HR Business Partner

Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) is passionate about providing high quality services to our communities, residents and businesses and this means we need to employ and retain the most talented and dedicated people. Situated within the heart of the Cambridge-PeterboroughGrowth Area, Huntingdonshire is a beautiful district that boasts thriving market towns and many attractive villages, each with its own identity. We are an innovative and forward-thinking Local Authority whose residents are at the heart of our decision making.

Our post provides great opportunities to get involved in a broad remit of HR activities, including organisational design work and development, change management including TUPE, as well as the routine Employee Relations case work.

You will be confident handling Employee Relations cases, and the type of person we need will understand that employee wellbeing is important and how you manage your work to resolve cases should take a commercial as well as person centric approach.

We are looking for a confident Human Resources Business Partner, an experienced advisor who is used to managing their own challenging case load and supporting managers with cases up to and including dismissal and appeal; can lead on redundancy consultationsand will be happy to review and develop people policies. You will also be happy to contribute to a variety of different projects, both within the HR team and across the Council as a whole, but will be equally comfortable analysing data and producing reportsand guiding managers and employees through policies and procedures.

Through this role you will have the opportunity to contribute ideas and new ways of working to current practices, so curious, creative, and resourceful people will flourish in this post.

The HR teams focus on customer delivery is key and we are seeking an individual who holds the communication prowess to manage stakeholders, managers, employees, and our staff representatives, to deliver solutions.

We do not need you necessarily to have experience of working in the public sector, but you will have experience within a HR department in a busy and diverse medium-to-large organisations. What you will need is the genuine desire to want to make a differenceto our staff and customers, live our values and focus on outcomes by being an active member of the HR team.

We have achieved great things as a team and we now are looking for a HRBP who can contribute to the next phase of priorities - new ways of working, and supporting our employees and services.

In return you will be joining a supportive team and an organisation that makes a difference to the lives of residents and communities in our District. This role will be on a full-time basis, the HR team split their time between home and office.

We want to employ staff who embody our icare values (Inspiring, Collaborative, Accountable, Respectful,Enterprising) all of which support our ultimate purpose of putting our customers first.


Our benefits include:

- A highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme Pension
- An array of services, networks and training to support your health and wellbeing such as Mental Health First Aiders and access to our Employee Assistance Programme which includes financial guidance, wellbeing support and family counselling, amongst otherservices.
- Generous holiday entitlement dependent upon length of service
- Heavily discounted gym membership at our One Leisure Centres and Training Shed One Leisure
- Tailored learning and development on an individual basis including access to Bookboon which has over 1500 resources dedicated to development
- Career progression opportunities including apprenticeships of all levels
- Enhanced policies in many areas
- Flexi time & hybrid working (role permitting)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Occupational Health Programme
- Digital Parking Permit
- Long Service Award