HR Business Partner

An exciting opportunity for a HR Business Partner based in Reading

Your new role
HR Management

• Keep an up to date understanding of employment law and HR best practice and ensure that this is incorporated into business practices.
• Take support and advice from legal resources, as necessary to protect the business.
• Provide expertise in these areas of responsibility; TUPE, performance management, absence management, redundancies, right to work, disciplinaries and grievances.
• Meet regularly with Operations Director and Operations Managers, to understand potential employee relations matters across the business and offer advice to solve problems and prevent escalation.
• Liaise with site line managers and visit sites where necessary to support, advise and solve employee relations cases working towards reasonable, fair and consistent outcomes that support the business.
• Work with the Managing Director and contribute to projects that increase business performance.
• Support and develop the People team.
• Ensure all HR activities meet with and integrate with other support functions e.g. finance, compliance, sales and marketing and follow company values and brand
• Establish and maintain appropriate systems for monitoring, measuring and reporting necessary aspects of HR metrics using agreed formats and timescales to achieve business outcomes
• To monitor and provide expertise in Safeguarding practices

TUPE

• Proactively provide TUPE advice to Sales in the pre- tender, and presentation phases of acquiring new business
• Oversee TUPE process
• Work with Operations and mobilisation managers to ensure that TUPE legal obligations are met, consultations are provided and the integration of employees into the business is completed

HR Administration

• Provide support to the HR administration function ensuring that HR audits are followed through
• Compile employee statistics as needed to assist in business in employee management
• Ad hoc administration as required

Learning & Development

• Working on a one to one to coach line managers to train and develop them in handling HR matters effectively
• Contribute to the design and delivery of training courses to inform and develop people managers in all areas of employment law and HR management.
• Measure the effectiveness of such training and check training outcomes and performance improvement achieved

Recruitment

• To develop and drive a recruitment strategy as appropriate to the Education portfolio and in line with the wider recruitment strategy.
• Assist in senior level recruitment and the interview process as required.

Relationship Management

• Develop strong relationships with line managers across the business
• Work effectively with the People team to achieve business objectives.

What you need to do now
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