People Partner

**People Partner (Central)**
- **£36,846 - £41,105 pa (pro rata for part time hours)**:

- **30 - 37 Hours per week**:

- **Permanent**:

- **Huntingdon**:

- **Hybrid Working** (We offer a flexible, agile, hybrid working pattern where you can work from home, as well as from Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service and other locations around Cambridgeshire, to meet the team and organisations’ needs)

**The Role**:
Are you a HR professional looking for something different? This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our fun, forward-thinking Fire and Rescue Service.

If you like every day being different and want to work with our dynamic front-line colleagues, support teams and the community then this role would be great for you

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual to join our People Team. You will be joining our enthusiastic, hardworking, small, and supportive People Partner team reporting to the People Partner Team Manager. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated and passionate towards HR/people practice as well as commitment and a positive approach to work.

You will be working alongside two other People Partners, and you will each support a designated geographical area of the County (North, Central & South Cambridgeshire). The available vacancy will cover the central of Cambridgeshire. This geographical area will consist of designated stations, groups and support functions and the successful applicant will partner with leaders to help deliver a people focussed, professional HR service by coaching, advising, and supporting managers at all levels in all aspects of HR practice.
- Central of Cambridgeshire (including Huntingdon, St Neots, St Ives)
- Coaching and influencing managers from a people perspective, developing their people management and leadership skills.
- Being visible and proactive in building effective and credible working relationships with managers, employees, and representative bodies
- Working in collaboration with colleagues from the wider People Group and other stakeholders as appropriate

**About You**:
You will have a clear passion for everything HR and bring that passion with you into CFRS. The Service is a fantastic, fun and unique organisation to be part of and your drive, experience and knowledge will help us on our journey.

In addition, we will look to you to possess the following:

- Must have a CIPD qualification at Level 5 or actively working towards, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Previous experience of working in a HR partnering role
- A natural ability to be able to coach, advise and support managers at all levels
- Experience of working with internal stakeholders to develop creative and proactive HR solutions
- The ability to challenge individuals in a professional manner to improve leadership competence and confidence
- Experience of autonomously supporting complex ER cases
- Strong commitment to continuing professional development, demonstrated by evidence of ongoing personal learning and development.
- Ability to liaise professionally with people of all levels and across all sections of the organisation and develop constructive and credible working relationships with all employee groups, managers, and representative bodies.

If you do not fully meet the requirements but believe that you can clearly demonstrate in other ways the range of valuable skills, experience and knowledge recognised as relevant and important to this role, we would welcome hearing from you.

**About us**:
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) is one of the best Fire and Rescue Services in the country. In our last inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) we were noted as good, specifically around promoting the right values and culture, getting the right people with the right skills, ensuring fairness, promoting diversity, managing performance, and developing leaders.

Our vision is for a safe community where there are no preventable deaths or injuries in fires or other emergencies. To achieve this, we put people at the centre of everything we do. Without our welcoming, friendly, and supportive environment we would not be the Service we are today.

**Why work for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS)?**

We promote the right values and an inclusive culture by:

- ensuring fairness, promoting diversity and developing colleagues to achieve their potential
- being Disability Confident employer
- providing health and well-being support
- offering flexible, agile hybrid working
- having Inclusion ambassadors, a network and working groups for protected characteristics

Our offer:

- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Health Cash Plan
- A competitive pension scheme
- Access to Blue Light Discount at 100s of stores & events
- Access to Health Shield Perks Discounts
- Family friendly policies - including flexible working
- Great Learning & Development Opportunities
- 28 days annual le