HR Improvement Officer Children and Young People

4 months ago

BurtonOnTrent, United Kingdom Wakefield Council Full time

Wakefield Council is the largest employer in the district, employing over 8,000 people in a variety of different occupations and across varying services. We have a clear vision for the future and our values: caring, ambitious, integrity and respect, really do shape the way we work.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join our HR Business Improvement Team based within our Wakefield One building in central Wakefield. This is an excellent opportunity to use and develop your existing HR skills to make a difference.

With your ‘can do’ approach, as our HR Improvement Officer you’ll work collaboratively with management and HR colleagues to deliver professional HR advice and guidance to our Children and Young People Directorate on a range of HR matters. including recruitment, attendance management, redeployment, and organisational change.

Your drive for continuous improvement, combined with your ability to manipulate and analyse data, and build strong and effective professional relationships and networks, will help you to identiy and make recommendations to help shape a broad range of developmental HR projects and service improvement initiatives to really make a difference.

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- a generalist HR background.
- the ability to influence and be confident in the delivery of HR advice to support the service.
- experience of working within well-established policies and procedures to reach appropriate solutions.
- excellent communication skills, with the ability to converse with a range of internal and external stakeholders effectively.
- the ability to be open to change and new ways of working and be able to identify and take forward areas for development.
- experience of using HR systems and be confident in your ability to use Microsoft packages.

**Why Wakefield Council?**
- We offer a flexible full-time working pattern of 37 hours per week
- 29 days holidays plus 8 Bank Holidays.
- Support and access to high-quality training programmes to progress your career to the next level.
- We are committed to supporting the well-being of our staff. We recognise that resilient teams need good work-life balance as well as supportive leadership.
- Access to a range of employee support products.
- Discounted and subsidised public transport (Arriva Bus Annual Travel Ticket, Northern Trains Limited (NTL), MetroCard).
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Great range of benefits including discounted membership to our excellent leisure facilities with free 12 weeks exercise program, discounts for a range of retail, entertainment, health and leisure providers, cycle to work scheme and many more.

**Salary**: £31,099.00-£33,820.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Free flu jabs
- Free or subsidised travel
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site gym
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- HR: 1 year (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Burton Street WF12EB

Reference ID: 237487

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