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HR Business Partner

A leading organisation in Bath is seeking to appoint a HR Business Partner to assist in the provision of an efficient and effective HR service to managers and Staff. There will be a particular emphasis on employee relations, organisational development, performance management, absence and policy development.

Key Responsibilities:

Involvement and responsibility for all operational employee relations issues including disciplinary cases, redundancies and restructures for the business area.

Working with managers, initiate action for absenteeism and sickness cases. You will also liaise with occupational health as required and manage long term sickness and ensure accurate payments for sickness issues.

You will brief managers on updated and new company HR policies and procedures. Assisting the HR Manager updating and maintaing the staff handbook, contract of employment, HR policies and procedures will be within your remit.

Provision of support and guidance to managers and staff with regards to company-wide HR policies and procedures and compliance with internal and external regulations.

Coordinate and monitor the performance management review process for the business area. You will then identify key skills and staff development needs and pass through to training.

Develop the management talent in the business area.

In conjunction with the line managers, support the succession planning and retention for key staff and roles.

Support DSE and maternity risk assessments and training employees to carry out these assessments. You will then liaise with the company medical officer and occupational health where appropriate.

Conduct exit interviews and highlight retention issues.

To commission recruitment, training and compensation and benefit support from the key providers and act as a liaison with these functions to minimise interfaces.

Assist HR manager in employee communication programmes and attend and organise staff association meetings.

Have a comprehensive understanding of own business area and be able to proactively suggest improvements from an employee perspective.

Responsibility for coordination of the annual salary review.

To work on various reports and projects as directed by the Group HR Manager and to provide cover for other HR posts as and when required.
To identify change within the HR Department and to drive this forward as appropriate

Monitor the key HR performance indicators for their business area

Key Skills

You will be an effective communicator with a keen attention to detail.

The ability to work to deadlines is paramount.

You will be able to offer a degree of flexibility with regards to the business, and be an astute problem solver with the ability to identify solutions and communicate recommendations to managers.

Proven policy review experience - the ability to identify improvements to policies and communicate these recommendations.

Criteria

You will be at least part CIPD qualified, possessing at least 3 years experience within HR.

Coming from a generalist background with prior experience in handling discipline and grievance issues, together with exposure to appraisals, training and compensation and benefits will be a distinct advantage.

IT skills required include proficiency with MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint, together with experience of using a HR database.

A good working knowledge of current Personnel practices, policies and employment law.