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Bristol, Leeds, London, Manchester
About The Job
Job summary
The HR Business Partners sit within the Strategy, People and Culture (SPC) Division within GLD. There are five principal teams within the Division: Human Resources, Change, Communications, Business Management and Strategy & Governance.
The Strategy, People & Culture Division advises, supports and enables GLD lawyers to help the government to govern well within the rule of law. Our purpose is to support GLD’s people strategies and enable the department to be the best employer for our people.
The Human Resources function provides a full range of services to GLD which HR business partnering is an essential part. You will be working together with HR colleagues in the Workforce Strategy team as well as other HR teams; Learning and Development, Resourcing, Employee Services, Policy, Pay and Employee Relations. As an Assistant HRBP you will also work across GLD to legal directorates to support HR Business Partnering to:
- Attract, develop, and retain a talented and motivated workforce, nurture talent and build career paths
- Develop inspiring, confident, and empowering leaders and managers
- Support employees’ health and wellbeing
- Promote a diverse and inclusive culture.
As an HR team we do this through:
- expertise and professionalism
- providing business focused advice on workforce and employee issues
- an effective HR Service striving to get the basics right and offering first class responsive and consistent customer service
- Working in partnership with our customers
- Developing and delivering a range of resourcing policies and processes
- Establishing cost effective and flexible reward structures
- Effective systems, policies, and processes
This means you will have the opportunity to develop your capability across a broad range of HR work and contribute to a highly engaged team that are passionate about supporting each other to succeed.
Job Description
The role offers the opportunity for exposure across many Civil Service government departments as you will be supporting a range of our client based legal teams.
Working in partnership with the HR Business Partner you will be providing HR related advice, leading on complex casework and aiming to build capability in management.
Working in close partnership with HR colleagues ensuring policies and procedures such as flexible working, capability management or performance management are delivered in a people-focused way and aligned with business needs.
Assisting HR Business Partners in delivering key strategic HR projects that are instrumental to improving HR services to customers.
Supporting culture change, supporting teams to engage with and through their people, for example, managing workloads and supporting staff in response to client demands or gathering recruitment information to feed into workforce planning and resourcing.
Engaging with colleagues across GLD and the wider Civil Service, to encourage partnership and collaboration in sharing best practice.
Supporting managers to build a strong culture of inclusivity.
Gathering and analysing HR data and using data-driven insights to support HR projects such as workforce planning and in support of employee life-cycle activity.
Assisting in the delivery of HR focussed L&D relating to performance management, sickness absence, dispute resolution and management skills.
The successful candidate will join the HRBP in the Employment with Economic Recovery and UK Governance Directorate.
Person specification
Below are details of the Success Profile that make up this role.
You will be expected to provide evidence to show how you meet the criteria at application & interview stage.
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing (lead behaviour)
- Working Together
- Managing a quality service
- Delivering at pace
Experience
- HR experience
- Sound knowledge of UK Employment law
- HR Casework experience
Technical
CIPD qualification [or willingness to work towards gaining qualification within 2 years of employment]
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £39,728, Government Legal Department contributes £10,726 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Up to 30 days annual leave and 8 days pubic holidays.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
During the application stage you will be assessed against the Behaviours, Experience and Technical criteria listed above.
To apply for this post, you will need to complete.
- A CV (maximum 2 pages) setting out you career history, qualifications, work history and key responsibilities (this will be assessed).
- A statement of suitability (maximum 500 words) outlining how you meet the Experience and Technical selection criteria outlined in the person specification.
- Please also provide examples (maximum 250 words per example) of how you have demonstrated the Behaviours listed below:
- Communicating and Influencing (lead behaviour)
- Working Together
- Managing a quality service
- Delivering at pace
Please state the preferred location of work in your application.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) . See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality Requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window) .
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Seekha Lahiri
- Email : [email protected]
Recruitment team
- Email : [email protected]
