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HR Operations Manager – Human Resources

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Posting date: 05 September 2024
Salary: £35.20 to £35.20 per hour
Additional salary information: per hour PAYE
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 04 October 2024
Location: Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1HZ
Company: Triumph Consultants Ltd
Job type: Temporary
Job reference: Cheshire E 5254195

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What's involved with this role:

Interim HR Operations Manager – Human Resources

Job Ref: Cheshire E 5254195

Pay Rate: £35.20 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 37 hours normal working hours

Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months

City: Sandbach, Cheshire

The purpose of the role is to lead and manage the HR Operations team, focusing on the delivery of the Workforce Strategy to ensure that the Council and Schools have the right people with the right capabilities, skills and attitudes in the right place at the right time.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the HR Operations team to provide professional expertise and direction for the Council and Schools through effective strategic business partnering, influencing and challenge to support delivery of the Council’s key priorities and services.
Lead the delivery of operational HR support to those schools that buy back the HR Schools’ Consultancy service.
Provide strategic HR operational advice to the Council and school leadership teams in order to meet their strategic priorities.
Provide guidance and support on organisational change, including service re-design, restructuring and senior recruitment.
Lead on the development of service workforce plans and the delivery of operational action plans that address identified issues and shortfalls in performance and capacity.
Continually develop partnership and joint working arrangements, including conducting baseline assessments and audits, to improve service delivery and realise financial savings.
Lead on the consultation and negotiation with Trade Unions in relation to all HR Operations matters to ensure effective and harmonious employee relations.
Provide professional expertise and oversight into escalated HR cases and highly complex employee relation matters which arise, so that the Council meets its legal obligations, employees are managed in a fair way and employee relations are maintained.
Develop and commission income generation plans, identifying plans for new income streams across the HR service to ensure resources are maximised and savings realised.
Manage the deployment of budgets for HR Operations to ensure that opportunities for further funding are maximised and co-ordinated to make effective use of resources and secure best value.
Act as lead representative for the Transactional Service Centre and ensure effective service delivery against agreed service level agreement.



Qualifications:

Educated to degree level or equivalent.
Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD)



Skills & Experience:

Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Significant post qualification experience of working in human resources, demonstrating in depth knowledge of HR policies, trade unions relations and applying employment law.
Significant experience of working as a senior HR professional including working at a strategic and corporate level with Directors, Senior Staff, Members, external agencies etc.
Extensive post qualification experience with significant experience of business partnering and the development of corporate policies at a senior management level.
Significant experience of managing a team of specialist professional staff.
Extensive HR knowledge and experience, including business partnering, complex employee relations issues.
Demonstrable ability to think innovatively and provide practical solutions to meet complex HR needs and priorities.
Seasoned HR practitioner with sound professional judgement required for working in a complex environment.
Experience of delivering training and development concepts and principles.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Adobe Pro).


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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

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Job Ref: Cheshire E 5254195


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