Senior HR Business Partner

2 weeks ago


Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom Browne Jacobson Full time

Job Overview

Browne Jacobson is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join our HR Services (Education) team. As a key member of the team, you will play a critical role in providing strategic HR advice and support to our clients in the education sector.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide expert HR advice and guidance to clients on a range of HR-related matters, including employment law, HR best practice, and HR systems.
  • Develop and implement effective HR policies and procedures to support the business objectives of our clients.
  • Manage and bring to a successful conclusion complex and contentious HR casework, including discipline, grievance, capability, and harassment cases.
  • Lead and manage a team of HR professionals to deliver high-quality HR services to our clients.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior management, HR teams, and trade unions.
  • Develop and implement business development strategies to grow our HR Services practice and deliver new business opportunities.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest HR trends, best practices, and legislative changes to ensure our clients receive the best possible advice and support.

Requirements

  • Chartered CIPD (MCIPD) qualified or equivalent.
  • Up-to-date knowledge and understanding of human resources best practice and a thorough understanding of the practical application of employment law.
  • Knowledge and understanding of key human resources processes, including payroll, pensions, HR information systems, DBS, and recruitment.
  • Sound experience of managing and bringing to a successful conclusion complex and contentious human resources casework, including discipline, grievance, capability, and harassment cases.
  • Sound experience of managing and bringing to a successful conclusion HR projects.
  • Knowledge and experience of working with and negotiating with trade unions.
  • Evidence of continual professional development as a HR practitioner, ideally from within the education sector.
  • Knowledge and understanding of key education sector issues.
  • Ability to work collaboratively to review, develop, and implement effective human resources policies and procedures.
  • Ability to analyse and interpret complex information and prepare and deliver briefings, articles, papers, and/or presentations.
  • Effective communication, influencing, and persuasion skills, together with evidence of success in building and forming working relationships, and working flexibly across professional and operational boundaries.
  • Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate probity and integrity in the provision of advice.
  • Ability to lead, manage, and develop a team.
  • Ability to manage conflicting priorities and a demanding workload.
  • Demonstrable experience of working as a trusted advisor to key organisational stakeholders.
  • Ability to generate and follow up business development leads, seeing them through to pitch presentations and ultimately deliver new business for the organisation.
  • Ability to produce innovative ideas, approaches, or insights in order to continually develop the HR Services practice, be that through internal system development or through new products and services that add value to our clients.
  • Ability to take on board new projects and instructions with confident self-direction, researching and gathering information in order to support decision making, personal practice, and exceptional client service.
  • Ability to set clear direction to a team, delegating work appropriately and fairly.
  • As a role model, sets appropriate standards of behaviour, upholding Browne Jacobson's core values and ethics, promoting and defending equal opportunities, and embracing diversity and inclusion.


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