Lead HR Consultant

2 weeks ago


Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom Brighton & Hove City Council Full time

**Lead HR Consultant**: Posted on 9 May 2023 Apply
- Directorate BHCC: Governance, People & Resources
- Salary £39493 - £42503
- Contract Permanent

**Location**:
Hove Town Hall, Hove

**Job Summary**:
- Job reference- orbis/TP/25175/33019-
- Positions available- 1-
- Working hours- 37-
- Closing date- 4 June 2023-
- Job category- Human Resources-
- Organisation- Brighton & Hove City Council**Job introduction**:
**Lead HR Consultant (HR Advisory Team)**

We’re appointing a Lead HR Consultant in the Schools HR Advisory Team that will report to an HR Manager. This is an essential role in a traded service where the provision of a high quality professional service is critical.

Lead HR Consultants in this team:

- Provide managers with consistent, pragmatic and effective advice on the management and resolution of people issues covering a wide range of HR areas, mitigating risk to the organisation whilst optimising resources to deliver highly effective and creative solutions.
- Work in partnership with the client group at a senior level to establish an excellent understanding of their service and the challenges they face to proactively identify opportunities for operational and strategic intervention capitalising on external best practice;
- Manage complex HR&OD casework and projects and provide a high quality, professional and solution-based service to clients.
- Are responsible for leading the development and implementation of HR policy, engaging and consulting with key stakeholders including trade unions and customers, keeping abreast of changes in the education sector, leading communications with schools and contributing to the wider leadership and development of the HR service to schools.

One of our key areas of focus as a department is to support the directorates to proactively understand, engage with and respond effectively to the city’s diverse communities and changing demographic.

**Interview date**: 16th June

For an informal discussion, please contact Kate Vallance - HR Manager on 01273 293468.

**About the role**:
**What you can expect**:
Brighton & Hove City Council serves a vibrant city by the sea - a place that has ambitions to be a fairer city with a more sustainable future.

As a service, HROD’s role is central to decision making with an established place on the Executive Leadership Team. Using a business partnering approach with centres of expertise, the service provided is fully aligned to the needs of the organisation. We take our responsibilities as an employer seriously and that makes working in HROD in Brighton & Hove exciting, at times challenging and always interesting.

We are a friendly, talented, hard-working team who have experienced rapid change over the past two years in the ways we deliver our services.

**HR Advisory Services**

The remit of the HR Advisory Team will continue to focus on the provision of a high quality professional advisory service to the organisation, and for managing case work to embed a culture of early informal resolution, fairness, tackling discrimination and ensuring that complex employment matters are dealt with effectively and sensitively. The Schools HR Advisory Team also support the management of change and provide professional expertise in leading HR support for reorganisations. Lead HR Consultant roles, reporting to HR Managers, work across schools and the council. The Schools Lead HR Consultants’ focus will be on complex employee relations casework and supporting the HR Manager in developing the team and improving performance, quality and consistency of casework and our service to schools.

**Additional information**:
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

**Company information**:
**Encouraging a diverse workforce**

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).


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