HR Business Partner – Housing

Working on behalf of a Local Authority, Aatom Recruitment has an opportunity for a HR Business Partner – Housing on a 2 month contract with a possibility of an extension.

This position will be a total of 36 hours per week, with hours from 09:00am – 17:30pm.

Job Purpose:

• Provide thorough and technically comprehensive advice on a range of human resource and workforce development issues including but not limited to, employee relations, disciplinary and grievance, employment policies and procedure organisational design, resourcing, and succession planning.
• Working in partnership with managers at all levels to establish an excellent understanding of their service and the challenges they face to proactively identify opportunities for operational and strategic intervention.
• Provide high quality, focussed advice and guidance to managers in relation to organisational change and the application of the council’s formal employment procedures.

Job Specific Accountabilities:

• Plan and ensure the employee relations and advisory service delivery within a complex / diverse environment controlling the operational activities within it and ensure professional standards are delivered.
• Advise Directors, Senior Managers, line managers and other Stakeholders on issues relevant to the service area. Provide professional challenge and advice to colleagues, managers, and partner organisations.
• Expert professional advice, interpretation, information, support, and challenge are provided to Waltham Forest and external parties on the full range of operational, legislative, and strategic issues within human resources.
• To provide an effective and responsive HR service in order to meet customer needs and deliver the overall objectives of the Council, covering high risk and complex HR issues.
• Actively engage with stakeholders and partners ensuring organisational commitment to the delivery of HR projects through the use of effective influencing skills.
• Good working relationships with partners, managers, stakeholders including Trade Union officials are established, fostered and maintained.
• Users of the service express satisfaction with the way that their issues, problems and been dealt with and/or resolved.

Knowledge, Qualifications and Experience:

• Demonstrable record of achievement at a senior level in employee relations, specifically complex casework, TUPE, and strategic human resources projects.
• Experience of successfully managing employee relations issues in a timely way in a large organisation.
• Experience of planning and managing a mixed and varied workload of conflicting priorities responding effectively to the needs of all customers.
• Experience of report writing and communicating complex issues to a broad range of audiences.
• Experience in dealing with a range of complex and contentious matters requiring a consistently high degree of support, persuasion and advocacy and an awareness of major policy objectives, employment legislation and regulations.
• Experience of matrix managing and coordinating employees carrying out work across a range of major functions.
• Ability to lead on multiple and wide-ranging programmes and manage competing demands.
• High level of organisational and strategic awareness.

To get more information about this role and how to apply please contact Jordan 07950899682

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