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HR Business Partner
Job Posted: 12 days ago
Salary: £ 50,000 - 58,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: West Midlands
Expire in: 16 days
Job Description
We are currently working in partnership with a higher education institution who are recruiting for a permanent, full-time HR Business Partner. The salary is £50,000 - £58,000 per annum. This role offers a unique opportunity to split your focus between leading the HR elements of setting up a new School and acting as HR Business Partner for Professional Services departments.
The ideal candidate will have extensive HR experience within Higher Education and preferably NHS, hold Level 7 full Chartered CIPD membership, and be confident in providing strategic and operational HR leadership across complex organisations.
Duties will include (but are not limited to):
Developing and delivering strategic and operational HR plans
Partnering with Deans, Directors and Senior Managers to drive engagement and embed a positive culture
Leading on the HR elements of establishing the new School, including workforce planning, resource planning and resourcing frameworks
Ensuring compliance with HR policies, procedures and processes, including absence, attrition, grievance, disciplinary, flexible working and recruitment
Supporting the development of workforce and staff resource plans, reviewing business cases for recruitment, and ensuring managers involved in selection are trained and assessed
Providing expert advice on organisational design, workforce planning, succession planning and resourcing strategies
Driving compliance with performance appraisal, talent management and development processes, working with OD colleagues to address training needs
Advising senior managers on organisational change, TUPE, job design, policy interpretation, equality and diversity, early retirement, redundancy and staff development
Identifying HR service improvement opportunities and implementing actions with HR colleagues
Leading local Equality, Diversity and Inclusion action plans and feeding into central institutional plans
Supporting the Employee Relations team with complex and high-risk cases, including investigations, appeals, legal advice and tribunal claims
Coaching and supporting managers on recruitment, performance management, succession planning, reward, restructuring and employee relations
Acting as a source of consistent professional HR and legal advice across the institution, including employment legislation and employee relations matters
Contributing to HR-wide initiatives, policies, procedures and strategy, and delivering one-off training or strategic projects as required
Experience required:
Demonstrable success in partnering senior managers
Track record of handling complex employee relations
Experience designing and delivering organisational restructures and change programmes
Experience working in a unionised environment with trade union colleagues
Familiarity with organisational development and culture change programmes
Skills, knowledge and expertise required:
Broad HR technical skills
Strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
Ability to balance strategic thinking with practical HR delivery
Working hours:
37 hours per week
Full time 9-5, with occasional evening and weekend working as required
Hybrid Working days
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