Senior HR Business Partner
| Posting date: | 07 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £57,515 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 January 2026 |
| Location: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 443282/4 |
Summary
Do you support and challenge leaders to drive performance, capability, and engagement across teams?
Have you led and developed a team of HR professionals?
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 Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - Department for Transport Careers
Are you ready to shape the future of our workforce? As a Senior HR Business Partner you’ll lead a team of HR Business Partners, working 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:
Managing your team of professionals with integrity using engaging, inclusive and respectful leadership qualities, making sure capability, development needs, and aspirations are nurtured and metWorking with your fellow People directorate leaders in a joined-up and cohesive way, making sure there is effective strategic planning and communications, avoiding duplication and providing value-for-moneyBuild strong, engaging and collaborative relationships across DVSA, the Department, wider Civil Service and external organisationsProvide professional advice, guidance and subject matter expertise to the Directors and senior leaders to enable them to make informed strategic people management decisions for the AgencyEnsure the use of robust business intelligence and management information to enable evidence based, people management decisions to be taken by DVSA leaders.Lead the HR inputs to all restructures within business areas. Scope and deliver any organisational design and structure improvements and advise on and implement migration arrangementsMaintain and foster sound employee relations by advising and guiding managers on current legislation and lead on complex employee relations aspects of proposed changes to organisational structures, ensuring the full and timely application of all support processesGreat line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the attached 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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