HR Business Partner- 12 month FTC

Job Description

HR Business Partner- 12 month FTCSalary: £43,320Location: Peterborough / HybridThe VacancyWe have a fantastic opportunity to join CKH as a HR Business Partner on a 12-month fixed term contract. The incumbent will join a friendly, well-established, and highly capable HR and Payroll team who are looking forward to welcoming their newest team member!The successful incumbent will need to be proficient in the end to end employment lifecycle, with specific expertise in recruitment, employee relations and learning and development. This is a true generalist HR role where literally no two days are the sameso you may be involved in managing a complex ER case and then leading a recruitment campaign the next: or simultaneously!You will need to have excellent relationship management skills to effectively partner with our leaders across the business to understand the needs of the customer and translate requirements into pragmatic HR solutions. CKH is a diverse organisation so beingable to adapt your style depending on your customer group is key as this role interacts with a range of different employees, as well as both professional and operational business functions.We are looking for someone who has a strong ethos of providing quality HR services and solutions to the organisation, who is prepared to challenge the status quo in a way that engages customers and stakeholders and takes professional pride in bringing theirknowledge, experience, and expertise to support and develop the HR service delivery to achieve the 23/24 service plan.If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you to provide us with an opportunity to tell you what you will get in return for all this!Note: the successful incumbent will need to live ideally within a 1 hours commute of Peterborough to be able to visit CKH premises to fulfil the duties of this role.Key Responsibilities Please find below the key responsibilities for the role (but not limited to):

• Translate business requirements into effective operational HR practice, delivering people solutions aligned to business objectives across multiple stakeholders.

• Directly responsible for developing succession plans across the business, ensuring appropriate initiatives are developed and implemented to support both the talent development of existing employees and to ensure business continuity.
• Directly responsible for partnering with internal customer groups to deliver effective recruitment practices for Senior Management or high-profile roles to ensure an excellent candidate experience, resulting in the appointment of high calibre candidateswhilst maintaining cost effective and efficient methods of sourcing - with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
• To build line management capability in modern people management practices including hiring talent, performance management and employee relations.
• To ensure complex employee relations issues are proactively case managed by complying with due process, identifying risks in the context of employment law, and understanding mitigations to inform pragmatic proposed solutions for oversight by the HR ServicesManager, seeking legal advice as required.
• Directly responsible for collating and developing bespoke departmental training needs analysis (TNA) with customer groups to continuously improve organisational effectiveness and inform the organisational talent management strategy and succession plans,in line with agreed budget provisions, reporting on expenditure and material changes on a quarterly basis.

• Responsible for developing current and future policy requirements to support strategic aims, legal compliance, and best practice working collaboratively with CKHs recognised trade unions and Employee Forum.
• Interpret and analyse monthly HR management data to provide appropriate insight, support and intervention solutions. Produce adhoc reports and executive summaries for senior stakeholders to inform and influence people related strategies.
• To project manage strategic HR projects as directed by the Executive Director of OE & HR.

Essential Criteria

• Level 7 CIPD Qualified (or equivalent) and able to demonstrate HR professional expertise including sound understanding of UK employment law
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of external and internal customer excellence; able to build positive working relationships with customers, based on professional expertise and mutual respect.
• Experience of policy and process improvement, as a way of demonstrating continuous improvement
• End to end project management experience
• Ability to solve complex HR related problems

• Ability and credibility to present effectively to senior managers
• Ability to operate as an internal consultant in order to understand strategic goals of the business and translate that into HR actions over the short, medium and long-term
• Ability to manage people-related projects to agreed timelines and quality standards
• A self-starter; able to use initiative
• Ability to coach line managers in the context of HR policy and best practice

• Proficient in verbal and written English
• Highly skilled in prioritising and organising own workload
• Demonstrable interpersonal and communication skills
• Numerically proficient; able to compile and analyse data to understand trends and/or provide insight in order to provide solutions and recommendations to people-related business issues.

Additional Information

• Full UK driving license with access to a suitably insured vehicle (successful incumbent will need to be able to visit CKH sites as and when necessary to fulfil duties of the role)