HR Business Partner
Description
- Job grade: Senior Executive Officer
- Contract type: Permanent, Fixed term, Secondment
- Length of employment: Until March 2028
- Type of role: Human Resources
- Working pattern: Flexible working, Full-time
- Number of jobs available: 2
Location
This post can be based at our sites in either Ryton-on-Dunsmore (CV8 3EN), Durham (DL15 8DS), Harrogate (HG1 1EP) or London (E14 4PU). Hybrid working opportunities can also be discussed prior to you taking up your post. This role is also available as a designated homeworking role.
About the job
Job summary
This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.
This advert is one permanent role and one fixed term role.
About us
Our mission is: Leadership, Standards, Performance. This guides our work with individuals, forces, and policing partners towards our vision. We exist to support police officers, police staff and volunteers to deliver the best service to the public. Only through high quality leadership, consistent standards and continual performance improvement can everyone in policing reach their full potential. Our mission guides our work with individual, forces and partners towards our vision.
Although we are a relatively small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.
We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive through our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, and status as a disability confident leader.
For further information visit our ‘Work for us’ page.
Additional Information
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
Due to our status as Public Servants, we are not eligible to participate in the Civil Service transfer process. Therefore, while successful candidates can transfer into the organisation on their existing terms and conditions, any move back to the Civil Service may mean that continuity of service is not automatically recognised by the receiving department, and new starter or modernised terms and conditions may apply, subject to the receiving department's policies and arrangements. However, employees who move directly to a Civil Service department without a break in service may retain continuity of service for redundancy and pension purposes.
Any previous service with local government or other external Modification Order bodies will not be carried forward or count when calculating redundancy entitlement.
The College embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we comply with the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and apply the minimum selection criteria at sift stage of the recruitment process. Where necessary, we may increase the minimum selection criteria to support the effective management of the recruitment process, while ensuring our approach remains fair, transparent and consistent with our Disability Confident commitments.
Job description
Join us at a pivotal moment in the College of Policing's journey. As an HR Business Partner, you will work closely with senior leaders to shape and deliver people strategies that support organisational transformation, workforce capability and cultural change as we move towards the exciting opportunities presented by the National Policing System (NPS). We are seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to play a key role in delivering people-focused change. Partnering with senior stakeholders, you will provide strategic HR leadership, helping to develop organisational capability, foster high performance and ensure our people are equipped to meet the challenges and opportunities ahead. This is a unique opportunity to influence strategic decision-making, drive organisational performance and help build the future workforce that will support policing across England and Wales
Please join us for Q&A session on 4pm on Tuesday 10th of November via teams to find out more about the College of Policing's HR team and the role.
Person specification
Some of your responsibilities will include:
- As HR Business Partner for the aligned business areas take responsibility for the HR engagement and support to the Leadership Teams to enable decision making of the delivery of their objectives through their people priorities. This includes providing HR insight to business strategy and plans, advising on change management approaches, culture change and diagnosing and advising on people implications, opportunities and risks.
- An understanding of the business you partner, and how to communicate critical people issues with stakeholders and an ability to drive organisation change and transformation initiatives with evidence of the impact on the business through the analysis of appropriate metrics and insights.
- An ability to build trust-based relationships with a wide range of demanding and diverse senior stakeholders.
To be successful in this role you’ll:
- Degree or equivalent Level 6 qualification or extensive equivalent experience within a HR environment, or CIPD Level 5 and relevant experience with Associate CIPD membership.
- Experience of workforce planning, TUPE, change management and organisation design deploying robust problem-solving solutions to support the organisation to be agile and flexible in their ways of working and implementing transformation and change. Proven experience of leading, developing and working with teams, including working with internal and external people in positions of influence and/or high-level roles.
- Associate member of CIPD membership-Chartered member is desirable
Please see the attached job description which contains full details of the role.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Strong ability to manage challenging situations, including effectively challenging and influencing more senior colleagues and stakeholders, to ensure the right outcome is achieved.
- Understanding of the business you partner, how to communicate critical issues with stakeholders, an ability to drive organisation change and transformation initiatives with evidence of impact on the business through analysis of metrics and insights.
- Experience of workforce planning, TUPE, change management, and organisation design deploying robust problem-solving solutions to support the organisation to be agile and flexible in their ways of working and implementing transformation and change.
Benefits
College staff have Public Servant status. As a Public Servant, you are eligible to join the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
The College is a great place to work. We're passionate about our people and offer a wide range of benefits, including (but not limited to):
- Defined benefit pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 28.97%*
- Up to 31.5 days holiday (this is in addition to 8 public holidays and 1 privilege day)*
- Role-specific learning and development, with continued professional development to help you progress your career
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave*
- Flexi-time (for certain grades)
- MyLifestyle platform which offers a wide range of shopping discounts with major retailers and includes access to discounted gym memberships, National Dental Plan, AXA Healthcare and the Cycle to Work scheme
- Free employee support line
- Interest free season ticket loans*
- Rewards and recognition scheme
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
* Please note benefits marked with an asterisk are available to College employees only. If you join us on a secondment, you will retain the terms and conditions of your substantive employer and will be eligible for all other benefits listed.
We also have a number of thriving staff networks that provide the opportunity for advice, support and to drive change. A place to get your voice heard, share experiences and challenge our working practices to ensure equality of opportunity for all.
For more information about our benefits and staff networks, visit What we offer as an employer , College of Policing
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Selection process details
Please note that in order to work for the College of Policing you must have the Right to Work in the UK with indefinite leave to remain. Any other type of visa cannot be accepted. In addition, you will also be required to provide an address history in the UK for the preceding 3 years. Applications that do not meet these requirements will be rejected at sift stage and will not be progressed to interview.
Vacancy reference: 7362, 7363
Anticipated interview dates: W/C 30th November
Interview Location: Remote via Teams
This role is available until March 2028 as a secondment opportunity to:
- colleagues employed directly by the College or the Civil Service. Please note you will be required to obtain the written support of your line manager prior to submitting your application.
- serving police staff at the equivalent rank of Sgt/Insp who have their chief officer's approval. Chief Officer’s approval must be of NPCC rank, i.e., CC, ACC or DCC. Approval for a secondment must accompany an application.
Police Staff may qualify for a non-pensionable Central Service Allowance (CSA).
Please ensure you return the attached secondment approval form via email to recruitment@college.police.uk quoting the internal reference number 7363. Please note, without this your application will not progress beyond sift, even if your application is successful.
For further information on applying for a secondment please visit the “Secondments into the College” page.
Internal College applicants who are at risk of redundancy or in need of redeployment and pass the recruitment process, will be given priority over other applicants.
Before completing your application you will be invited to complete the Civil Service Judgement Test. If you pass the test you will then be invited to complete the rest of your application
Sifting
An initial sift based on the lead technical skill ‘Understanding of the business you partner, how to communicate critical issues with stakeholders, an ability to drive organisation change and transformation initiatives with evidence of impact on the business through analysis of metrics and insights.' may be held if a large number of applications are received. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
The initial sift will be assessed against a minimum benchmark score of 4. Where necessary, we may increase the minimum selection criteria to support the effective management of the recruitment process. In such circumstances, only candidates achieving the increased benchmark score at the initial sift stage will progress to a full sift assessment.
Our vetting
If you are successful at interview, you will be required to undertake pre-employment security checks. You will be sent a security questionnaire which must be accessed within 24 hours.
Please note, these checks can take up to 10 weeks. You will only be offered a start date after the checks have been completed. If the outcome of these checks is not satisfactory, your recommendation for employment will be withdrawn.
Contact details and further information
If you would like to discuss the role in more detail please contact Sue Abbott, Pay and Reward Manager/Senior HRBP, sue.abbott@college.police.uk 07920235023.
The College is committed to supporting the Greening Government Commitment and reducing our environmental impact. Through our Environmental Management Plan, we promote sustainable ways of working and provide electric vehicle charging points to support greener travel choices. We also encourage employees to become Environment Champions and support our One Step Greener approach, helping to create a better future for everyone.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Sue Abbott
- Email : sue.abbott@college.police.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : recruitment@college.police.uk
Attachments
| T4JD - HR Business Partner (1) (1) Opens in new window (docx, 83kB) |
| Secondment approval form (3) Opens in new window (docx, 81kB) |
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