HR Business Partner

About The Role

As an HR Business Partner and inhouse expert in your field you will have an excellent understanding of the organisation, its business strategy and customers, and a very good understanding of the people challenges faced by the organisation. 

You will work closely with management, employees and key stakeholders providing hands-on advice on people-related issues: talent management, employee relations, coaching/development, compensation, conflict management, organisational development and training. 

You will have experience of working in a matrix organisation and delivering HR strategies for multiple stakeholders, with varying business strategies and goals. A strategic enabler and influencer, skilled in establishing and driving HR programs/talent initiatives forward within specific company functions, while always ensuring they align with a company's business objectives.  

You will be responsible for delivering a wide range of HR business partnering services, providing proactive, value adding, strategically aligned support to the Council(s) and Publica in the development and delivery of people strategies to support the business goals of the organisation. 

You will need

- Relevant professional membership/qualification of governing body CIPD - Level 5 or above 
- In-depth knowledge and experience of employment legislation 
- Experience working in a matrix organisation 
- Ability to draft policy and employment documentation, and play a key core role in the successful delivery of HR initiatives
- Ability to facilitate and manage ongoing change

For more information about this role please see the Job Description/Person Specification.
 
Special Conditions

- Use of a car for work purposes
- BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard check)/DBS Check

What we can do for you

- Agile working allowing a mix of home and office working
- Flexible working arrangements (depending on the role)
- 27 days paid annual leave (pro rata if you are working part time) plus bank holidays and an extra two volunteering days off a year for you to support a charity of your choice
- Renewed again for another year there is a health cash plan giving you cash back on health, dental and eye care
- Pension scheme with a good employer contribution of up to 7% of your earnings
- Employee Assistance Programme 24/7, providing positive, preventative and supportive advice and counselling to deal with everyday events and issues
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car lease scheme with significant tax and NI savings to be made on electric cars
- Generous sickness cover above statutory entitlements
- Additional income protection, covering 50% of your salary for potentially a further five years if you are unable to work due to sickness or injury
- Life assurance, currently four times your annual salary 

About The Organisation

You will be employed by Publica Group Ltd which was created by four partner Councils (West Oxfordshire District Council, Cotswold District Council, Cheltenham Borough Council and Forest of Dean District Council) to deliver more efficient and improved services. 
 
Publica is committed to meeting its statutory and moral duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people under 18 years of age and adults at risk who are the recipients of its services and/or activities.

Publica is a unique place to work, established to transform the way local services are delivered, fundamentally rethinking the way our services are designed and delivered in a digital era, making us a customer-focused organisation driven by real user needs.