Job Description
Job Title: Human Resources Business Partner
Grade SEO
Team/Directorate: MoJ People and Capability - HR Business Partnering (HMPPS)
Overview of the role:
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is responsible for everything that goes into running the UK’s criminal and civil justice systems, creating the foundations for a safe, fair and prosperous society. We are one of the largest government departments with over 88,000 staff based across England and Wales. We are responsible for 500 courts and tribunals, 122 prisons, the policies underpinning the system and much more.
MoJ People and Capability supports the organisation by enabling its people to be the best that they can be. We are continuously reviewing and enhancing the services we provide to ensure the delivery of high-quality services for our customers. MoJ People and Capability has over 1,400 committed and capable professionals delivering people services across the Justice family. At the heart of delivering these services are our people.
This is an exciting opportunity to provide strategic HR partnering to senior leaders in HM Prisons and Probation (HMPPS). You will be critical ensuring HMPPS meets it aims in protecting the public and reducing reoffending and gain unique experience which will enable you to progress in your career. This role sits within the HR Business Partner (HMPPS) Team which is the front facing arm of the People Function supporting a number of business units across HMPPS.
The post holder will partner either Governors within the Prison Service and/or equivalent senior leaders within the Probation Service or HQ, dependent on the complexity of the customer groups. It’s an interesting time to join the team with a huge amount of opportunity to be involved in supporting business change.
Working in partnership with senior leaders, this role will be responsible for supporting the business to deliver against people priorities. The postholder will operate as an implementer, facilitating access to central services and working alongside the business to execute people initiatives.
The post holder will be required to partner customer groups in various locations and may be called upon to support regional or national projects across areas of the business.
As a qualified (or aspiring) HR professional, the post holder will use a combination of generalist knowledge, personal skills and experience to advise and partner senior leaders on how best to align the people and business priorities.
Most roles will require line management responsibility.
This role involves business partnering a HMPPS Frontline Service, Community Accommodation Service (CAS). It is a nationally based role with the successful candidate supporting all six regions, where there are 90 Approved Premises geographically dispersed.
The successful candidate will support CAS in ensuring we protect the public and reduce reoffending through improving accommodation outcomes for people on probation and prison leavers.
The post holder will be required to bring together the people priorities for either their prison and/or probation customer group or HQ at a senior level. They will support on the underpinning activities to enable;
Solving: Provide strategic input on HR topics and help leaders develop effective people solutions
Connecting: Help the organisation draw on appropriate People Function Services and shared service support
Coaching: Coach leaders on how to manage people issues and drive the people agenda effectively
With links to the wider HR specialist functions within MoJ People and Capability, the post holder will facilitate access to the right services to deliver people initiatives.
Key Delivery Strands:
Change Management
Understanding the business and the drivers for change to be able to support the business with the people elements of change implementation.
Support the business through reorganisation, restructures and redeployment.
Resourcing & Retention
Working in partnership with the business and finance to understand the current and predicted workforce picture based on attrition and recruitment forecasting.
Support in the execution of interventions to address resourcing and retention challenges and facilitating access to the right services across MOJ People and Capability.
Provide support and advice on resourcing vacancies, ensuring compliance with Civil Service Recruitment Principles.
Management & Leadership Capability
To understand the line manager and leadership capabilities within the business unit, support the business to access centrally run learning through the learning and development team and/or helping develop the right learning interventions.
Supporting senior leaders with the development of their leadership teams.
Attendance & Performance
Help build management confidence and capability in handling of absence, performance, conduct and grievance cases through ensuring the right advice can be accessed.
Work with the business to understand the casework picture and support senior leaders to drive action to progress cases within policy timelines, supporting in the access of advice.
Work between HR and the business to ensure the policies are understood and embedded
Understand the role of the unions and support managers with union engagement related to people activity.
Employee Experience and Staff Engagement
Working with the senior leaders to analyse and identify the right people priorities through the annual Civil Service People Survey. Bringing in other workforce and people data as required to enable the business area to bring together an appropriate engagement delivery plan.
Supporting the stakeholder group to implement the right employee engagement interventions, accessing the right support from within the people group drawing on best practise and central offers.
Inclusion & Well-being
Ensure diversity and inclusion runs through all people strategies and action plan.
Facilitate access to products and services to help support networks to improve delivery.
Support the business to access the right well-being services for staff, bringing together all that is available through the People Function to provide the right well-being package or service dependent on the need.
Qualifications
You will have completed and achieved your Chartered MCIPD (or have an equivalent HR qualification) or be willing to work towards it and actively demonstrate Continuous Professional Development.
Location/Travel:
This is a national role but occasional travel will be required to Wales for team meetings.
All applicants should be aware that business partnering arrangements are subject to change and postholders will be expected to accommodate changes in partnering arrangements in line with business need to include providing cover and support for other business areas when required.
Application process:
You will be assessed against the Civil service success profiles framework.
Sift
Behaviours - Please provide examples of how you have met each one of the behaviours listed below:
Seeing the Big Picture (Lead Behaviour)
Communicating and Influencing
Managing a Quality Service
Working Together
Please submit an anonymous copy of your CV.
You will have completed and achieved your Chartered MCIPD (or have an equivalent HR qualification) or be willing to work towards it and actively demonstrate Continuous Professional Development.
Please also refer to the CS Behaviours framework for more details at this grade:
Success Profiles: Civil Service behaviours - GOV.UK
Should we receive a large number of applications, we will carry out an initial sift on the lead behaviour of Seeing the Big Picture. Successful applicants will then be invited to an interview, testing both behaviours and strengths.
Interview:
Please note that interviews will be held remotely.
During the interview, we will be assessing you on the Behaviours outlined and Strengths from the Success Profiles framework.
Behaviours:
Seeing the Big Picture (lead)
Managing a Quality Service
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together