HR Expert Services Policy Consultant
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 02 Chwefror 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £37,922 i £45,259 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £37,922 - £41,992 (National) £40,974 - £45,259 (London) |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 15 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | S3 7UF |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 446522/6 |
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We support the government workforce with the right skills and capability. We are working with leaders to get the right people in the right jobs, with the right skills and continuous learning to excel in their roles.
We provide leadership, and in turn, create leaders with exceptional line management capability across departments, influencing partners in the wider public sector and beyond. This involves getting our retention and reward strategy right, to nurture specific skills, and create pride and resilience in our workforce.
Our role is also to provide system leadership across central government in pulling together back office services. Collectively, we help support the Cabinet Office’s priority to drive efficiencies, and reforms that will make government work better, to ultimately provide a better service to the public.
This role is within the Pay, Policy and Pensions domain of GPG, which plays a central role in developing and maintaining core HR model policies. This ensures all government departments and agencies have access to consistent, legally compliant, and best-practice policy and procedures, thereby avoiding duplication of effort and ensuring value for money across government.
A key function of the team is providing expert policy advice, addressing complex HR policy queries and proactively amending policies to reflect changes in legislation, such as the Employment Rights Bill and case law.
Policy & Practice also delivers and coordinates specialist independent expert services such as Mediation, HR Investigations, Workplace Adjustments, and Job Evaluation, offering crucial advice and support to departments. It collaborates with departments to develop and sustain a comprehensive, cross-government wellbeing offer. Through supporting HR forums and a digital hub, it actively fosters best practice and shared learning within the HR function.
Successful candidates will have an excellent opportunity to develop and enhance core HR skills and expert business knowledge. Comprehensive training will be provided across all necessary areas, offering significant scope to expand HR knowledge and expertise.
Are you starting out on your journey in the HR profession? Do you want to make a difference to the working lives of your colleagues? Have you thought about working with a team that offers the opportunity to develop yourself and others. Yes? This could be the opportunity that you have been looking for.
This role is within the Pay, Policy and Pensions domain, a vital part of the Cabinet Office's Government People Group (GPG), which is central to the mission of creating a modern and effective Civil Service by collaborating with departments, professions, and functions.
A core function is to define and maintain essential HR model policies and support departmental customers. This involves providing expert policy advice, handling intricate HR policy questions, and assisting legal compliance across departments through the Policy & Practice Hub.
Role responsibilities
HR Policy Development and Maintenance: Oversee and maintain a portfolio of HR model policies, ensuring they remain legally compliant and are updated as required.
Expert Policy Advice: Lead and line manage a small team in delivering expert guidance and advice on complex HR policy matters to government departments via the Policy & Practice Hub.
Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Develop and provide policy updates and information to departments through various established channels, including the departmental HR contacts and practitioners, networks, Trade Unions, and legal teams.
Policy Commission Triage: Perform an initial assessment role for potential new HR policy commissions, whether originating from departments, Senior Leaders/Ministers, or in response to changes in legislation.
Correspondence Handling: Manage and respond to formal requests, including Freedom of Information requests, Parliamentary Questions, and Official Correspondence.
Work Programme: Supporting G7 Team Leader to coordinate and monitor the domain work programme, assessing and highlighting domain progress against key priority deliverables to the Senior Management Team.
Secretariat: providing secretariat support to engagement groups including maintaining membership lists, commissioning and collating regular data requests, providing updates to the membership and recording notes from meetings.
Hub Activity: Maintaining and uploading to a digital cross government information store which hosts a range of HR products and information.
Other activities may include working with senior colleagues to scope and implement improvements to content or working on other expert service delivery areas, along with participation in delivering special projects.
Operational leadership and line management of team members across multiple locations.
Develop self and teams to provide a continuous learning environment to increase HR policy and service expertise and supporting knowledge Management within the domain.
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