Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Truro, is currently looking to recruit an People and OD Partner for a 6 month fixed term contract on a salary of £48,526-£54,619.
Responsibilities:
- In conjunction with the People & OD senior team, implement the People and OD Strategy in support of their business objectives.
- Provide assurance to the People & OD Service Manager of the development, implementation and delivery of the People and OD strategy through reporting on the progress in the achievement of the Key Performance Indicators set, and the achievement of individual mutually agreed objectives.
- Provide effective strategic support and advice to care groups to shape change management and business transformation initiatives in line with policy.
- Play an active role in the annual business planning cycle, ensuring that a System wide, integrated approach is taken to workforce planning including wider workforce projects.
- Understand the key drivers and challenges to help plan and provide assurance that local workforce plans are viable and are supporting the corporate workforce plan.
- Jointly monitor progress in the implementation of local workforce plans across the client groups to ensure the attainment of targets.
- Support the clients in planning their local learning and development needs, as part of the annual business planning cycle.
- Ensure that recruitment and retention hotspots are identified at an early stage, and take a pro-active, planned approach to ensure their resolution.
- Act as the gateway or facilitator for core People and OD services to ensure the appropriate HR strategy, support, and HR requirements are delivered and the required agreed outcomes delivered.
- Manage all Employee Relations (ER) activity to ensure that our appropriate policies and procedures are adhered to and that we deliver ER interventions within the agreed timeframes.
- Act as the subject matter expert for all ER related matters within the care group and take leadership responsibility.
- Refer all ER issues that fall outside of the People Partner team capability to the People and OD Service Manager and report any failures to achieve agreed timeframes on cases.
- Manage all ACAS and Employment Tribunal related issues arising.
- Personally, support the investigation and resolution of very complex employee relations cases, including matters regarding medical staff performance, conduct or attendance and employment tribunals.
- Promote the use of informal resolution of people management issues within the client groups, in line with Policy to ensure that the number of formal cases is kept to a minimum.
- Undertake mediation (if qualified) where working relationships have broken down in order to achieve successful team working between relevant parties, at all levels within the organisation.
- To contribute to the development and implementation of a framework of employment policies in line with best practice and in compliance with current employment legislation, terms and conditions of service and regulatory body requirements as appropriate, ensuring accurate and timely consultation and communication. This will include the related joint discussions to seek agreement on the adoption and implementation with trade union representatives.
- To ensure policies, procedures and guidance support cost reduction, increased efficiency and enable patient focused and efficient service delivery.
- Support management of service reviews, jointly planning change and undertaking consultation with colleagues and their representatives.
- Work with the Head of People Experience and their team to promote and facilitate staff survey and staff engagement including interpretation of data, links to strategies and plans and proactively support the implementation of any resulting action plans. Share with any positive changes that getting the feedback from the staff survey has provided, therefore potentially improving completion rates for the following year.
- Support the delivery of National and local HR performance standards and provide evidence including to external bodies.
- Produce formal reports, undertaking analysis, evaluation of data and present findings to executives and senior management as required.
- Assess and recommend potential courses (making clear any associated risks) of action on highly complex, specialist HR issues in sometimes pressurised circumstances. These may have conflicting priorities with no existing precedent and will require the post holder to balance risk versus cost to the organisation.
- On occasion take formal minutes of externally commissioned investigations at the highest level including highly sensitive information.
- To contribute to the provision of a high quality operational human resource service at a consistent standard, meeting agreed key performance indicators and service level standards and benchmarking against best practice.
- Support the mainstreaming of Equality, Diversity & Inclusions and the implementation of the Equality & Diversity Strategy and demonstrate this in day to day decision.
- Support with respect to compliance with various requirements such as CQC outcomes, internal/external audit, Information Governance and various legal requirements including the Equality Act and associated public sector duty and employment law.
- To identify opportunities for innovation and improvements to HR practice and systems of work within the HR function with the aim of ensuring the services are business focused and add value.
- Provide HR expertise to the Care Group Management Teams on HR aspects of risks, with respect to learning outcomes and subsequent action planning.
- Undertake analysis and interpret trends in order to ensure the client groups are provided with appropriate information and challenge, including benchmarking information where relevant, in partnership with the People Information Team.
Essential Skills:
- Chartered MCIPD or equivalent HR and or OD Qualification or equivalent work experience
- Specialist HR Knowledge & Experience, at Masters level or equivalent
- Evidence of ongoing continuous professional development
- Significant and varied experience in People and OD activity, working with managers to deliver high quality HR services with proven successful outputs
- Experience of business planning and developing workforce strategy
- Experienced in leading the workforce aspects of major change programmes and the associated employee relations requirements
- Strong strategic influencing and negotiating skills on highly complex and sensitive issues
- Ability to interpret and apply HR knowledge to workforce strategy
- Up to date knowledge of key issues in human resources and in local, regional and national networks and issues outside the organisation.
- Emotional toughness, resilience and ability to work autonomously
Desirable Skills:
- Employment law qualification
- Experience of working in similar environment
- Experience of workforce analysis and benchmarking
- TUPE experience
- Experience of leading and motivating team
- Trained mediator and strong coaching skills
- Manpower planning and workforce development skills
- Skilled in preparing graphic and charts to extract and present information
- Project management skills
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.