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HR Business Partner (£42,914 - £46,182)
Job description
As a qualified (or aspiring) HR professional, the post holder will use a combination of generalist knowledge, personal skills and experience to advise and partner senior leaders on how best to align the people and business priorities.
Most roles require line management responsibility.
The post holder will be required to bring together the people priorities for their probation customer group or National Services at a senior level. They will support on the underpinning activities to enable;
- Solving: Provide strategic input on HR topics and help leaders develop effective people solutions
- Connecting: Help the organisation draw on appropriate People Function Services and shared service support
- Coaching: Coach leaders on how to manage people issues and drive the people agenda effectively
With links to the wider HR specialist functions within MoJ People and Capability, the post holder will facilitate access to the right services to deliver relevant people initiatives.
Key Delivery Strands:
Change Management
- Understanding the business and the drivers for change to be able to support the business with the people elements of change implementation.
- Support the business through reorganisation, restructures and redeployment.
Resourcing & Retention
- Working in partnership with the business and finance to understand the current and predicted workforce picture based on attrition and recruitment forecasting.
- Support in the execution of interventions to address resourcing and retention challenges and facilitating access to the right services across MOJ People and Capability.
- Provide support and advice on resourcing vacancies, ensuring compliance with Civil Service Recruitment Principles.
Management & Leadership Capability
- To understand the line manager and leadership capabilities within the business unit, support the business to access centrally run learning through the learning and development team and/or helping to develop the right learning interventions.
- Supporting senior leaders with the development of their leadership teams.
Attendance & Performance
- Help build management confidence and capability in managing absence, performance, conduct and grievance cases ensuring the right advice can be accessed.
- Work with the business to understand the casework picture and support senior leaders to drive action to progress cases within policy timelines, supporting in the access of advice.
- Work between HR and the business to ensure the policies are understood and embedded
- Understand the role of the unions and support managers with union engagement related to people activity.
Employee Experience and Staff Engagement
- Working with the senior leaders to analyse and identify the right people priorities through the annual Civil Service People Survey. Bringing in other workforce and people data as required to enable the business area to bring together an appropriate engagement delivery plan.
- Supporting the stakeholder group to implement the right employee engagement interventions, accessing the right support from within the people group drawing on best practise and central offers.
Inclusion & Well-being
- Ensure diversity and inclusion runs through all people strategies and action plan.
- Facilitate access to products and services to help support networks to improve delivery.
- Support the business to access the necessary wellbeing services for staff. Bringing together all that is available through the People Function to provide the right well-being package or service dependent on the need.
Base Location and Travel Requirements
The successful candidate will be based on one of the West Midlands Probation sites listed below. Travel may be required between the PDUs.
PDU Birmingham Central and South
PDU Birmingham North, East and Solihull
PDU Birmingham Courts & Central Functions
PDU Coventry
PDU Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Telford
PDU Warwickshire
PDU Worcestershire