Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade F. SCP 17 £31,022 - SCP 22 £33,699
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Base Location: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton under Lyne, OL6 6BH
Assessment Date: Interviews 7 October at Tameside One
To apply for this role please upload your CV together with a supporting statement that provides evidence of how you meet the essential requirements of the person specification
Please also include details of your education and training and employment history and any reference to your qualifications that are specified on the person specification within your CV/supporting statement.
The Role
Are you ready to take the next step in your HR career and make a meaningful impact in public services? If you're passionate about people, organisational development, and driving workforce transformation, we’d love to hear from you.
At Tameside Council, our People & Workforce Development Service plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organisation. We design, attract, and develop a skilled, agile, and inclusive workforce that delivers high-quality services for our residents. With a newly implemented structure and a clear vision through our People Plan, this is a dynamic and exciting time to join us.
About You
We’re looking for an Assistant HROD Business Partner to join our forward-thinking and supportive team. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development and delivery of strategic workforce initiatives, HR policy, and organisational change programmes. You’ll be involved in shaping solutions that address real workforce challenges, improve service delivery, and enhance employee experience.
As part of your professional development, you’ll benefit from:
* The opportunity to undertake the Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management supporting your progression into a confident and capable HROD professional.
* Structured placements across key areas of HR, including HR operations, employee relations, workforce planning and policy, giving you broad exposure and hands-on experience.
* Excellent peer support and career development opportunities, within a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is ambitious, solutions-focused, and committed to delivering high-impact HROD outcomes. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to be part of a team that’s shaping the future of public sector HR, we’d love to hear from you.
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about this role please contact Suzan Gregory (HROD Business Partner Manager) on suzan.gregory@tameside.gov.uk