HR Business Partner

Drive

the people strategy forward...

...to enable

our employees to do their best work

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The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

HR teams enable business leaders to improve organisational performance and efficiency through workforce planning, leadership development, transformational change, workforce capability and upskilling, employee engagement and talent development to create a place where people thrive, feel proud and belong. 

Learn more about the work of the HR profession in the Home Office.  

About the role

Joining the Home Office as an HR Business Partner will provide you with the opportunity to directly influence senior leaders responsible for implementing ministerial priorities. For an ambitious HR professional, the scope, benefits and development opportunities offered by the role are immense. 

Our HR Business Partners work alongside senior managers in different areas of the Home Office to provide an independent view and strategic HR input on a range of critical business issues, often characterised by ambiguity and often at pace. No two days are the same, and resilience and the ability to flex between transactional and strategic activities is key. 

As HR Business Partners, you will be central to enabling the organisation to achieve its transformation outcomes. This role is varied: you may be involved with critical incidents, required to provide important data for ministerial briefings and advise on high profile casework or policy that attracts media scrutiny.  

This is an opportunity to get involved with driving significant change programmes and strategic initiatives that will fundamentally change how the Home Office operates. As an HR Business Partner, you will be at the heart of driving, developing and delivering change.  

Hybrid working

Hybrid working enables employees to work partly in their workplace(s) and partly at home. A hybrid working pattern may be available, where business needs allow.

These roles have a degree of flexibility attached due to a combination of flexible working from home and a requirement to be on-site. Travel across regions to multiple ports/offices/locations is expected, and a flexible office base may be possible at a location within a geographical region.

Benefits

We offer competitive starting salaries, along with a Civil Service Pension with employer contribution rates of at least 26.6%, as well as a range of other brilliant benefits including flexible working and 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.

Find out more about some of the other benefits we offer.

More about the roles

• Locations

  Croydon, Folkestone, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Sheffield

• Salary

  National: £57,000 min, £62,700 max
  London: £61,000 min, £67,100 max

• Responsibilities

  Key responsibilities include: 

  • Working with senior business leaders to lead the design and implementation of directorate Business and People Strategies and Plans. 
  • Working across HR Expert Teams and Shared Service providers to implement HR basics as well as HR policy and programmes to deliver taxpayer VFM and a high standard of HR service delivery. 
  • Supporting change initiatives and refining organisation culture, values and environment to improve organisational performance, effectiveness and flexibility. 
  • Working alongside senior managers to build capability in line with strategic goals to maximise capability and skills across a diverse workforce. 
  • Acting as the people lead in the development of organisational design, structures and resource plans. 
  • Advising on options for appropriate talent and resourcing initiatives. 
  • Supporting senior leaders with Employee Relations and interpreting legal advice. 
  • Driving the commissioning, development and delivery of HR solutions to meet business needs, improve user/customer experience and to ensure that diversity issues are fully integrated.
  • Working collaboratively and with agility to thrive within a business which relies on constant innovation and change. 
  • Navigating the complex with curiosity to support our diverse business and promote a unified Civil Service HR Profession. 

  Please note: an employee may be required to carry out other duties within the scope of the grade and within the limits of their skill, competence and training. 

• Essential criteria

  1. Experience of HR business partnering or partnering leaders in operational and strategic HR is vital. 
  2. Ability to credibly partner and influence a range of collaborators across complex networks, on a range of people priorities and plans. 
  3. Ability to use an evidence-led approach to shape, create and implement new people approaches across a diverse workforce. 
  4. Leading self, teams and collaborators through ambiguity and organisational change. 
  5. Ability to resiliently manage a range of conflicting priorities, often at pace, understanding that roles can frequently be pressurised and priorities varied. 
  6. Experience of analysing and interpreting complex data to formulate and engage collaborators on sound people recommendations, decision-making, plans and activities. 

• Qualifications

  Minimum of CIPD qualified (Level 5)

• Behaviours

  We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Changing and Improving
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Leadership
  • Making Effective Decisions

• Selection Process

  We use Success Profiles and will assess your behaviours and experience. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.  

  1. CV 

  As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV detailing your job history, qualifications and skills. Your CV will not be scored. 

  2. Statement of suitability 

  You will be asked to complete a statement of suitability (no more than 1250 words)  to demonstrate your skills and experience for the role and how you meet the essential criteria as detailed in the job description. It is important to use headings for each essential criterion in order to help us accurately assess your application. Poorly written and evidenced applications may result in not passing the sift stage. 

  The sift will be held on the statement of suitability.  

  3. Interview 

  If you are successful at sift stage you will be invited to an interview, which will be comprised of behaviour-based questions. At interview, candidates will be asked to deliver a short presentation. Details will be provided prior to interview.