HR Business Partner – Human Resources

What's involved with this role: Interim HR Business Partner – Human Resources Wakefield 0009 98E3 / 1 Hybrid working – 3-4 days onsiteKey Requirements:

• Graduate CIPD or other equivalent relevant qualification and significant experience in a management role.
• Significant knowledge of Employment legislation and its application in a large diverse organisation.
• Significant experience of working with senior management to develop and deliver pragmatic solutions to complex workforce issues and problems.
• Substantial experience of HR management at a senior level, including monitoring and improving performance.
• Experience of designing policies and practices that enable managers to manage and implementing successfully, ensuring diversity and fair access opportunities for all.
• Proven HR business partner experience with strong experience in change and transformation in unionised environments.
• Significant experience of utilising a broad range of data and performance information to analyse and interpret trends informing managers on People issues and develop HR for customers and services

The purpose of the role is to provide a comprehensive HR Business Partner service to Senior Management, other Officers of the Council, Elected Members and other partner organisations e.g. West Yorkshire Joint Services and YPO.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design workforce strategies and solutions to support the redesign and remodelling of services and bring about workforce cultural change.
• Responsible and accountable for providing a wide range of professional HR guidance on all complex HR matters within the Council.
• Act as an ambassador for the HR function and identify where HR can add the greatest value by influencing and then delivering customer requirements effectively at all levels.
• Responsible for developing a commercial HR offer and contracting services to external organisations to deliver bespoke HR solutions, continually looking to improve service provision.
• To be the accountable HR professional on significant change programmes being responsible for reviewing, advising and challenging ways of working and proposing new innovative solutions to improve service delivery and maximise use of resources
• Provide high level advice and support, to senior management, ensuring that all people issues are resolved by managers compliantly whilst managing risks and recognising the needs of the organisation whilst maintaining strong employee relations.
• Ensure governance arrangements are adhered to within services, dealing appropriately with matters of concern, where identified.
• Ensure business growth through directing the HR Service and working with the Service Manager HR to ensure HR Services are delivered in accordance with strategic objectives.
• Support the Service Manager HR to achieve the HR Teams strategic objectives by acting as the HR lead on a range of different projects and responsibilities.

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.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 by quoting the job reference and exact job title.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.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