Job Category : Management
Location : East Gate/ Spilman St, Carmarthenshire County Council
Hours Per Week :37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £19.66
Main Purpose of Job
To provide professional HR advice, guidance and support to Heads of Service, departmental managers, Head Teachers, and Governors considering departmental business objectives, corporate policies, and statutory requirements.
To support a range of strategic and operational HR projects including policy development and implementation.
Key responsibilities
1. Provide clear and timely advice on all employment aspects including employee relations, attendance management, contractual matters, organisational change and redundancy consultation, enabling managers and head teachers to make informed decisions and ensuring that statutory and legal obligations are met, and professional standards are maintained.
2. Develop an understanding of different service areas to provide high quality, practical and timely solutions effectively. Supporting workforce planning in these services, including the analysis and provision of relevant management information/workforce data, in conjunction with the team and Lead Business Partner.
3. Support collaborative working opportunities and work closely with People Management colleagues as appropriate to provide an integrated and shared service.
4. Contribute to overall policy development programme, lead on agreed policy areas, developing communication strategies to sit alongside agreed policies.
5. Responsible for developing and maintaining relevant processes and documentation to achieve consistency of approach in the provision of advice and guidance to managers, employees and headteachers.
6. Provide coaching and development to managers, staff, councillors, and School Governing Bodies to support their people management responsibilities. Develop and deliver training/briefing sessions for departmental and schools’ managers.
7. Advise departments and schools in the undertaking of disciplinary and grievance investigations, hearings and appeals considering relevant employment legislation and case law including quality assuring documentation prior to release for formal hearings.
8. Provide timely advice and support, including the analysis and provision of absence data, to departments and schools enabling effective attendance management and work collaboratively with Occupational Health Centre to reduce absence levels.
9. Attend Adult and/or Children Safeguarding strategy meetings to provide advice on employment issues in cases involving multi-disciplinary agencies, ensuring HR Professional Abuse Strategy Meeting records are maintained in an accurate and timely manner and relevant notifications to external organisations are undertaken.
10. Support the Recruitment Advisory Team in advising recruiting managers in developing and designing job profiles, advertisements and methods of interview with a view to attracting and appointing applicants with the requisite skills and aptitude.
11. Any other duty as is reasonable commensurate with the grade and competencies for the post.
Essential Criteria
Qualifications, Vocational training and Professional Memberships
CIPD Level 5 intermediate qualifications equivalent to degree standard
Associate Membership of the CIPD
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Job Related Skills and Competencies
Demonstrates proficient analytical skills and ability to diagnose trends.
Ability to analyse complex situations and provide timely and practical advice on personnel matters.
Excellent interpersonal skills and effective negotiation skills with a range of people and organisations, managing conflict as appropriate.
Research skills to prepare and present on a range of people management topics.
Able to work to deadlines and manage several projects.
Ability to think strategically and innovatively with diplomacy and political sensitivity.
Proficient IT skills, including Microsoft Office
Knowledge
Up to date knowledge of employment pensions and equalities legislation and best practice
Understanding of managing change principles
Knowledge of current workforce issues within local government
Understanding of Business Partner service delivery model
Experience
Demonstrable HR experience within a multi-disciplined organisation.
Proven experience of dealing with organisational change.
Experience of providing operational HR advice and guidance
Personal qualities
Ability to prioritise and respond positively when given a number of objectives.
Collaborative and flexible approach
Courage to challenge
Personally credible
Determined and resourcefulTeam orientated