8732 - Senior HR Business Partner

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Wales; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department in the UK seeks a Senior Human Resources Business Partner. The role involves leading strategic HR conversations, coaching senior leaders, and implementing effective people management strategies. The ideal candidate will have strong HR consultancy skills and experience in developing leadership capabilities. This position requires collaboration with directors and their senior leadership teams to drive improvements in organizational design and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Strong HR professional with ability to establish relationships.
• Experience in managing HR interventions effectively.
• Ability to evaluate internal and external influences on workforce.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic conversations on people priorities.
• Provide strategic input on HR topics.
• Ensure effective workforce planning.
• Oversight of complex casework.

Skills

Strategic thinking

HR consultancy

Coaching

Leadership development

People management

Education

CIPD qualification or equivalent

Job description

Job Title: Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Grade: 7

Team/Directorate: MoJ People and Capability - HR Business Partnering (HMPPS)

Overview of the role:

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is responsible for everything that goes into running the UK’s criminal and civil justice systems, creating the foundations for a safe, fair and prosperous society. We are one of the largest government departments with over 88,000 staff based across England and Wales. We are responsible for 500 courts and tribunals, 122 prisons, the policies underpinning the system and much more.

MoJ People and Capability supports the organisation by enabling its people to be the best that they can be. We are continuously reviewing and enhancing the services we provide to ensure the delivery of high-quality services for our customers. MoJ People and Capability has over 1,400 committed and capable professionals delivering people services across the Justice family. At the heart of delivering these services are our people.

HR Business Partners work closely with Senior Leaders supporting the development of business strategies through HR Consultancy and Interventions on people issues, and successfully delivering change programmes and initiatives through comprehensive People change approaches.

This role sits within the HR Business Partnering (HMPPS) Team and will support a number of Directors across the Prison Group, Probation or HQ and their senior leadership teams within HMPPS.

Working within an HRBP team led by two Divisional Directors for HMPPS, you will report to a Grade 6 Area Lead HRBP.

You will be responsible for forging productive relationships with relevant senior leadership teams, enabling translation of business priorities and strategy into a coherent people agenda with targeted interventions.

Working alongside Directors and their Senior Leadership Team to design and deliver tailored HR interventions to drive improvements in effective leadership, people management, organisational design and development, change management and workforce strategy.

Key to this role is the need to be a credible HR professional with the ability to establish quality relationships. Working across the regional / expert services HR team, this role is the primary contact for senior stakeholders and success is reliant upon the strength and support of the rest of the HR Business Partnering (HMPPS) and MoJ People and Capability via Shared Services and Expert Services, as such the individual will need to be able to deliver through others.

You will be:

Leading the strategic business conversation on people priorities at a director level.
Continuously evaluating the impact of internal and external influences on the workforce.
Working with your Grade 6 leading and developing an HRBP team.
Sharing learning and evidence-based practice from across the Ministry of Justice, the wider Civil Service function and wider public and private sectors comparators.
Designing and/or commissioning large scale HR interventions from HR Centres of Expertise.
Coaching leaders on the implementation and timely and efficient delivery of planned and unplanned Human Resources programmes.
Playing a key role in driving up the standard of leadership and people management.

Responsibilities, Activities & Duties:

The post holder will be required to bring together the people priorities for their business area at a director level. Partnering anywhere between one and three Directors and their senior leadership teams dependent on the complexity of the customer group.

Strategic partnering: Contributing to the business conversation by supporting leaders to drive people strategies that enable depts/Arm’s Length Bodies to deliver their objectives.
Solving: Provide strategic input on HR topics and help leaders develop effective people solutions.
Connecting: Help the organisation draw on appropriate People Group services and shared service support
Coaching: Coach leaders on how to manage people issues and drive the people agenda effectively.

Key Delivery Strands:

Business & Culture Change

Development and implementation of HR strategy to drive and underpin One HMPPS
Working with Directors as part of Senior Management Teams to develop and implement HR and business strategy ensuring that HMPPS has the right structure, climate and capability to manage change and transition.
Advise on the people implications arising from significant change initiatives and provide technical HR/employment oversight.

Resourcing & Retention

Ensure effective workforce planning at a director level that aligns to budget allocations, and meets capacity and capability requirements, and deploys appropriate attraction, talent and development strategies.
To partner the business to execute appropriate resourcing strategies to include understanding the talent pipeline to SCS1 and Band 11 through succession planning and addressing appropriate development needs to develop credible successors

Leadership & Management Capability

Understand the leadership capability needs and develop and grow leadership capability and effectiveness through coaching, challenging and mentoring Directors on business and people issues.
Working through the Organisational Capability Team to obtain appropriate services to equip leadership teams to role model leading effective change.
Understand the management capability gaps and support the business to build capability.

Employee Relations

Oversight of complex casework, supporting Directors and their SLTs to access the right casework and legal advice.
Using casework intel to identify where further interventions may be appropriate to address cultural or individual behaviour change and management capability