HR Officer

We have 2 HR Officer vacancies and are seeking enthusiastic practitioners who are committed to making a difference in a challenging and rewarding role as part of our HR business partnering team.

In HR, we pride ourselves on our ability to work collaboratively, balancing compliance, consistency and pragmatism in our support and advice and support to managers across the Council. Our aim is to deliver a professional HR service that helps managers to support and manage their employees through planned activities such as workforce planning and workforce change and through comprehensive HR case work. This requires the ability to understand the organisation and the challenges services face, to build effective working relationships with managers and the Trade Unions, and utilising knowledge and experience to provide timely advice and support to ensure effective management of a range of operational HR activities.

As an HR Officer within HR's People Solutions Team, you will report to an HR Business Partner, and actively support a range of absence management, grievance, disciplinary and performance management cases. Providing professional advice to managers, you will ensure effective case progression within procedures and best practice. You will provide support to HR Advisers and HR Lead Officers on change projects, supporting consultation, communication and implementation of workforce and structural change of varying scales. You will represent HR at hearings, offering advice, and participate in a range of meetings, where you will prepare and deliver management information and relevant updates.

You will also be involved in other assigned projects, such as delivery of training, data collection and analysis, and research, and will participate in the HR Duty rota, providing information and advice to support our shared service centre model.

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