HR Business Partner

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

James Andrews is acting as an employment agency and business in relation to this role.

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