Job Description

1.Provide a comprehensive HR consultancy and advisory service to meet the needs of the organisation, adhering to an HR culture which is results oriented, customer focused and forward looking:

• Provide direct support and advice to managers and staff to developed and agreed performance standards.
• Schedule regular meetings with the assigned department to promote, implement and advise on all HR&OD issues.
• Deliver, as directed, the priority activities as outlined in the HR&OD work programme including taking the lead for activities as allocated.
• Advise and assist on restructuring proposals and their implementation and advise on managing resultant staff changes/redundancies including trade union and individual consultation.
• Work with managers and business partners to develop bespoke employee relations and recruitment resourcing approaches on a range of issues, involving other colleagues in the section to deliver a seamless service, to meet customer needs and improve management capability.
• Contribute to the delivery of the HR components of departmental service plans reflecting these in workforce organisational health indicators.
• Contribute to the implementation of departmental workforce plans including co-ordinating recruitment resourcing activity and department specific recruitment campaigns.
• Work closely with line managers, on disciplinary, grievance capability, absence management and other employee relations issues ensuring efficient and effective case management. Taking responsibility as allocated, for supporting and assisting managers in complex ER investigations.
• When necessary, liaise with internal and external legal bodies to prepare the Council’s defence in tribunal proceedings.
• Advise and assist managers and staff on responses to employee litigation on behalf of the Council.
• Facilitate the effective application and consistency of the Council’s people management policies and procedures.
• Monitor and evaluate performance to ensure the efficient and effective use of resources.
• Proactively manage as directed, allocated HR&OD projects encompassing management of all associated resources including project team members and budgets, etc to ensure successful completion and delivery.

2. Provide consultancy services in a professional, proactive and commercially focused manner in the day-to-day delivery of HR&OD Services:

• Support the Business Partners to identify key workforce issues and potential resource implications including, possible outcomes and any associated risks.
• Adopt the Consultancy Framework approach for the HR&OD team in the delivery of services contributing to the assurance of service performance standards as set and monitored.
• Ensure appropriate record keeping for audit purposes in line with best practice, organisational and data protection requirements.
• Work in partnership with colleagues to proactively maintain the content of the HR intranet.
• Support the delivery of a job evaluation service.
• As a member of the HR&OD team, actively challenge existing/established ways of working both within and outside of the department and work towards establishing a more dynamic approach to these working systems.
• Actively evaluate all projects/work with a view identifying improvements and contributing to workforce organisational health data analysis.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Provide advice to managers, staff, in relation to employment law, reward, compensation, grading issues and HR policies, practices and procedures.
• Keep abreast with professional developments and legislative requirements and their applications that affect assigned departments’ services.
• Assist in the monitoring and evaluation of the performance and impact of workforce organisational health information in collaboration with the pay and performance team.