HR Business Partner

We are recruiting for a
HR Business Partner
in our
HR Business Partnering Team.
This role may involve
nationwide travel
, and we'd be happy to discuss the expected frequency and typical locations with you.
Due to travel and training we will only progress applications for those located in the West and East Midlands areas.
We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures. We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us.

We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience, which helps ensure we provide a service which promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families we work with.

Let us tell you a bit more about the role…
As a
HR Business Partner
, you will be part of our nationally dispersed
HR Business Partnering team
within the wider HR and OD team. You will work closely with HR colleagues and the Senior HR Management team to delivery operational and strategic HR outcomes, as a genuine Business Partner to senior managers and their extended management teams.

This is a great place to work as the HR service is critical to Cafcass achieving the best possible outcomes for children, working as it does in close partnership with operational staff and managers to enable them to deliver outstanding frontline and corporate support services.

In terms of what you can expect to be doing in this role, this is likely to include:

• Providing timely, accurate and robust advice and guidance on full range of routine and complex HR issues, including employee relations casework.
• Play a leading role in restructuring and change programme, including project planning, producing business cases and impact assessments and producing HR case plans.
• Provide direct, expert guidance to decision-makers throughout all stages of formal procedures.
• Provide support and expertise to senior HR colleagues to develop, progress and implement people management solutions.
• Forging close and influential working relationships with internal stakeholders.

… And What We're Looking For.
As a
HR Business Partner
you will have:

• Experience and knowledge of HR issues, legislation, policies and procedures.
• Ability to operate in a high tempo environment, within a complex organisation.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills, to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Capability to produce high quality written work.
• Commitment to contribute to the continuous improvement of frontline and corporate support services.
• A strong background in supporting line managers with people management and development issues; and
• A proactive approach to resolving employee relations casework, drawing on your strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

You can find out more about the above, before you apply, we also recommend you read the job description.

Next steps / timelines
If and when you are ready to apply, our application process is straightforward and quick to complete. You don't need to complete your application in a single visit, you can start it and come back and amend your responses / update your CV, just make sure you come back before the closing date to submit.

Below we have given you an indication of a timetable we are hoping to work towards, although dates are subject to change.

Closing Date
23rd November

Telephone Interview
W/C 24th November and W/C 1st December

Work-related Assessment Via Teams.
W/C 8th December

Final Interview And Work-based Assessment
W/C 15th December (to be held in person - location tbc)

We understand you may benefit from finding out more to help you decide to apply. There is a lot of information available at
Cafcass Careers
but if there is something else you need to find out more about, you can either contact from our Resourcing team if your query is to do with the recruitment process or is HR-related, or
Kathryn Alston
if your questions relate more to the role, providing your contact information and best times / methods to get hold of you.

Whilst we will always try and respond a.s.a.p. we wouldn't want you to miss the closing date before we are able to. If this is the case, we recommend you apply and as part of your application you can ask questions and this may allow us to contact you and provide you with the required information that will help you decide if you still wish to be considered.

Finally, in anticipation of your application being successful, you might want to read about the
offer and pre-employment checks
process. As part of your application you can highlight any concerns or questions about the pre-employment checks and we encourage all applicants to do so, safe in the knowledge such information will not be shared with individuals involved in the selection process.

We look forward to hearing from you.