Job title:                Senior HR Advisor

Location: Remote working in the UK

Responsible to: HR Manager

Salary: £30,000 to £37,000

Contract: Full time, 37 hours a week

Please apply as soon as possible submitting your CV and a one page covering letter which outlines your specific interest and ability to successfully fill this role, as well as your salary expectations and current notice period.

Why us?

Speakers for Schools are a dynamic, swift-moving and fast-growing charity. We are on a mission to support a million young people across the UK annually by 2023. Having taken the first steps on the road to achieving this, our team has doubled in size in the past year. This has supported 278% growth in our Experience programme and 10% growth in our Inspiration programme during the past 12 months.

We want to level the playing field, making sure that all young people can access inspirational opportunities and experiences to fuel their ambition.

We are united and unique in our mission to transform lives through raising aspirations of millions of young people every year. Each year, 1,500 senior leaders, celebrities and industry experts deliver a difference to by sharing their story with students in schools and colleges in every corner of the UK. We connect employers such as Disney, The Bank of England, Spotify PwC and almost two hundred others to communities to provide access to the top opportunities for all across the UK. With us, you will be part of inspiring a generation to reach higher, broaden horizons and get equal access to the top.

To keep growing our charity and our impact, we need top talent and we are committed to treasuring, developing and supporting them to thrive within their roles.

Role Summary

Reporting to the HR Manager you will play an integral role in providing an efficient and high-quality Senior HR Advisor partnering service to the charity. You will work collaboratively with your HR colleagues to ensure the HR service provided is first-class. You will work closely with stakeholders across the charity to support them with their people planning and HR needs.

Key Duties / Responsibilities

• Provide an effective business partnering service to line managers across the charity
• Support the creation and delivery of people plans
• Support the line manager in the effective probation and appraisal management
• Coach/train line managers on key HR areas such as performance management
• Lead on employee relations cases
• Provide sound, effective and timely employment law advice
• Provide support during organisational change
• Produce HR analysis and reports on a timely basis
• Carry out job evaluation
• Create, amend and update HR policies as and when required
• Support delivery of wellbeing initiatives
• Support HR Manager with the development and implementation of HR processes, policies and systems
• Support HR Officer with recruitment activity and onboarding processes when required
• Support the HR Manager in updating HR related policies and procedures
• Support the HR manager in HR projects as and when required
• Deputise for the HR Manager in their absence

Key skills and experience:

Essential: -

• CIPD Level 7 (or working towards)
• Up to date employment law knowledge
• Previous experience in a similar business partnering role.
• Proven experience in leading on ER casework
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to build strong relationships.
• Effective organisational and multi-tasking skills
• Experience of training and coaching on HR policies and procedures

Desirable: -

• Experience of working in a scaling organisation
• Experience of working in the charity sector

Benefits offered at Speakers for Schools:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Morning of your birthday off
• Pension scheme
• CharlieHR perks
• Perkbox
• £500 a year training allowance

Diversity at our core

At Speakers for Schools, we are committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating discrimination. Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

We welcome applications from all, including those where employment has been affected by Covid19 and those seeking to change careers. Diversity if at our core, join us.

How to apply:

You must have the right to work in the UK without visa restriction to be considered.

Please apply as soon as possible submitting your CV and a one page covering letter which outlines your specific interest and ability to successfully fill this role, as well as your salary expectations and current notice period.

Appointees are subject to a successful DBS check, as contact with young people is likely.

Please note, if you do not provide a covering letter your application will not be considered.

The Journey to joining Speakers for Schools:

Interviews will be scheduled as applications are received, before the closing date, and will take place over Microsoft Teams. We may appoint before this date depending on applications.

The closing date for this role will be on or before Friday 3rd December.

Interviews for this role will be taking place on Wednesday 8th December. 

Please note, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date please assume that your application has been unsuccessful.

Our new team member will start ASAP.

Are you an HR professional up for an interesting cross-organisational and multi-dimensional role?

CaLP has recently approved a new strategy, which will guide our work for the coming years. To deliver the strategy, we need to continue a development of an effective, collaborative and agile team, that is transparent, open and accountable. The HR Business Partner will be an enabler, supporting healthy people management practices, and a catalyst working with the HR teams of the CaLP Host agencies

CaLP is hosted by three of its members – Oxfam, ACF and NRC.  CaLP staff are contracted by the hosts, with HR policies set by the host agencies. In the case of ACF and Oxfam, staff are contracted by various entities within the Federated families – depending on location. In addition, CaLP sometimes benefits from having staff seconded from other organisations. The hosting setup of CaLP has many benefits but also some challenges. From an HR perspective, having staff contracted by different hosts means there are differences in terms and conditions, as well as other HR-related policies.  In the coming year, among other things, the goal is to engage with all hosts with the aim of developing an encompassing system as One- CaLP.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for an HR professional to provide professional HR advice and practical support on a broad range of employment issues to ensure that our employees have a positive and enriching employment experience with CaLP. The Human Resources Business Partner plays a central role in CaLP’s team, supporting the full range of our work to improve humanitarian aid around the world. This role includes getting involved across all of CaLP’s work.

This role includes getting involved across all of CaLP’s work, with the following dimensions:

• Provide guidance and expertise on people practices such as ways of working, succession planning, restructures, and employee relations.
• Support managers to get to the root of and address any people and business issues.
• Coach and provide feedback to help improve ways of working and efficiency.
• Support team members to resolve people management challenges.
• Build relationships across the team to support healthy ways of working and culture.
• Design, deliver, monitor and review change initiatives that relate to people practices.
• Develop, support and monitor achievement of the staff team training and development plans.
• Act as the CaLP team lead for safeguarding, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to keep people safe.
• Work with hosts for recruitment processes and negotiating grading.
• Support/work towards alignment as far as possible across CaLP team – irrespective of hosts
• Working closely with host agency HR teams, ensures effective delivery of HR administration and record keeping.
• Ensure all staff benefit from professional HR guidance & support, including the transitional and change stages CaLP will undergo in implementing its new 2020-25 Strategy
• Ensure relevant regulations and legal aspects of CaLP’s HR management and employment are followed, including taxation matters

Essential Technical skills, Experience and Knowledge:

• Competent HR professional, with prior experience of working as an HR Advisor or Business Partner within an international setting.
• Confident HR generalist with experience of working at both strategic and operational levels, balancing daily end-to-end employee life-cycle activities and multi-tasking is key.
• Coaching skills and experience of supporting performance development
• Experience of managing change and promoting effective working practices
• Knowledge and expertise of labour practices and laws and confidence to apply contextual judgement.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent facilitation skills.
• Passionate about people.

Desirable:

• Fluency in Arabic, French or Spanish, in addition to English
• Experience of working in a virtual network or remote team

NB – core personnel administration is provided by host HR departments, e.g., payroll, contract amendments, advertising of roles, filing of appraisals, etc.

We offer:

Grade C role, OGB contract

Our values and commitment to safeguarding:

This position is hosted by Oxfam GB. We are committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom CaLP and Oxfam GB engages. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up-to-date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria listed above.  Please apply via this link. 

Closing date: 1st December 2021  (while applying, you will be directed from CaLP website to Oxfam website automatically)

Flexible location with meetings in Shelter London and Sheffield offices

Closing date: 06 December 2021 at 11:30pm

Interview Date: 13 December 2021 (subject to change if required)

Are you a strategic HR Business Partner with demonstrable experience of partnering with a variety of services to deliver business objectives? Do you want to work with one of the UK’s leading housing and homelessness charities to enable the delivery of our exciting new strategy?

About you

Already an accomplished HR Business Partner, you will be able to hit the ground running, offering people management support and enabling the People strategy across a range of Shelter’s services.

You will have:

• The ability to build positive working relationships with senior leaders, offering strategic insight, coaching and playing the role of the critical friend where appropriate.
• Demonstrable experience partnering with leadership teams to deliver organisational change.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to successfully share information with diverse groups of people, helping to build their understanding of people management practices and policies.
• Detailed, up-to-date, working knowledge of employment law, being CIPD qualified or equivalent or demonstrable relevant experience

About the role and team

In this key role, you will build influential relationships with our leadership teams and provide strategic partnering to identify goals and priorities, translating these into clear People plans to support the achievement of business objectives. You will support constructive conflict management, with the ability to lead on challenging situations and empower mangers to do the same.

In addition, you will work with the Head of HR Business Partnering and Employee Relations on the continued development and delivery of the wider People and Culture plan and share responsibility with Learning & Organisational Development colleagues to create, deliver and evaluate training for our people.

Situated within the Strategy Enablement directorate, the HR Delivery department is on its way to becoming a centre of excellence, with the HR Business Partner role playing a significant part in this. We are happy to discuss flexible working and what we can do to support your development as an HR professional.

About Shelter

A home is a fundamental human need. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle daily with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, motivated individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent. We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society. 

Any applications submitted without a supporting statement will not be considered.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave (pro rata), enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Job purpose and background

Are you passionate about the environment and sustainability? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment? This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior HR Business Partner to shape, influence, and support the delivery of strategy and plans.

As the Senior HR Business Partner, you will work closely with your department to influence and guide leadership teams on people-related topics. You will apply latest thinking and best practice to provide strategic and tactical consultation and guidance that optimises people practices and processes, structures, and culture. Reporting into the Global Director of HR and People Development, you will be part of a supportive CDP people team and will work with a large degree of autonomy.

About the People Team

CDP’s HR team is a growing, global and high performing team who enjoy working together, building strong relationships across the organisation to deliver consistent HR services to our stakeholders. You will join us as we prepare to launch our strategy to 2025 designed to support the significant growth in CDP. The focus of the strategy is on developing and empowering CDP’s People.

Key responsibilities include:

You will partner with Function Leadership teams to drive organisational performance by providing strategic and operational HR guidance across a range of people-focused areas.

Business Partnering

• Provide strategic people subject matter expertise to the leadership team
• Partner and influence leaders to ensure people-informed decisions are made
• Develop and deliver a function people plan which supports CDP’s strategic priorities
• Drive effective organisation design and strategic workforce planning
• Lead on organisation restructuring activities as required to improve clarity of roles
• Lead on the continuous improvement of performance management and talent management across the function, embedding ED&I into practices and processes
• Partner leaders on strategic and tactical compensation- and reward-related decisions
• Influence leadership on the prioritisation of employee engagement and communications
• Coach and partner leaders on people-related issues
• Support the embedding of People policies and processes within the Function so that they are effectively carried out
• Identify desired culture and collaborate with teams on delivering change
• Support the function with organisational change activity

Functional HR

• Contribute to the development and delivery of the people strategy
• Work closely with the Global Director and wider people team to ensure an aligned and cohesive people experience across CDP globally
• Identify opportunities to streamline people processes to improve their adoption, using feedback and insights
• Work with the people team to successfully deliver key people initiatives and processes to drive performance (HR, L&D, Internal Comms etc.)

You will have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria:

• CIPD qualified and/or membership
• A demonstrated understanding across the broad range of HR areas
• A strong track record as a HR Business Partner
• Interpersonal savvy and a collaborative leadership style
• Ability to influence others into action and to think creatively about solutions.
• Persuasive advisor, comfortable in interacting with senior and executive management in complex global matrix organisations
• Strong communication skills at all levels with ability to build strong relationships
• Good judgement with ability to balance organisational and people needs
• An engagement and innovation presentation style and facilitation skills
• A demonstrated ability to translate strategy into tangible action
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent organisation and project management skills
• Experience of delivering and supporting organisation change with a strong knowledge and understanding of employment law in relation to change management activities

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a global, matrix organisation
• Exposure to overseas legal environments (e.g APAC, North America, Europe) would be helpful but not essential

This is a full time role based at CDP’s London office reporting to the Global Director of HR and People Development

Salary and benefits: £50,000 - £55,000 per annum, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, Training and development, Flexible working opportunities and other benefits.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK. We cannot sponsor this role.

Before you apply

We’ll only use the information you provide to process your application. By uploading your CV and covering letter, you are permitting CDP to use the information you have provided for recruitment purposes.

How to apply:

Please visit our website to upload your CV and a covering letter as an additional document setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages. The deadline is midnight on 7th December 2021.

HR Business Partner

Are you looking for the opportunity to work as a true HR Business Partner to a diverse client group?

Are you passionate about the difference HR can make with a deep interest in Equality & Diversity?

We are looking for a HR Business Partner to join a small, highly professional and closely-knit team that supports the purpose and needs of the organisation to achieve the five-year people strategy. This is a true generalist role in which you will collaborate with the HR Service Centre team and Learning and Development Manager to deliver appropriate advice and guidance to a specific customer group.

Position: HR Business Partner

Location: London Bridge

Hours: Full-time

Contract: 18 Month FTC

Salary: £40,656 per year, rising to £41,556 after 1 year and successful probation

Benefits: Company Mobile Phone, Company Pension, Employee Discounts, Generous Holiday, Flexible Working Environment, In House Training, Progression Opportunities.

Closing Date: 14th December

Interview Date: Between 22nd Nov – 13th Dec

The Role

You will act as HR partner to managers in a specified client group, enabling the delivery of the highest level of service quality to service users through the organisations people. You will play an instrumental role in the transformation of services in line with the five-year strategy, including taking a lead role on any reward-related activity

Some other main responsibilities of the role include:

• To coach and develop line managers to role model the organisation values and promote diversity
• Liaise with the Learning and Development Manager to support and promote the annual In-house Learning and Development portfolio into services
• Drive and guide the organisation in achieving success in their Disability Confident Employer journey
• Provide specialist advice and guidance to the HR team and to managers on all aspects of HR policy, practice and employee relations, discussing with, or referring matters to, the Director as required

About You

As HR Business Partner, you will have experience as a HR Business Partner in a fast paced, change oriented environment and will have excellent communication and relationship building skills. Knowledge of TUPE, restructuring, change consultation, coupled with sound employment law knowledge, you will have an experience or interest in the design and delivery of diversity and inclusion. Excellent written skills, numerate and attention to detail, with good IT skills are essential for this role.

If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, flexible and solution focused way then this may be the role for you!

About the Organisation

The charity supports adults and children in crisis across London and the surrounding regions, as well as campaigning and advocating nationally on the issues that affect them. This includes victims of modern slavery, women and children who have experienced domestic abuse, young care leavers and older people. From giving someone a home, to helping them to get the right mental health support, the organisation supports people at the moment of crisis and enables them to build a life beyond crisis.

If offered a role, you will be issued a conditional offer based on satisfactory references and an Enhanced disclosure/DBS check.

As provided for by the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the "HSC Act"), all staff who work at or attend CQC registered care homes are required to be vaccinated against Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) with an authorised vaccine as defined by the HSC Act (unless otherwise exempt) i.e. If your normal place of work will fall within the scope of this legislation OR You may be required to work from or attend a location which falls within the scope of this legislation from time to time in line with operational requirements.

We recommend that you apply at your earliest convenience as the charity will screen applications as they are received as well as interview and appoint suitable candidates on this basis.

You may also have experience in areas such as HR, Human Resources, Personnel, HR Business Partner, Human Resources Business Partner, HR Partner, Human Resources Partner, HR Manager, Human Resources Manager, Personnel Manager, HR Lead, Human Resources Lead, HR Generalist, Human Resources Generalist, People Partner.

Senior POD Business Partner - Operations

Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Flexible throughout Central England
Salary: £54,565 actual per annum (depending on skills and experience) + £5,000 market supplement
Working Hours: 35 per week

Closing Date: 7 December 2021
Interview Date: TBC via Zoom/Teams

Reference Number - VAC2658

Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading dementia charity. We provide information and support, improve care, fund research, and create lasting change for people affected by dementia.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior People and Organisational Development Business Partner (Senior PODBP) to work with our Operations directorate, influencing and enabling the delivery of our local and national information, advice and support services. You will drive forward the people agenda within the Operations directorate operating both strategically and tactically to provide expert and professional people leadership and guidance, supporting the directorate to promote a high-performance culture which enables their strategic and operational goals. You will lead and develop a team of HR Business Partners and work in close partnership with the National Volunteering Team to ensure excellent business-focused people advice.

As a leader you will drive forward an inclusive, collaborative, high-performance environment, supporting our values and expected standards of behaviour to be embedded across the Operations directorate, starting with your own team.

Reporting to the Head of People Partnering, you will be responsible for leading an efficient and progressive business partnering service that delivers expert and appropriate workforce management, leadership and guidance for the directorate. You will ensure our values and volunteering ethos are embedded across the directorate and lead the development and delivery of directorate specific plans and initiatives that drive improvements in the directorate’s capability, capacity and impact for people affected by dementia.

About you

You will be experienced in advising on complex employee relations matters and be confident liaising with and challenging senior stakeholders. You operate with gravitas; a strategic thinker and confident at decision making. You are excited by an environment where there is lots of change happening at the same time, being comfortable with transformational and operational change.

You'll be a first-class people manager able to inspire, coach and unite people towards a common goal. You’ll demonstrate compassion – operating with kindness and empathy and not shying away from tough conversations. You’ll be comfortable with working and leading through ambiguity. And demonstrate sound judgement in the evidence-led decisions you make for us.

If you're interested in being part of this exciting future, we want to hear from you. We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications for all people. If you are considering applying, and something is holding you back – just give us a call, we love to talk!

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer's Society.

You can also visit our Working for Us pages, which give you more information about what it’s like to be an employee at the Society.

You may have experience of the following: Business Partner, BPO, Process Outsourcing, Head of Services, Operations Manager, Finance Business Partner, Commercial Finance Manager, Financial Control Manager, CIMA, ACCA, ACA, Business Modelling, Compliance Management, Business Management, Financial Accountant, Financial Controller, Management Accountant etc.

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HR Business Partner
Full or part time
Permanent or 12 month contract
Homebased with flexibility to travel as necessary

This charity provides free, confidential support to people experiencing issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health. It derives almost all its income from commissioning bodies such as local authorities and NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups. The intention is to establish an integrated business development function that coordinates the expertise and input of departments across the organisation. To achieve this a number of subject matter experts are being sought who will be embedded within specialist teams but who will hold a specific brief for contributing to an invigorated business development programme; HR, Clinical, Finance, Data Analysis.

This is a new role. Your remit will be to work with the business development team in their pursuance of high quality tender responses for contracts. You will lead on a variety of areas including TUPE, workforce design, learning and development, and culture, in addition to anticipating the people and organisational development implications associated with the development and acquisition of new services.

The role offers a rare opportunity to apply your subject matter expertise at a strategic business development level and to contribute to a collective effort to achieving lasting change not just for the charity itself but for the people, households and communities that With You supports to be safe and healthy.

Location: Any UK Trust office - with occasional travel

Interviews: 1st stage is 9th / 10th December. 2nd stage is 15th December

We have an exciting opportunity to join our HR People Partnering team. We are recruiting a People Partner to support our UK-wide Delivery function, partnering a range of senior stakeholders by designing and implementing People & Learning interventions that support business plans, drive performance and inspire people to do their best work for young people.

As a member of the People & Learning team, this role will work collaboratively across the ‘Centres of Excellence’ (Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, HR Services, Talent & Organisational Development, and Learning) to drive local initiatives in support of the People & Learning Strategy and be a champion of best practice.  Although part of the People & Learning Team, this role will be embedded within the Delivery Directorate working closely with Delivery Directors in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and being part of the leadership teams for these areas. 

This is a great opportunity to continue the amazing work that is taking place by getting close to the day to day challenges, opportunities and successes, supporting both strategic and operational activities by building strong, trusted relationships and developing people initiatives - a fantastic opportunity to continually learn and develop alongside truly passionate people.

Please click 'apply now' to be directed to our website for more information and to apply.

Perks for working at The Trust:

• Great holiday package! 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays. Office closure the days between Christmas and New Year
• Fantastic Family leave! Receive 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay for maternity and adoption leave. Receive 8 weeks full pay for paternity leave.
• Flexible working! Where operationally possible, you can work hours to fit in with, school hours or care arrangements for example and you can also work from home.
• Interest-free season ticket loans
• Benefits platform! Everything from health and financial wellbeing support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas
• In-house learning platform! Develop your skills for your career and your role
• The Trust will contribute 5% of your salary to the Trust Pension Scheme
• You can volunteer for and/or attend events – music festivals, The Prince’s Trust Awards, active events etc.
• Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)

HR Business Partner (Maternity cover)

Fixed term contract - 12 months

£49,284

• Are you a strong generalist HR BP?
• Do you have experience of project work as well?
• Are you CIPD qualified (or equivalent)

If so, an international charity may be interested in speaking with you.

The role -

To Business Partner with UK and regional divisions, develop and deliver HR plans and solutions, and provide guidance and support to key stakeholders

In addition, you will undertake key operational people projects and initiatives

Duties -

• Provide proactive HR Business Partnering advice and support to London and international satellite offices on all aspects of the employee lifecycle including:
• recruitment and selection,
• induction,
• performance management,
• job design/evaluation,
• engagement and wellbeing,
• employee relations.
• lead projects and delivery of new HR Policies, Processes and Practices to strengthen equality, diversity and inclusion agenda,
• Manage trade union relations

To be considered, you will have previous HR Business Partner experience, and be CIPD qualified (or equivalent)). International charity experience would be desirable

The company offers complete flexi working - 100 percent home, or a mix of home and office. You will be joining a supportive team and a charity that undertakes some great work to support women worldwide

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• Update and maintain records to ensure data is kept up to date
• Consistent generalist HR advice and support
• Encourage early interventions and proactive management within the business
• Lead on the management of Employee Relations casework
• Support employment tribunals, data protection breaches and data loss

Client Details

A housing association based in Central London, looking to expand their HR team.

Description

• Proven experience in managing complex Employee Relations from start to finish
• Knowledge of Employment Law and HR best practice
• Work independently
• Proven time management

Profile

The successful Assistant HR Business Partner will be good at maintaining records and have solid generalist HR experience.

Job Offer

• Hybrid working
• Pension scheme
• Health care scheme

I have an excellent Interim Assistant HR Business Partner role with a regulatory body based in London, but the role can be carried out on hybrid-working basis predominantly remotely.  This role is to the end of December 2022 initially and will report to the Head of HR Business Partnering.

The role will pay £40,451 per year and will involve business as usual, HR generalist work including working in partnership with HR team members to ensure pay and employee relations issues are managed to a high quality, ensuring adherence to legislation, policies and terms and conditions.  You will also contribute to strategic HR projects and deputise for HR Business Partners as required.

Some of the key responsibilities and results areas include:

• To quickly and effectively build and maintain strong and credible relationships with managers at all levels within the client area and to develop in-depth understanding of the work of the organisation.
• To provide advice to managers to contribute to effective management of staff and meet governance requirements.
• To effectively advise on and manage employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, absence management and performance.
• To work in partnership with managers at a strategic level to constructively challenge and identify opportunities for change and development.
• To advise on organisational change initiatives in line with policy and legal frameworks, and working to ensure engagement of staff
• To contribute to strategic HR projects as agreed with Head of HR Business Partnering.

If this sounds like the role for you, apply now.

I have an excellent Interim Assistant HR Business Partner - Change role with a regulatory body based in London, but the role can be carried out on hybrid-working basis predominantly remotely.  This role is to the end of December 2022 initially and will report to the Senior HR Business Partner.

The role will pay £40,451 per year and will involve work related to organisation-wide transformation and change, which you must have experience of, to deliver a business focused HR service that meets the needs of the Transformation Programme. You will work in partnership with HR team and subject matter experts to support the delivery of the end to end delivery of HR processes in line with the organisations Managing Organisational Change Policy. You will also work closely as part of the Transformation Programme’s Integrated Implementation Plan (IIP) for the new organisation structure with a consultant delivery partner team.  The post holder will also be required to deputise for the Senior HR Business Partner – Change, in relation to these areas of work as required.

Some key responsibilities and results areas include:

• To quickly and effectively build and maintain strong and credible relationships with HR colleagues and subject matter experts, and senior managers within the Transformation Programme to ensure the HR project plan aligns with the HR critical path within the IIP.
• To oversee the review and progression of the HR project plan working closely with HR colleagues leading on specific processes/or activities, inc:
  1. To plan the evaluation all new roles in the organisation using the Civil Service Job Evaluation Grading scheme.
  2. To plan and co-ordinate the implementation of the mapping and job matching, paper-based selection and interview selection processes.
  3. To plan and co-ordinate the redeployment process following mapping and matching process alongside the internal selection process.
• To advise, as required, on organisational change initiatives in line with policy and legal frameworks.
• To contribute to strategic HR projects to support the Implementation IIP, as agreed with Senior HR Business Partner - Change.

If this sounds like the role for you, apply now

I am excited to be working with an amazing charity in search of an HR Partner. This is an excellent and rare opportunity for an outstanding HR Partner to join a friendly and experienced team on either a part-time (28 hours) or full-time basis (35 hours) per week. The team provide comprehensive high-quality HR support to staff, clergy and parishes. The role will cover a wide range of activities, including HR advice and guidance (for employee, office holder and volunteer situations), recruitment of staff, project support, contributions to policy development and to be the 'go to' day-to-day HR specialist within the organisation.

Job Purpose:
To provide comprehensive and professional HR services and support, working closely with our staff, clergy and parishes.
To be responsible for recruitment projects, i.e. working closely with line managers to identify requirements, ensuring that comprehensive job and person specifications are prepared, the salary ranges are approved via the Remuneration Committee, job application packs and advertisements are prepared, approved and issued.
Advise on appropriate and cost-effective sourcing/recruitment solutions.
Facilitate short-listing process, arrange and participate in interviews.
Manage the job offer process, from preparation and issue of offer letters and contracts, taking up references and co-ordinating all other associated checks, such as social media.
Facilitate the preparation of a comprehensive induction for new employees, together with line managers.

Policies and Pay:
To draft and update HR policies, processes and procedures for review with the HR Director, prior to submissions to the senior leadership team for approval. To manage the implementation and communication of updated policies, processes and procedures.
To manage the Pensions provision for staff, ensuring that auto enrolment legislation is adhered to.
To prepare salary recommendations for new or revised roles, taking internal and external salary comparisons into account.
To arrange the annual pay review meeting, i.e. provide background data, draft recommendations, in consultation with the HR Director, in readiness for review with Bishop's Leadership Team (BLT) and Bishop's Council.
To prepare monthly payroll changes ready for authorisation and communicating to the finance team.

General:
To advise managers on HR best practices across a range of HR topics, including recruitment, performance management, employment practices, disciplinary and grievance processes.
To oversee the management of the staff holiday records system and staff sickness absence.
To manage disciplinary, capability, exit and redundancy processes, when applicable, alongside line managers.
To administer staff annual appraisals.
To support line manager on identifying training and development needs for DBF staff; source cost effective training and arrange, as required.
To manage and maintain the HRIS system ('Breathe').
To be responsible for HR administration for all DBF staff, i.e. processing of all documentation from recruitment through to leaving.
To keep up to date on employment legislation and HR best practices.
Lead on process and communications for any statutory leave or other leave requests (maternity, paternity, shared parental, or adoption leave etc.)
To undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by the HR and Safeguarding Director.

HR for clergy and parishes:
To provide guidance and support to clergy on any HR and policy-related queries, ensuring that queries are followed up swiftly and responded to by the most appropriate person.
To manage clergy sickness absence records.
To provide guidance and support to parishes on HR queries, ensuring that queries are followed up and responded to, or signpost to the most appropriate person.
To ensure that the HR toolkit is an up-to-date source of good HR guidance and practice.

Person specification:
Previous experience of operating in a professional environment such as legal services or a large charity/public sector organisation.
Providing HR advice to managers at all levels in an organisation.
Development of HR policies and good practice guidance.
Experience of managing an HR Information System (HRIS).

Knowledge:
Strong working knowledge of UK employment legislation and the ability to apply these to a variety of situations, using a pragmatic and common sense approach.
Knowledge and understanding of personalities and behavioural styles in order to work collaboratively.
Knowledge of the Church of England, its organisation and governance structures.
Knowledge of applying HR knowledge within the Church of England legislative framework.
Conversant with clergy terms of service.
Use of aptitude/psychometric tests for recruitment and selection.

Skills:
Strong planning and organisational skills. .
Pragmatic and solutions-orientated approach to resolving situations or issues.
Ability to balance conflicting priorities and workload challeng

Title: HR Advisor
Contract Type: Permanent, full time
Location: Office based 20-40% at either Sidcup or Stratford with regular travel to other offices

• Are you an experienced HR Advisor keen to work for a fast-paced people centred organisation?
• Do you have a proven track record of managing a complex range of ER casework?

Then this could be the role for you!

Our client is currently looking for a full-time experienced HR Advisor to join their dedicated Employee Relations team. Reporting to a Senior HR Advisor, you will support delivery of the HR service, by working alongside people managers across your designated business area.

You will have a proactive and collaborative approach with drive and enthusiasm to champion the service and the way it is delivered to our stakeholders.

This is a fast paced, employee relations focused advisor role which proactively advises, supports and coaches people managers across our business unit.

Sitting within a team of HR advisors you will work on a variety of cases, both high volume and varying in complexity, ensuring the best possible outcome for everyone. You will case manage your own case load and be responsible for updating the team and wider business on case performance and progress on a regular basis.

The HR Advisor role will suit someone who is a good communicator, agile in approach, able to translate business issues into proactive solutions whilst guiding, supporting and educating managers through formal business processes. You will need to be methodical, organised and have a strong ability to prioritise.

Ideally you will be CIPD-qualified, and or have experience in working as a HR Advisor in a multi-site, diverse operation at the level described, with exposure to high volume, complex case work.

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