HR Policy and Projects Officer

7 days ago

Bolton, United Kingdom Bolton Council Full time

Grade G, scp23 £32,076 to scp27 £35,745 per annum - Pay award pending
Permanent
Please note that you will require a recognised HR qualification/relevant degree i.e. CIPD L5 or above.


Ask us about flexible working options to fit with your work/life balance - #HappytoTalkFlexible

The Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Bolton Council’s HR Team. This post is responsible for the research and development of HR policies and practices, including working with Trade Unions and our workforce to ensure our work positively impacts on the working lives of our staff.

The successful candidate will research, develop and take responsibility for the continuous improvement of HR policies, ensuring they contribute to our People Plan. You will learn and absorb relevant changes to employment law and terms & conditions, identifying implications and solutions, whilst researching and implementing new workforce initiatives. You will undertake benchmarking, research, and consultations, generating creative solutions to identified issues. You will also manage a range of initiatives including staff benefits, wellbeing and & EDI and job evaluation, as well as positively engaging with Trade Unions.

This is a fast-paced area of work, where teamwork and collaboration are key, and ambition and learning is encouraged The successful candidate will be ambitious for the service, bringing new ideas and initiatives, thinking innovatively outside our current ways of working.

This is a permanent, full time (37 hours) role. Following an office-based induction period, hybrid working is available to staff in line with Council policy, with the expectation that the majority of working hours are completed in Bolton Town Hall.

About You

Are you creative and love a plan? Are you passionate about delivering an excellent service to the workforce?

You will be CIPD Level 5 qualified or hold a relevant degree, and have knowledge of employment legislation, policies and practices in HR.

Ideally you will have experience in policy creation and Trade Union/workforce engagement, with strong communication skills both written and verbal. You must be computer literate, including knowledge of Microsoft packages.

Using your HR knowledge and research skills, you’ll ensure that our policies reflect best practice and our values, are legally compliant and inform our equality and inclusion agenda.

The ideal person will have experience of working independently, in a team and with other internal/external stakeholders and have the ability to multi-task whilst delivering on key workforce projects, policies and staff benefits.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.

Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and explain how you meet the points on the person specification.

Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk




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