This role may involve nationwide travel, we'd be happy to discuss the expected frequency and typical locations with you. Due to travel and training we will only progress applications for those located in the West and East Midlands areas.
We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures. We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us.
We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience, which helps ensure we provide a service which promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families we work with.
Role Overview
As a HR Business Partner, you will be part of our nationally dispersed HR Business Partnering team within the wider HR and OD team. You will work closely with HR colleagues and the Senior HR Management team to delivery operational and strategic HR outcomes, as a genuine Business Partner to senior managers and their extended management teams.
This is a great place to work as the HR service is critical to Cafcass achieving the best possible outcomes for children, working as it does in close partnership with operational staff and managers to enable them to deliver outstanding frontline and corporate support services.
Responsibilities
* Providing timely, accurate and robust advice and guidance on full range of routine and complex HR issues, including employee relations casework.
* Play a leading role in restructuring and change programme, including project planning, producing business cases and impact assessments and producing HR case plans.
* Provide direct, expert guidance to decision-makers throughout all stages of formal procedures.
* Provide support and expertise to senior HR colleagues to develop, progress and implement people management solutions.
* Forging close and influential working relationships with internal stakeholders.
Qualifications
* Experience and knowledge of HR issues, legislation, policies and procedures.
* Ability to operate in a high tempo environment, within a complex organisation.
* Effective interpersonal and communication skills, to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
* Capability to produce high quality written work.
* Commitment to contribute to the continuous improvement of frontline and corporate support services.
* A strong background in supporting line managers with people management and development issues; and
* A proactive approach to resolving employee relations casework, drawing on your strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
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