HR Business Partner

McKinlay Law; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading barristers' chambers seeks an HR Business Partner for operational and strategic support. This role emphasizes talent acquisition, diversity, and effective people management, enabling real change within the organization. Ideal candidates will be CIPD qualified with essential HR experience, preferably in legal or corporate settings.

Qualifications

• CIPD qualified with strong generalist HR experience.
• Preferably from the legal sector (chambers/law firm).
• Experience with equality, diversity, and resource planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide HR business partnering support, advice, and guidance.
• Facilitate implementation of people strategy and manage projects.
• Advise on employee relations cases and conduct annual reviews.

Skills

People business partnering

Talent acquisition

Employee relations

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Education

CIPD qualification

Job description

We are no longer accepting CVs for this position.

Applications for this role have now closed. If you have the relevant experience for this position, we may have similar roles now or in the future. If you would like to submit your CV on a general basis, please follow the link below:

Leading set of barristers’ chambers are looking for an HR Business Partner to provide high quality operational and strategic support and advice across the organisation; together with supporting the implementation of the People Strategy aligned to business objectives.

This is a new role, but a selection of duties include:

• People business partnering support, advice and guidance
• Talent acquisition, talent management and career development
• Equality, diversity inclusion and well being
• Supporting and coaching to facilitate effective people and performance management
• Facilitating implementation of people strategy and managing projects
• Administration of employee lifecycle processes ranging from the new starter process - issuing contractual documentation; undertaking pre-employment, and Safeguarding checks; facilitating Health & Safety inductions etc.; and processing leavers
• Collating annual reviews
• Advising on employee relations cases, e.g., monitoring absence, capability, and performance; disciplinary and grievances; etc. whilst assessing emerging or ongoing issues such as adverse references and checks.

It is essential that you are CIPD qualified and have strong generalist HR Business Partner experience, ideally in the legal sector (chambers or law firm) but they may also consider an HR professional coming from a corporate / professional services background. Ideally you will have considerable working knowledge of equality, diversity and inclusiveness and experience of workforce and resource planning.

Fantastic opportunity for an HR business Partner to join an organisation where they can bring about real change and have an impact on the running of the business.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.

McKinlay Law is the trading name of McKinlay Recruitment Services Ltd. Registered in England No. 03494294 VAT Reg. No. 707 6713 29.

Where we are?

McKinlay Recruitment Services Ltd.,
26-27 Bedford Square,
London, United Kingdom,
WC1B 3HP