Assistant People & Organisational Development Business Partner - Burgess Hill

Job Description

Assistant People & Organisational Development Business Partner

Location: Burgess Hill/Hybrid Working          

Salary: Up to £33,475 per annum        

Hours: 35hrs per week           

Why join us?

Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

MAIN PURPOSE:        

 

To help to shape and deliver a commercially focused, compliant and appropriate people plan to support services and departments to achieve organisational success. Aligned to the organisational strategy and objectives.

Supporting the People &OD Business Partner to implement the organisation’s people strategy and policy, leading change and driving the adoption of people policies and processes across your services and departments.

In conjunction with the People and OD Business Partner, you will drive performance and continuous improvement through insights and develop people management capability across your areas to support the success of the organisation’s strategy.

 

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To support and drive all people related change activity across your business areas.
• To support and drive and implement people strategy at a local level; monitor compliance and influence and engage teams to make improvements where necessary.
• To support and drive performance and capability through insights and people initiatives.
• To review and analysis people metrics data available form the people systems, and support managers to understand and effectively use this information to drive improvements within their department/service
• To provide support and coaching to Managers for resource planning, key recruitment, talent planning (performance, talent, succession, learning and development)
• In conjunction with the Employee Relations Team, coach, facilitate and encourage an effective employee relations culture, where issues are dealt with promptly and effectively to reduce the need for formal interventions.
• To provide feedback, insights and learning back from operational teams to feed into the wider organisational people strategy.
• To champion the importance of engagement, EDI & wellbeing at a local level, and support management teams to develop and delivery robust actions plans to enhance the colleague experience
• To support improvement of policy and processes within your area of practice, and supporting the People & OD Business Partner to ensure they are fit for purpose, legally compliant, understood, ‘trained in’ and embedded to improve employee experience and performance across the organisation
• To support the wider strategic people objectives and the People and OD Business Partner to deliver project work to a high standard and in a timely way that may span the whole organisation.

 

ABOUT YOU:

• Educated to degree/comparable NVQ level or equivalent.
• Experience in a HR Generalist role.
• Up to date knowledge of employment legislation and HR best practice and ability to practically implement.
• Experience in implementing change with demonstrable positive results.
• Demonstrable experience of providing pro-active, pragmatic, and timely people solutions / people plan to support improved operational performance at dept level.
• Experience of advising on a wide range of HR matters including the full range of ER issues.
• Excellent IT skills including the use of Word, Excel, Outlook and HR systems.
• Able to coach line managers to use their judgement and make the right decisions for employees and the people we support.
• Able to analyse information and comfortable to communicate in a compelling way, while simplifying complexity to suit all audiences.
• Ability to meet the Travelling requirements of the post.

REWARDS:

You can look forward to excellent benefits, including handy discounts on many brands and services.

• A competitive rate of up to £33,475 per annum

• 35 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) (pro rata)

• Buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave

• Health Cash Plan

• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

• Excellent training and support

• Group life assurance

• Eye voucher scheme

• Free parking

• Company Pension

• Long service and Staff Awards

We also put a big focus on employee wellbeing and support. It matters to us that you feel at your best. Career development is a priority. We will ensure you get all the training and learning opportunities you need to achieve your goals.

To join our friendly team, click the Apply Now button.

**Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. **

*All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks*

Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.

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