Strategic HR Business Partner
| Posting date: | 08 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £57,090 to £611,444 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 December 2025 |
| Location: | Huntingdon, PE284YE |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Ref/1767/7703 |
Summary
Strategic HR Business Partner Fixed term to 31st October 2026
Location: Cambridgeshire County Council, Alconbury Weald, PE284YE (flexible working arrangements)
Grade: P4 £57,090 – £61,1444
Reports to: Head of People Services
Are you an experienced HR professional ready to make a strategic impact and lead the delivery of high-quality HR services that drive organisational success.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact - Caroline.Adu-Bonsra@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
What will you be doing?In this pivotal role, you will:
- Partner with senior leaders to deliver innovative people management solutions.
- Provide expert advice on complex employee relations issues, including disciplinary, grievance, and tribunal cases.
- Shape workforce strategies, organisational design, and talent planning.
- Build strong relationships with trade unions and foster a positive employee relations climate.
- Provide strong leadership to a professional team of HR Advisors and Managers
What we’re looking for:
- CIPD level 7 qualified (or equivalent) and educated to degree level
- Extensive HR experience, including change management and complex casework.
- Strong knowledge of employment law and best practice.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and deliver creative solutions.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and coaching skills.
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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