HR/OD Business Partner

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade J. Scale 40 - £51,356 to Scale 43 - £54,495 with a professional bar at Scale 41 - £52,413**

Hours Per Week: 36 hours

Base Location: Tameside One

Assessment Date: To be arranged

The Role

HR/OD Business Partner Shape Strategy, Enable Change, Make a Lasting Impact

We’re looking for an accomplished and forwardthinking HR/OD professional to join our People and Workforce Development team as a strategic HR/OD Business Partner supporting Children’s and Education Services.

This is a highimpact role where you’ll work in close partnership with senior leaders to shape, influence and deliver workforce strategies that enable excellent services for our communities.

As a trusted advisor, you’ll bring insight, challenge and supporthelping leaders navigate complexity, drive transformation and build a highperforming, inclusive and resilient workforce.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, professional HR/OD team, working alongside fellow Business Partners and specialist colleagues. You’ll also lead and develop Assistant HR/OD Business Partners, contributing to a strong, supportive and highquality service offer.

What you’ll be doing

• Partnering with senior leaders to cocreate and deliver strategic people plans aligned to service and organisational priorities
• Leading and shaping complex organisational change, including transformation programmes, restructures and TUPE
• Acting as a credible and influential advisor, providing balanced challenge and solutionfocused support
• Enabling leaders to build engaged, highperforming teams through coaching, guidance and insight
• Contributing to the ongoing development of a modern, progressive HR/OD function
• Supporting the organisation to develop a flexible, inclusive and futureready workforce

Why join us?

This is an opportunity to:

• Work at strategic level with real influence and visibility
• Play a key role in shaping services that make a difference to people’s lives
• Be part of a collaborative and valuesdriven HR/OD community
• Contribute to a progressive people agenda focused on transformation and improvement

About You

You’re an experienced HR/OD professional who brings credibility, insight and a collaborative approach to everything you do.

You’ll:

• Be confident operating at strategic level, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders
• Bring a strong track record of leading complex change and transformation
• Demonstrate sound judgement, resilience and the ability to navigate ambiguity
• Be skilled in influencing, coaching and enabling others to succeed
• Apply a commercial and pragmatic mindset to delivering people solutions
• Have uptodate knowledge of employment legislation and best practice
• Hold a CIPD qualification (or equivalent experience)

Most importantly, you’ll share our commitment to continuous improvement, collaboration and making a meaningful difference.

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.

** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above AND a management qualification, AND

2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND

3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND

4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Suzan Gregory on 0161 342 2648 or suzan.gregory@tameside.gov.uk