Senior HR Business Partner
Cabinet Office
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 1st December 2024
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Job summary
The Government Commercial Organisation (GCO) Senior HR Business Partner (SHRBP) role sits within the GCO People Services team. You will work closely with the other 4 SHRBPs as well as other key contacts within People Services to provide a full HR Business Partner offer to the GCO employees.
This role offers the opportunity to work with senior leaders and other key partners across the organisation to provide strategic direction, expert HR guidance and build capability across an exciting HR portfolio.
This is a challenging role where you will be expected to work closely with senior leaders deployed across a variety of Government departments. Therefore the successful candidate will need to be confident in working with and influencing senior stakeholders as well as having a strong ability to establish their credibility as an HR profession and partner to the business.
Job description
Responsibilities
The exact allocation of work will be shaped with you and the team. Responsibilities are likely to include though:
- Working in partnership with senior commercial colleagues including Commercial Directors’ providing a high quality HRBP service and supporting with a broad range of HR challenges and issues.
- Supporting leaders with a wide variety of complex casework issues including but not limited to; dispute resolution (grievance), conduct, attendance management, suspension etc.
- Being proactive in fostering a lessons learned culture and ensuring that appropriate interventions are put in place, minimising reputational and financial risk to the organisation.
- Building the capability of line managers and wider HR team through providing effective guidance and practical advice.
- Supporting the development of our culture through a range of intervention including rolling out training around behaviours.
- Engaging commercial clients around the performance management proccess and working with the Perfomance Management lead help ensure the smooth delivery of this critical process.
- Working in close partnership with HR colleagues to ensure policies, procedures and guidance are designed and delivered in a people-focused way, aligned with business needs.
- Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion through all work being delivered by the team and clients, aiming to enable a positive employee experience for all.
- Getting involved in a range of projects across the People Services team as and when required. For example, you may be asked to support with a policy refresh, or piloting a new system.
- Looking for opportunities for continuous improvement within People Services.
- Involvement in ad hoc projects including taking the lead on FOI/SARs for the areas that you partner.
Person specification
Essential
- Able to build effective relationships with a variety of stakeholders, particularly senior ones, so that you can influence them to make positive long term people decisions.
- Strong experience of advising managers on processes of HR casework including dispute resolution (grievance), disciplinary (conduct) and attendance processes.
- Ability to use a range of HR good practice, strategies and data to develop approaches that help professionalise our HR service offer.
- Be both positively challenging and open to being positively challenged, to help shape thinking and ensure a strong delivery ethos. Having the confidence to act as a critical friend with senior stakeholders, using your HR expertise to provide key challenges.
- Be curious and able to work within a complex HR structure and willing to use your initiative to develop ways of getting the best outcomes to meet business needs.
- Maintain personal effectiveness when dealing with challenging situations.
- Strong personal resilience when dealing with often emotive and challenging cases.
- Good knowledge of UK employment law and best practice in HR.
- CIPD membership or willingness to work towards this.
Additional information:
A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. Although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role.
- An environment with flexible working options.
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.
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Selection process details
Application process
At the application stage we will be assessing experience.
Please provide a CV and a personal suitability statement of up to 750 words outlining how you meet the essential criteria for this role.
Selection process
At interview, we will be assessing Behaviours and strengths.
The Behaviours we will be assessing are;
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
Expected timeline (subject to change)
Expected sift date – w/c 1st December
Expected interview date/s – 17th and 18th December
Interview location - Your interview will either be conducted face to face or by video. You will be notified of the location if you are selected for interview.
Further Information
A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.
Any move to Cabinet Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service or Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk
Please be aware the levels of national security clearance are changing which may impact on the level needed for this role by the time of appointment. All efforts will be made to keep candidates informed of any changes and what that will mean in terms of vetting criteria. For more information please See our vetting charter
Please note that this role requires CTC clearance, which would normally need 3 years UK residency in the past 3 years. This is not an absolute requirement, but supplementary checks may be needed where individuals have not lived in the UK for that period. This may mean your security clearance (and therefore your appointment) will take longer or, in some cases, not be possible.
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
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This role is full time only. Applicants who wish to work an alternative pattern are welcome to apply however your preferred working pattern may not be available and you should discuss this with the vacancy holder before applying.
Reasonable Adjustment
If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
Contact Government Recruitment Service via cabinetofficerecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section in the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Fraser Wightman
- Email : fraser.wightman@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : cabinetofficerecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk. For further information on the Recruitment Principles. and bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website at: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk.
