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Are you a HR Business Partner, seeking your next contract with a large Local Authority?
My client has an immediate opportunity for a HR Business Partner to support delivery of the Local Authorities people strategy on an interim basis.
The successful applicant will balance their role as strategic advisor and member of the Senior Management Team to a specific service.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the strategic management as an extended member of the Senior Management Team to an allocated Directorate / Service, ensuring that people related issues are considered in the design and delivery of services.
• Partner with senior leaders to develop, implement, and embed HR strategies that support long-term goals, drive organisational performance and ensures financial sustainability.
• Lead initiatives around the design and delivery of restructuring, workforce planning, and transformation to ensure organisational agility and scalability. 
• Collaborate on succession planning, leadership development, and talent acquisition strategies to build a robust talent pipeline and support a culture of growing our own.
• Drive performance management processes and support capability building across teams.
• Commission and interpret HR analytics to inform evidence-based decisions, identify trends, and recommend proactive solutions. 
• Provide guidance on complex employee relations issues, ensuring compliance and mitigating risk in line with council policies, employment law and best practice to deliver innovative people solutions.
• To provide coaching and risk-based advice and support to senior managers and leaders, enabling and empowering them to make informed decisions while ensuring their accountability for decisions.
• To network and build positive relationships with key stakeholders and external partners. 
• To develop and maintain excellent trade union relationships, particularly regarding HR change and cultural development. 
• To ensure EDI is integral to the work of the function and adheres to all legal and mandatory requirements. 
• To chair working groups as requested, ensuring the needs of the department on a particular issue are clearly articulated and considered as appropriate.

Requirements:

• Significant leadership experience in HR Management within a local authority or complex public sector environment.
• Strong track record of leading HR teams, improving performance, and embedding robust service standards and SLAs.
• Experience of delivering transformation and process improvements in HR Operations, ideally in a unionised environment.
• Demonstrable experience of workforce resource analysis and capacity planning, including the application of technology to enhance efficiency.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage and reassure at all levels.
• Understanding of audit and compliance requirements within public sector HR operations.

To apply, please forward a copy of your CV

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