People Business Partner

3 months ago


London, United Kingdom Independent Office for Police Conduct Full time

Job Introduction
The IOPC is undertaking a programme of transformation, enabled by new IT systems and in support of an ambitious five-year strategy. As a People Business Partner you will be confident supporting change and will ensure that the IOPC maintains and enhances employee satisfaction throughout this period and in the longer term.

The role focuses on making the IOPC a great place to work by ensuring that all colleagues in the IOPC have access to effective modern people policies and timely advice and support. The People Business Partner service is focused on pre-empting issues and early problem solving by finding flexible person-centred solutions to problems and issues.

People Business Partners support managers to focus on effective business change. This includes using data insights, implementing corporate changes and working closely with managers on complex people management issues.

People Business Partners are the key point of contact between the People directorate and local functional or regional management teams enabling the wider business to input into draft policies, access services and influence the development of corporate strategy.

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- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Changing and Improving

In addition, we will also assess your experience.

If you are shortlisted for interview, we will provide further details at that point around what will be assessed at interview.

Main Responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description for additional detail and responsibilities.

**Corporate and Managerial**
- Lead, manage, motivate and coach a small team and identify opportunities for improvement
- Contribute to the development and implementation of the IOPC People Strategy as a member of the People Directorate Management Team
- Maintain excellent relationships across the People directorate and collaborate on projects and initiatives, leading where necessary.
- Show strategic awareness and maintain an up to date knowledge of IOPC operational challenges
- Identify and challenge risk and escalate as needed

**Strategic Business Partner**
- Understand the immediate issues and concerns in relevant customer departments and contribute to improvement plans
- Contribute to discussions about the core work of the customer department, working closely with senior managers to contribute to problem solving, providing challenge and appropriate support and guidance.
- Assist in the annual planning and budgeting process

**Policy**
- Take responsibility for the development of a policy area, acting as a source of expert guidance for others in the team
- Ensure that case law and good practice guidance relating to the specialist area is disseminated to colleagues
- Assisting with the embedding of necessary people management and wellbeing processes and principles within customer departments
- Attend JNC and Staff Council as needed to discuss policy amendments

**Outreach / Staff Engagement**
- Ensure that HelpPoints happen regularly at every location for which responsible; personally contribute to the HelpPoint rota and ensure that learning is captured and followed up for the benefit of the whole team
- Work with colleagues and employee representatives to ensure that individual employee issues and concerns are solved speedily

**Employee Relations**
- Ensure that employee relations cases are run in an effective, pragmatic and timely manner
- Deploy mediation and problem-solving skills to resolve disputes within teams
- Personally manage complex cases and those involving senior staff
- Act as Investigating Officer for complex casework as necessary
- Support ER Appeals
- Manage small scale change processes
- Contribute to the management of large scale change processes, including insourcing outsourcing and TUPE

**Recruitment**
- Plan workforce requirements with customer departments
- Provide advice and guidance on job design and evaluation
- Ensure that recruitment casework is managed effectively and time to hire targets are achieved.

**Essential Requirements**

**Technical**

CIPD level 7, or actively working towards.

**Experience**
- Significant experience in a senior HR role in a dynamic organisation
- Experience of complex employee relations, resourcing, change management and performance management
- Proven track record of proving credible, expert advice and services to managers in a complex environment.
- Proven track record of delivering significant and measurable business benefits
- Designing, delivering and implementing tailored solutions, business processes, policies and procedures in accordance to organisational and People strategic direction

**Skills and Abilities**
- Up to date and demonstrable comprehensive knowledge of HR practice, concepts and themes including employment law and employee relations issues
- Experience of managing a small HR team
- Up to date knowledge of employment legislation and best


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