Senior HR Business Partner

2 weeks ago

United Kingdom Happy Days Nurseries & Pre-Schools Full time

Happy Days is one of the largest providers of nursery and preschool care in the South/South West. We’re committed to and passionate about delivering quality childcare and early years learning. We underpin our unique approach to nursery and pre-school care by constant reference to the best international research, backed up by over 30 years in the sector. We have 24 nurseries and counting and aim to add 8 sites per annum for the foreseeable future. Above everything, we care.We care about each other, we care about developing our people and we care about providing the highest quality childcare service to our customers.

Are passionate about delivering outstanding service.
As the Senior HR Business Partner you will initially have a strong bias towards operational HR, with a medium-term opportunity to potentially develop into a Head of People role and taking a more strategic view. You will also support day to day line management of a HR Business Partner and HR Advisor.
Reporting to the Operations Director, you will deliver sector best practice and be motivated to use your knowledge, insight and skill to help us motivate and retain an engaged workforce.

Operational HR
Oversee and support operational HR Delivery including day to day employee queries and ER support. Manage own ER caseload and hold responsibility for more complex cases supporting the HR team as a point of escalation and guidance.
Collaborate with the Senior Management team to review existing people practices, proposing and implementing improvements that enhance people, nursery and company performance.
Advise, coach and support management to effectively manage performance, development and wellbeing in line with, policy and best practice. Develop a HR reporting framework and dashboard and seek to implement tools and systems which drive efficiency across the business and create capacity for others to add value.
Create opportunities and ways to up-skill and develop line managers to improve capability and optimise team, nursery and company performance.
Execute the performance and pay review process, ensuring a fair and consistent process for all and ways to improve this to optimise participation and engagement
Support new nursery openings from a people perspective, supporting a smooth integration into the business
Demonstrable HR Business partnering experience in a multisite environment
Commercial acumen with a passion for continuous improvement and experience in supporting business-wide people initiatives at a senior level
Strong generalist HR content knowledge across employee relations, reward, employee engagement, talent / succession and performance management – knows what good looks like and latest trends
Substantial experience of complex employee relations cases with the ability to identify business risks before providing recommendations​
Experience of coaching and upskilling people managers with varying levels of experience and capability
Confident and driven with the credibility and commercial awareness to advise and influence at a senior level. Solution oriented with innovative problem solving that enables pace and shows good business acumen ​
Able to analyse data from multiple points translating this into compelling business data to support sound business decisions.
Superb attention to detail, right first time approach with the ability to ensure seamless HR delivery
Excellent organisational and project management skills. Good report writing skills and confidence presenting across all levels.
Sound understanding of HR technology and how this can be utilised to improve performance, process and engagement ​
Our teams, whether in our nurseries or our support centre SHINE, they ensure we are delivering outstanding childcare to every child in our settings every day, this helps to make Happy Days a great place to work. By ensuring we are always recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues, who are representative of the communities within which our nurseries sits gives us the best opportunity to continue to deliver outstanding childcare.

“Happy Days Nurseries are committed to the safety and wellbeing of the children in our care, as such the successful post holder will be required to undergo a robust vetting process, including an enhanced DBS Check and Reference History Checks”

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