People Business Partner

Salary: £390 – £480 per day

BBS Recruitment is currently recruiting for an experienced People Business Partner in a temp position for our client based in Chelmsford Essex.

The successful candidate should be a proactive and hardworking individual with prior experience within a role.

People Business Partner Job Role:

As a People Business Partner you will develop critical relationships across the different areas of the Council, driving our people and workforce strategy initiatives to ensure we are continually improving performance. Your expertise, credibility and gravitas will be able to influence even the most senior colleagues, helping us to drive our initiatives forward and build a world-class workforce. You’ll work collaboratively, providing expert advice and coaching. As senior leader within the ODP team, you’ll actively challenge the status quo and will encourage ideas and the use of innovative, digital solutions to improve on performance. You’ll monitor, assess and evaluate workforce performance and its impact on the organisation, and play a key role in the Council’s business planning cycle.

Requirements for People Business Partner:

You’ll be educated to degree level or equivalent and hold an MCIPD qualification, or ideally, FCIPD qualification. As a senior HR professional, with significant experience under your belt, you’re resilient, curious, adaptable and creative, and lead with ethical and professional integrity. You’ll have your own strategies for building your own in-depth knowledge of each area of the business, its language, goals, processes and strategy. Your strong communication skills will give you the ability to forge lasting relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders. You’ll have experience of coaching and leading others and will be able to provide advice and support across the different areas of the Council. Driving continuous improvement is an important part of what you do, and you’ll actively seek out new ideas and feedback from customers to learn and grow.

This position will initially, in line with current government guidance be based from home, with an expectation of being home based for the foreseeable future. However, if / when government guidelines change the role may then revert to being office based, whilst retaining some flexible working options.