Senior HR Business Partner Full Time Temporary

Senior HR Business Partner needed in Chichester £360.37 per day PAYE – Reference: 436223

This role:

• Acquire an in depth understanding of your assigned Directorate and their people challenges, providing proactive support that is tailored to their needs.
• Oversee the implementation of excellent employee relations practice including identifying and acting on underlying themes, issues and problems and working with senior leadership teams to address concerns.
• Provide challenge and support in setting the people agenda in large change management initiatives, including restructures and service redesign.
• Drive proactive HR interventions and planning processes, including talent identification, resource planning, succession planning and employee relations.
• Challenge senior managers on existing ways of working and support a change in their thinking.
• Interpret people metrics and translate them into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Interpret and cascade the HR strategy, implementing appropriate local interventions tailored for your Directorates and their needs.

Ideally candidates will:

• Have a proven record of success in leading teams of professional HR and Employee Engagement specialists to deliver organisational objectives.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal credibly with our customers, senior managers and executives whilst being challenging, professional and commercially focused.
• Up to date and expert knowledge and understanding of employment law, case law, and the application of this to decision making.
• Ability to establish, champion and drive the HR agenda, programmes and initiatives across Directorates and/or Services.
• Ability to build relationships with the business and support them to ensure they have the appropriate capacity, capability and engagement levels for the short, medium- and long-term horizons and to create an engaging work environment.
• Ability to identify significant and complex people risk and mitigate these through the application of expert advice.
• Level 7 CIPD qualification or equivalent.
• Substantial experience of leading and managing HR teams to ensure that all HR programmes and initiatives are delivered effectively and achieve the impact required.
• A good understanding of trade union negotiation and consultation practices and regulations and associated collective bargaining practices.
• Expertise in managing complex large-scale people change, reorganisations, and redundancy processes.

This is working full time hours on a temporary contract basis 

If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to katie@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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