HR Business Partner
| Posting date: | 01 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £44,241 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 October 2025 |
| Location: | Nottingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 430159/5 |
Summary
Do you support and challenge leaders to drive performance, capability, and engagement across teams?
Have you delivered HR policies and led change initiatives that improve outcomes and add value for money?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably. We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- Make roads safer
- Improve services for our customers
- Make road transport greener and healthier
- Harness the potential of technology and data
- Grow and level up the economy
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DVSA.
Are you ready to shape the future of our workforce? As an HR Business Partner, you’ll work side by side with senior leaders to deliver impactful, strategic HR solutions. You’ll drive performance, boost engagement, and help create a culture where people thrive. From influencing policy to leading change, you’ll play a key role in delivering real value for colleagues and customers. If you're passionate about making a difference through people, we want to hear from you.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
Working with partner managers to develop and monitor plans to deliver business objectives through their people, applying People Directorate models and plans where appropriateDeveloping innovative, timely and cost-effective solutions, and ensure that business requirements are incorporated into People Directorate initiativesInform the business of key People Directorate messages, initiatives, and policies so that these are understood in a timely way, and managers ensure fair and consistent practice across their teamsCoaching and supporting business managers to lead and facilitate change, enabling them to implement change using appropriate skills, models, tools, and techniquesWorking with senior leaders, to develop HR interventions and strategies to improve organisational performance, capability and skills and create a high-performance workplaceAnalyse, interpret, and monitor management information, providing senior managers with meaningful insight and advice to address business problems and provide recommendations that facilitate continuous improvementBuilding productive relationships and engaging with stakeholders, both internally and externally, to ensure strong partnerships, creating a high performing and well-respected AgencyWorking with colleagues across the People Directorate to provide a professional consultancy model to best support DVSA and our customersFor further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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