HR & OD Business Partner
| Posting date: | 21 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 August 2025 |
| Location: | Salford, M275DA |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75718512 |
Summary
Lead the Way in People and Culture Transformation
About Us
At Salford City Council, we’re proud to be a people centred, values-led organisation with a bold vision: a fairer, greener, and healthier Salford. We’re on an ambitious journey of transformation, and we’re looking for two HR & OD Business Partners to join our welcoming HR team who share our passion for people, innovation, and impact.
This is more than the usual HR role. As a strategic partner, you’ll work closely with senior leaders to shape and deliver workforce strategies that drive service excellence, build organisational capability, and future-proof our workforce. You’ll be a trusted advisor, a change enabler, and a champion of our values: Pride, Passion, People, and Personal Responsibility.
About You
You’ll be a credible and curious HR professional with a strong track record in organisational development, employee engagement, and strategic workforce planning. You’ll bring:
- Good employment law knowledge taking personal responsibility to keep up to date with employment matters.
- Passion, knowledge and experience in order to deliver high-quality advice, guidance and coaching to managers and leaders.
- The ability to develop and nurture effective working relationships to influence and support management teams on the development and delivery of their people plans.
- A collaborative, values-driven approach with the ability to influence, challenge, and inspire.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate data into meaningful insight.
- A desire to develop people and create a culture where everyone can thrive.
About the Role
As a strategic partner the role will work with directorates in close alignment with managers and leaders to support transformation through innovative change management, service redesign, and co-design methodologies. Embedding our people plans across directorates, aligning these with service outcomes. Using insight and data to inform strategic decisions and mitigate people-related risks whilst supporting the services managing a varied employee relations caseload. All whilst creating a learning culture by coaching and empowering managers to lead with confidence, clarity, and compassion.
What can we offer you?
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be actively encouraged.
Your work-life balance and wellbeing are really important to us, so you will have access to a range of benefits including:
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Free Car Parking
- Excellent Terms and Conditions
- Employee Wellbeing and Reward portal
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
If you would like to find out more, please read our detailed role profile attached.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you’re excited by the opportunity to lead, influence, and grow in a city that’s going places, we’d love to hear from you!
We will not be accepting candidates who require a sponsorship for this position.
Want to know more about Salford?
As an authority we are dedicated to improving the lives of our residents, and as an employer we are passionate about helping individuals to thrive in their work. We are committed to developing a diverse and inclusive culture and are proud of our professional accreditations which champion this.
Find out about our city as a place to live, work & grow, and learn more about the amazing work we are doing. You’ll also find out about the wealth of benefits we have to offer you on our Salford pages!
Continuous Service commitment
New employees can keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as well as many others under this scheme. Find out if this applies to you on our Continuous Service page..
Guaranteed Assessment Schemes
We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel by way of a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme. Our application forms ask you to indicate if you meet any of the criteria within this scheme, and so to find out more and if you qualify please visit our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme page..
Privacy Statement and Data Protection
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