a bit more about the role…
As a HR Business Partner, you will be part of our nationally dispersed HR Operations team within the wider HR and OD team. You will work closely with HR colleagues and the Senior HR Management team to deliver operational and strategic HR outcomes, as a genuine Business Partner to senior managers and their extended management teams.
This is a great place to work as the HR service is critical to Cafcass achieving the best possible outcomes for children, working as it does in close partnership with operational staff and managers to enable them to deliver outstanding frontline and corporate support services.
Responsibilities
In terms of what you can expect to be doing in this role, this is likely to include:
* Providing timely, accurate and robust advice and guidance on a full range of routine and complex HR issues, including employee relations casework.
* Playing a leading role in restructuring and change programmes, including project planning, producing business cases and impact assessments, and producing HR case plans.
* Providing direct, expert guidance to decision-makers throughout all stages of formal procedures.
* Providing support and expertise to senior HR colleagues to develop, progress and implement people management solutions.
* Forging close and influential working relationships with internal stakeholders.
What we’re looking for
As a HR Business Partner you will have:
* Experience and knowledge of HR issues, legislation, policies and procedures.
* Ability to operate in a high tempo environment, within a complex organisation.
* Effective interpersonal and communication skills, to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
* Capability to produce high quality written work.
* Commitment to contribute to the continuous improvement of frontline and corporate support services.
* A strong background in supporting line managers with people management and development issues.
* A proactive approach to resolving employee relations casework, drawing on your strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Next Steps / Timelines
If and when you are ready to apply, our application process is straightforward and quick to complete. You don’t need to complete your application in a single visit; you can start it and come back and amend your responses/update your CV, just make sure you come back before the closing date to submit.
Below we have given you an indication of a timetable we are hoping to work towards, although dates are subject to change:
* Closing date: 10th November
* Initial interview: Ongoing
* Virtual Assessment: w/c 18th November
* Final Interview: w/c 25th November
Prior to being invited for a panel interview, if you meet our essential criteria and initial interview, we would invite you to participate in a work-based assessment held online with one of our colleagues to further help us determine your suitability.
About Cafcass
We are Cafcass – the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service – and we represent children in family court cases in England. Independently advising the family courts about what is safe for children and in their best interests, we speak up for over 140,000 children every year when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures, ensuring their needs, wishes and feelings are heard.
If our purpose resonates with you, and you share our ambitions for children - exceptional experiences, for every child, everywhere and every time - then if you join us, you will work alongside like-minded people in a diverse, inclusive and supportive organisation.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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