HR Consultant

5 days ago


Surrey, United Kingdom Medport Global Full time

**Hybrid Working**

Whilst your official work base will be Woodhatch Place, the Council works in an agile way; you decide where you need to work at any given time, including from home. We trust our people to be accountable, focus on productivity, outcomes and collaboration, and will support you to work where you are most effective, whether remotely or from the range of SCC offices.

**About us Schools**

HR is a centre of excellence within the People and Change function; as a traded service we are in an exciting period of growth, and we are looking for an experienced HR Consultant to join us. Surrey County Council offers professional HR services to schools across the local authority, supporting the Council’s objectives for improved educational outcomes for Surrey children, ensuring that no one is left behind. We are a small, friendly and well-supported, commercially-minded team, and we come together regularly to collaborate on projects, share experiences and learn from each other, as well as to relax and celebrate achievements. We also enjoy collaborating with colleagues across Surrey’s extensive education support network.

**About the role**

You’ll be prepared to work in schools across the County, and potentially beyond, providing strategic employee relations casework support to school leaders and governors, and supporting with formal hearings, investigations and training. You’ll have strong research and writing abilities and enjoy improving and drafting resources, policies, correspondence, briefings, and providing clear and accurate written HR advice for customers and colleagues. You’ll be proactive in your approach to managing customer relationships and complex and sensitive employment issues, and knowledgeable in the full range of employment topics including safeguarding, staffing restructures and TUPE projects. You’ll be outcomes-focused, ensuring that cases are resolved swiftly and comply with legislation, policies and best practice. Your strong coaching style will give school leaders confidence in your support and the options available to them, and you’ll have good personal resilience and decision-making ability to help you deal with tricky situations.

If you have expertise in the unique HR and employment law frameworks associated with the education sector, we want to hear from you

**Job Type**: Temporary contract

**Salary**: £22.40 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Flexitime

Schedule:

- Flexitime

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Surrey: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Please tell us about some of the main areas of employee relations which are specific to schools, specifically relating to terms and conditions, ER policies, casework, HR projects and change programmes, with examples.
- Please describe how you have built rapport with school leadership teams and/or business managers, including Trade Unions.
- Please explain your understanding of the statutory relationship between the local authority and maintained schools, and your understanding of the changing educational landscape.
- Please tell us about a time, with examples and outcomes, of where you were able to coach and mentor colleagues.
- Please tell us how you would take the initiative when consulting on plans and projects, using a proactive and autonomous approach.
- Please tell us what you understand this role to be and what you would bring to it.

**Experience**:

- Human resources: 2 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- CIPD (preferred)


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