HR Senior Business Partner

A fantastic opportunity has become available for a Senior Business Partner for Corporate Services.

This is an interesting and fast-paced role where you’ll play a pivotal part in shaping the future of our diverse teams, including Property and Environment, Finance and Resources, Legal and Governance, IT and Customer Services. You’ll forge robust partnerships with leaders in these teams, ensuring they’re well equipped to support our community's diverse needs, and help them to foster an environment of respect, inclusion, and collaboration.

We’re looking for an ambitious person with commercial acumen and a pragmatic approach, able to drive the delivery of cost-effective solutions that do not compromise on quality or efficiency. 

You’ll be a graduate CIPD member or hold a relevant postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience. You must have up to date knowledge of employment law and best practice, and knowledge and appreciation of core employment policies and practices to enable the training and coaching of others.

If you’re looking for a role where you can blend strategic oversight with a passion for public service and drive significant impact across a range of corporate services, we would like to hear from you.

For an informal chat email your details to our Chief People Officer, Julie Clark. .uk

Interviews for this role will take place on 19 December.

• Deliver sustainable workforce interventions across a range of professional groups in a highly pressurised operational environment.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the division, leading a small of team of dedicated Human Resources (HR) professionals, providing valued and effective coaching and guidance in relation to all people challenges and opportunities.
• Working as part of an established HR team, you will collaborate with others to ensure our service offers added value and provides guidance to line managers with regards to performance management issues whilst ensuring we remain compliant with employment legislation.
• Line manage, coach and develop a flexible and resilient team of HR professionals, ensuring performance delivery is at a high-quality level.
• Contribute professional expertise to the development and implementation of the Council wide HR People Plan.

• Extensive demonstrable HR experience with in-depth knowledge and experience of case work and change management initiatives and evidenced extensive experience of handling employee relation issues.
• Extensive demonstrable knowledge of employment law.
• Demonstrable experience of working with senior managers and in a business partner model.
• Evidence of being a flexible, highly motivated self-starter, capable of working autonomously and also in a team.
• Demonstrable influencing skills and ability to positively challenge across all levels of the organisation, particularly at a senior level.
• Evidence of having excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing combined with strong interpersonal, consultative skills, with the ability to form effective working relationships with a wide range of audiences.
• Evidence of previous line management and leadership skills.

In addition to your salary, we offer a range of benefits including:

• Great holiday benefits - most roles include 28 days annual leave every year on top of public (bank) holidays, increasing to 32 days after five years. In addition, there is a holiday purchase scheme allowing staff to purchase up to 5 additional days of leave each year.
• Excellent pension – everyone who works for us can join the national Local Government Pension Scheme, widely regarded as one of the best available.
• A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity support and a childcare subsidy.
• Access to an award-winning employee benefits programme that includes a health cash plan, a low-cost bike purchase scheme as well as high street discounts and money off entertainment and travel.
• Salary sacrifice car scheme – low-cost leasing of electric and low emission vehicles.
• Blue Light Card - employees working within social care can qualify for an additional range of discounts from national retailers and local businesses.

Our roles are either designated ‘site based’ or ‘home based’. ‘Site based’ roles can include up to two days a week working from home whilst ‘home based’ roles are based at home four days a week. Of course, managers designate which category roles are in based on the needs of the service and the circumstances.

Milton Keynes City Council is a large, modern and financially stable employer with around 2,500 people working across our eight areas. Together we provide local residents and businesses with a wide range of important round-the-clock services and aim to make our city a better place to live.

We work hard because of the demands placed on us, like protecting children from harm or preventing homelessness. However, working for the city is always rewarding and everyone has the opportunity to make a real difference. 

We’re very proud of our diversity and are committed to having a workforce that reflects the community we serve. Whatever your background, you will be welcome here if you share our values of being dedicated, respectful and collaborative.

We offer great training and support and because of the size and scale of the organisation there are always new opportunities to explore when it’s time for a new role.

If you’d like to know more about how we do things and what matters to us, take a look at our short booklet What makes us Milton Keynes City Council.