Are you an improvement focussed HR business partner with a collaborative approach?
Are you purpose led and enjoy working with stakeholders?
Salary: £49,817 to £53,051per annumWorking Pattern: Full time – 37 hours per week (Part time hours considered)Contract type: Fixed term/Secondment opportunities until 31/03/2028Location: County Hall – Chichester, with hybrid working options available.
You will be working with the Senior HR Business Partners in the delivery of People Plans. You will become a trusted partner to stakeholders across your allocated area on:
- Comprehensive customer focused advice on HR, policies and practice
- Leading a variety of organisational change in the HR context
- Managing a large employee relations case load
- Reporting and analysing key HR metrics to influence the business
The role will require you to provide a professional, accurate and customer focused HR service under limited guidance.
About You
To be successful in this role:
- You will have the ability to provide comprehensive advice, interpretation and guidance on employment matters and HR policies, practices and processes. This will be to the business and may involve senior colleagues or specialist teams as appropriate.
- You will have a proven record of driving successful organisational change, including TUPE transfers.
- You will have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal credibly with our customers, senior managers and executives whilst being challenging, professional and commercially focused.
- You will have the ability to anticipate problems, plan solutions and make sound pragmatic problem-solving decisions, which will have a significant impact for a service or the organisation, particularly in relation to capacity, capability, flexibility and engagement.
- You will ideally have experience of working within a unionised environment.
Please read the Job Description attached for information on the Key Skills and Qualifications and Experience we are looking for.
Rewards
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this, we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
- an excellent local government pension scheme
- generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- arange of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependencyand adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
For a full list, please visit our Rewards and Benefits page.
Further Information
The reference number for this role isCRS01054.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Lucy F Stevens (HR Consultant) on LucyF.Stevens@westsussex.gov.uk or Faye Russell (Senior HR Business Partner) on faye.russell@westsussex.gov.uk
For issues or queries regarding your application please contact emma.cooper@westsussex.gov.uk
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.
Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.
We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application helppage.
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