About the job

Job summary

We are recruiting for HR Business Partners in our Operational HR Team. 

There is likely to be some level of travel with this role and we’d be happy to discuss this with you to give you an idea of frequency and likely locations. You will ideally be based within the Midlands.

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.

Job description

As a HR Business Partner, you will be part of our nationally dispersed HR Operations 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.
• 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.

Person specification

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.

Benefits

• Learning and development culture 
• An environment with flexible working as standard 
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity 
• Generous Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contribution of 19.4%
• Generous holiday entitlement with option to bring continuous service from an approved employer for enhanced provision
• Health Cash plan with basic membership fee paid by Cafcass, with option to add family members
• Overall, a highly competitive total reward package with range of financial and non-financial benefits 

Things you need to know

Selection process details

 

Prior to being invited for a panel interview, if you meet our essential criteria we would invite you to participate in a work based assessment to further help us determine your suitability.

What we’ve shared with you here is just a fraction of what we think you may like to know and might help you decide to apply. We would also like you to be able to access the job description for this role and also find out about the timelines we are working towards, all of which you can find by clicking through to our vacancy page.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.