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Your new company
This is an opportunity to join a large value-led and established public sector organisation with a clear social mission, strong organisational values including constant actions to create an inclusive and supportive culture. This is an award-winning organisation recognised for a range of achievements including social contribution and innovation etc. This hybrid role is based on their purpose-built, modern facility with free car parking, restaurant, coffee shops, sports hall and gym...so when you are in the office you can benefit from a great working environment. Are you experienced HR leader who wants to join an organisation where you can truly make a difference? Read on.

Your new role
Hybrid role - 60% onsite in Bristol.
This HR leadership post has a large HR team including HR Business Partners. You will utilise your strategic and tactical HR expertise in this pivotal post and be responsible for HR activities across a number of areas including:

• Leading, managing and developing an efficient and effective HR function in the successful provision of an outstanding professional service which enables the organisation to achieve its goals.
• Ensuring the HR team delivers confident, compliant employment relations and people change management.
• Effective and efficient development, oversight and coordination of policies, procedures, systems and practices to meet ethical, legal and professional standards and wider business requirements.
• Collaborating and contributing to the development of organisational plans and strategies.
• Promoting and embedding a culture of learning and continuous improvement, innovation, health and wellbeing, inclusion and high -performance leadership within the department.

What you'll need to succeed

• You will need extensive experience leading HR teams, strategic and tactical HR expertise, ideally in larger, more complex, public service organisations - effectively leading, managing, developing and supporting teams of people and specialist functions.
• Significant experience of supporting people change such as department/organisation restructure, TUPE or other substantial change.
• Evidence of operating and influencing stakeholders at a senior level within an organisation including trade unions.
• Demonstrable background of successful people management and accountability for effective performance management.
• Track record implementing successful development, change and innovation - constructively and tactfully challenging the status quo in the interest of the organisations success.
• Well versed in having accountability and effective management of budgets and financial resources.
• Strong technical HR knowledge including legal, political, economic, social, technological and environmental factors.
• Proven track record developing and managing effective operational plans and strategies.
• Ability to facilitate, influence and encourage innovation and change to drive improvement.
• History of building and sustaining successful working relationships and collaborations internally and externally
• Success in managing business operations/services and projects/initiatives.
• Effective in managing quality assurance, performance and continuous improvement.

What you'll get in return
This organisation offers a competitive salary coupled with an impressive range of benefits in addition to an impressive working environment. There is a comprehensive package of benefits designed to support wellbeing, career development, and work-life balance. Here's an overview:

• Make a Real Difference: your work directly contributes to the community.
• Diverse Career Paths: your success will lead to further opportunities.
• Inclusive and Supportive Culture: My client values individuality, encourages learning, and supports underrepresented communities through outreach and mentoring
• Work-Life Balance: flexible working options are available (full-time, part-time, job share).
• Training & Development: full range of opportunities to grow your skills, including leadership and mentoring programmes, away days etc.
• Financial & Lifestyle Perks: Blue light card, retail discounts, cycle to work scheme, childcare vouchers, free parking, etc
  • Health & Wellbeing: Employee assistance programme, in-house occupational health and physiotherapy, supportive staff networks and wellbeing initiatives etc.

What you need to do now
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