HR Business Partner

Bristol, Darlington, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Wolverhampton

Job Summary

MHCLG is at the heart of the government's agenda for change, aimed at growing the economy and improving people's lives right across the United Kingdom. We do this by empowering local communities, rebuilding local government, delivering the homes people need, ensuring building safety, enabling social cohesion and supporting local growth. People are at the heart of everything we do in MHCLG, and naturally we take pride in our own open and collaborative culture.

Our People, Capability & Change (PC&C) directorate plays a critical role in developing our inclusive and high-performing workforce. We are an exciting, fast-paced place to work, and we operate as a single team, working flexibly across themes as required, to use our combined knowledge and expertise in the most effective and efficient way. We expect our people to be curious and engage positively with other Government departments and external stakeholders across the public and private sectors to understand the wider context of our work and to identify current and emergent best practice. We promote closer working across Government to meet the challenges of the future and we invest in our continued professional development.

We are looking for a HR Business Partner to join the HRBP team in MHCLG’s People, Capability and Change Directorate (PC&C). The HRBP team is a supportive and high-performing team with a variety of experiences where diversity of thought is welcome and encouraged.

HR Business Partners Are Trusted Advisers For Senior Leaders At Director Level To Enable The Delivery Of Their Objectives Through Their People Priorities, Which Can Include

• Organisational change.
• Planning the current and future size and shape of the workforce against workplans.
• Building capability and supporting employees to perform at their best.
• Advising on creating a diverse and inclusive organisation.
• Promoting staff wellbeing and supporting initiatives to promote wellbeing in the organisation.
• Providing strategic HR advice to business strategy and plans, diagnosing and advising on people implications and risks.
  
  

HR Business Partners also work with colleagues across PC&C to support the delivery of people priorities by providing business insight into people strategy and initiatives, and also helping to adapt the work programme for the HR function as the Department’s context, needs and priorities shift. HR Business Partners also work closely with other corporate teams, especially Finance.

Job Description

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Building and managing relationships and partnerships - influencing, consulting, negotiating, and securing the confidence of senior stakeholders.
• Providing challenge and influence at senior management team level to deliver objectives.
• Using data and evidence to make decisions and influence - interpreting complex data at an operational and strategic level to create and present evidence based insight. Using data to highlight risks to customers and to drive excellence in HR systems and practice.
• Capability building - effectively coaching and mentoring, both on an individual and team level, to drive high performance. Enhancing the capability of others, taking into consideration the needs of different groups, to raise standards and drive delivery.
• Leading transformation and change - leading delivery of people focused transformational change management programmes and managing cultural change.
• Applying employment law or employee relations principles.
  
  

Responsibilities Will Include But Are Not Limited To

• Building and managing relationships and partnerships - influencing, consulting, negotiating, and securing the confidence of senior stakeholders.
• Providing challenge and influence at senior management team level to deliver objectives.
• Using data and evidence to make decisions and influence - interpreting complex data at an operational and strategic level to create and present evidence based insight. Using data to highlight risks to customers and to drive excellence in HR systems and practice.
• Capability building - effectively coaching and mentoring, both on an individual and team level, to drive high performance. Enhancing the capability of others, taking into consideration the needs of different groups, to raise standards and drive delivery.
• Leading transformation and change - leading delivery of people focused transformational change management programmes and managing cultural change.
• Applying employment law or employee relations principles.
  
  

Person specification

• Essential: CIPD Level 5 with previous HRBP or equivalent HR experience
• Experienced in building strong, trust-based partnerships with a range of senior stakeholders and the ability to influence, constructively challenge and provide appropriate feedback.
• Evidenced problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Experience of analysing and using data to understand implement and measure the success of people based initiatives.
• Experience working with ambiguity, using curiosity and initiative to develop ways of getting the best outcomes that meet business need.
• Able to maintain personal effectiveness in the face of pressure, set-backs of when dealing with challenging situations.
  
  

Alongside your salary of £58,092, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes £16,829 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

At MHCLG we offer many benefits that range from tailored career pathways and flexible working to MyLifestyle Staff Benefits Scheme, Childcare Vouchers, and Cycle to Work Schemes. For more information, please click here.

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

Application and Selection

The application process will be split into 2 stages, testing the following Success Profiles:

Behaviours , Experience , Strengths

Please ensure your CV does not contain any personally identifiable information.

Note: We do not consider direct CV applications. All applications must be submitted via the provided application link.

Important: Your CV and Cover Letter must be merged into a single document before uploading.

Stage 1: Sift (CV & Cover Letter)

Experience: Your covering letter should be no more than 1 page: Please note that your supporting statement must include a response to the following question:

Can you describe how you have operated to influence, challenge and resolve complex HR issues with senior leaders? Please outline your approach and how you ensured the desired outcome was achieved?

You may include additional relevant info