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Head of HR Business Partnering - Organisational Design & Development

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Judicial Office HR

Location:

This position is being advertised in Leeds (Wellington place) or London (Royal Courts of Justice/Rolls building). Should the successful post holder be based in Leeds, they will be expected to travel to London to meet the needs of the Senior Judiciary and the Judicial Office.

The post is eligible for hybrid working (current requirement is at least 40% of working hours each week to be spent in the office, moving towards a minimum 60% working in the office, in line with all government departments once discussions with trade unions are complete, and is subject to change where business needs require it). The post holder oversees a nationally dispersed team, requiring travel to those locations when necessary.

Overview of the role:

The Judicial Office

The Judicial Office (JO) reports to, and is accountable, to the Lady Chief Justice and was established in 2006 to provide support to her and to the wider judiciary following the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. In addition, we support, and are accountable to, the Senior President of Tribunals, whose responsibilities extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The JO is an interesting and unique place to work. Everything we do is in support of upholding the independence and impartiality of the judiciary. We work closely with His Majesties Courts & Tribunal Service (HMCTS), the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and others across Government as well as with the legal professions.

Overview of Judicial HR

Judicial Office Human Resources (JOHR) places Judicial Office Holders (JOH) at the centre of our service, ensuring we are visible, proactive as well as responsive, and that we collaborate with colleagues across the Judicial Office, and beyond to ensure we provide judicial office holders with excellent HR support and professional expertise.

JOHR supports the senior judiciary, leadership judges, and works in partnership with HMCTS and MoJ to ensure the Lady Chief Justice and the Senior President of Tribunals have a properly resourced, visible, and accessible HR service based on the needs of the judiciary.

With a passion for people/operational management and a desire to build an HR generalist foundation for a future career, the post holder will work within the Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) Organisational Design and Development (OD&D) function leading a team of HR professionals being first line support and initial contact for the Judiciary, alongside building and delivering a comprehensive OD&D service to the Judiciary and Judicial Office.

Whilst we are part of the wider Civil Service HR community, we are not a typical HR team in that everything we do needs to meet the, often complex, needs of around 25,000 members of the judiciary who are office holders and not employees or Civil Servants. This provides us with a unique and interesting set of HR challenges. It also provides us with unique opportunities to work with the judiciary at all levels and gives us ample opportunity to broaden our HR skills sets, use our HR and business insights to be curious and creative about doing things differently within an environment of continuous learning.

Summary:

The Head of HRBP and OD&D is a key leadership role within the Judicial Office HR Team. We have significantly grown our HR field support to the judiciary and grown our team’s capability to support our clients in the delivery of justice. We often work in the space of ambiguity particularly due to the complex space we operate within

You will be joining a high performing team working to ensure that we deliver an ambitious HR agenda ensuring our clients are at the heart of our service. We are developing new HR services alongside delivering business as usual HR to a complex workforce who are not Civil Servants or employees. You will act as the single point of contact for the Heads of Division, Master of the Rolls, Senior President of Tribunals, and the Senior Presiding Judge for any HR advice, redirecting to subject matter experts when required.

You will provide transparent and clear leadership to a nationally disbursed team, who have now embedded their service into their regions. You will forge new ways of working and operating for the Judicial Office and Judiciary through the lens of OD&D and systems thinking. Working strategically to understand the needs of both clients, ensuring the organisation and Judiciary are best placed for comprehensive systemic changes. Working with delivery partners across the Judicial Office, HMCTS, and the MoJ ensuring designs are fully planned with interdependences considered, and cultural changes considered and added into strategic plans.

Consisting of HR Hubs in Leeds and London with satellite field HR staff located in; Birmingham, Manchester, Wales and Exeter our Senior HR Business Partners, HR Business Partners, HR Advisors and HR Support Officers provide an expert service to the judiciary. Alongside offering strategic HR support and oversight to the Judiciary we are also the first port of call for all HR enquiries and absence reporting. A high profile and operationally impactful role on other organisations. 

You will also play a critical role in the corporate leadership of the Judicial HR Team working collaboratively with the Head of Centres of Expertise and the Head of HR Operations to deliver a professional HR service to the judiciary.

Responsibilities,

Activities & Duties:

Setting the strategic direction for the HRBP and OD&D team, supporting them to be forward looking and proactive in delivering a professional field HR service and OD&D offer that ensures judicial office holders (c 23,000) are at the heart of the service by: 

• Maintaining a business partner and organisational development and design model that can support the delivery of business priorities in a complex environment, adapting to live issues to ensure the team model and offer remains fit for business need.

• Lead the evolution of the field HR operating model to meet the bespoke and diverse needs of the Judiciary.

• Working with senior management teams within HMCTS at a strategic level to define the responsibilities, accountabilities, and hand offs between Judicial HR, HMCTS and the Judicial Office Operations team as part of HMCTS reform programme.

• Supporting the HRBP and OD&D team to grow in confidence and ability in driving forward people and organisational interventions, where priorities may be undefined, changing, or ambiguous.

• Ensuring the business understands the HR model and the role of HRBPs and OD&D.

Lead and shape the Organisational Design and Development offer by:

• Continuing to build on our offer of OD&D capability and consultancy.

• Leading on the design and delivery of high impact OD&D interventions as well as supporting the OD&D practitioners to grow in confidence in their practice.

• building OD&D capability in the wider HR team and where appropriate within the wider JO.

• Inspire, develop, and manage a high performing team that meets the business objectives.

• Actively participating in the corporate leadership of Judicial HR, ensuring that judicial HR are connected to the wider civil Service HR profession community.

• Building relationships with internal/external practitioners and networks, scanning for emerging trends, innovations, best practice and understanding the external HR sector. Providing expert advice to align with Judicial HR policy and strategy.

• Working flexibly, collaboratively and at pace across the Judiciary ensuring effective planning, execution of structural and cultural changes and the effective deployment of HR resource/expertise

• Demonstrates effective diversity and inclusive team management within their team and the wider organisation.

• As this is a national team some travel will be required.

Behaviours & Strengths (for Recruitment/Success Profiles):

Behaviours
Seeing the big picture
Leadership
Communicating and Influencing

Changing and Improving

Essential Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• Ability to lead high-performing teams, who are engaged and motivated to give off their best, whether direct or dispersed.

• Demonstrable generalist HR experience, including previous experience of being a Senior HR Business Partner.

• Experience of leading and delivering HR and change in a complex and ambiguous context.

• Proven track record of delivering systemic change using OD&D methodology, with longer term benefits.

• An ability to bring flexibility, curiosity, and diverse perspectives into your work to drive innovation and achieve successful business outcomes.

• Ability to navigate a complex environment, with a solution focused approach.

• Excellent communication skills and an ability to use data, insight, and evidence to influence and inform senior leaders on a wide range of complex people management and people solutions.

Desirable Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• Knowledge of the judiciary and the justice system

• Operational experience working within HMCTS.

• Proven experience working within HR and delivering OD&D interventions

Technical Skills/

Qualifications:

• Level 5 qualified / CIPD qualified or willing to work towards. This role can be linked to the HR Apprenticeship (Level 5) and as a route into CIPD qualification.
  
  

• OD&D Practitioner’s Certificate or willingness to work towards

Security clearance required:

Security clearance will include a requirement of CTC and DBS

Additional Information:

The successful post holder will have a base location in Leeds (Wellington place) or London (Royal Courts of Justice/Rolls building), with travel to London as required should the post holder’s base location be in Leeds. As the team is nationally dispersed travel would be expected to support staff within those regions, as determined as appropriate by the post holder.

This position is eligible for hybrid working (current minimum requirement for time spent at base location is 60%, which is subject to business requirements). There will be a need to attend meetings with the judiciary (including in person at sites), with meetings often taking place before or after court (before 9.30am and after 4.30pm) so flexibility is required in the role.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess the Behaviours, Experience and Strengths elements.

Application stage

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a Statement of Suitability in no more than 500 words. Using the job advert as a guide you will be required to provide an overview of transferable skills and / or evidence that would fulfil the role requirements. You will also be required to provide examples of the Civil Service Behaviours listed above, and a CV, setting out your career history.

If large volumes of applications are received the sift will focus on the Leadership Behaviour.

Interview stage 

It is anticipated that interviews will take place in person at the RCJ - London on Thursday 31^st July.

Interviews will assess Civil Service Behaviours.

You will also be asked to prepare and present a 5-minute presentation. The subject of this will be sent to you prior to interview.

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