Human Resources Business Partner

Salary: £46,731 to £49,764per annum

Working Pattern: Full time or Part time hours considered

Location: Chichester, with smarter working options to work from home available.

Interview date: w/c 28 April 2025

What's in it for you

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring

For a full list this can be found at ourRewards and Benefits page.

The Opportunity

Working with the Senior HR Business Partners in the delivery of People Plans.

A trusted partner to stakeholders across your allocated area on:

• Comprehensive customer focused advice on HR, policies and practice,
• Leading a variety of organisational change in the HR context
• Managing a large employee relations case load
• Reporting and analysing key HR metrics to influence the business

Providing a professional, accurate and customer focused HR service under limited guidance.

To help us create a HR & OD workforce that reflects the communities we serve, and to ensure we have diverse perspectives and insights, we would particularly welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds and those with a disability.

What are we looking for?

• Ability to provide comprehensive advice, interpretation and guidance on employment matters and HR policies, practices and processes to the business, involving senior colleagues or specialist teams as appropriate.
• You will have a proven record of driving successful organisational change, including TUPE transfers.
• You will have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal credibly with our customers, senior managers and executives whilst being challenging, professional and commercially focused.
• You will have the ability to anticipate problems, plan solutions and make sound pragmatic problem-solving decisions which will have a significant impact for a service or the organisation, particularly in relation to capacity, capability, flexibility and engagement.
• You will ideally have experience of working within a unionised environment.

Please read the Job Description attached for information on the Key Skills and Qualifications and Experience we are looking for.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00922.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Julie Brown, Senior HR Business Partner at Julie.Brown@westsussex.gov.uk. For issues or queries regarding your application please contact hrrecruitment@westsussex.gov.uk.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.

Note for Recruitment Agencies: We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you!

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Supporting you in our recruitment process

We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best. Please contact Chloe Chatfield, Talent Acquisition Specialist on Chloe.Chatfield@westsussex.gov.uk to discuss how we can support you with your application and our process. This includes reasonable adjustments, or for example, if you need us consider adjustments for menopause symptoms or interview room location or layout, or organising a disability parking space. Attached is an overview of the planned recruitment process.

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