Senior HR & OD Advisor
Hours: 37.00
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £33,782 - £37,890 per annum
Closing: 12 February 2022
Interviews: 21 February 2022

In this Senior HR & OD Advisor role, you’ll act as a trusted advisor to senior managers in Children’s Services; helping them to improve performance and to embed our values and behaviours.

You’ll play a key role in supporting delivery of the Children’s Services improvement plan. On a day-to-day basis, this will see you offering expert guidance on matters related to workforce development, recruitment and retention, employee engagement and wellbeing.

You’ll also spend some of your time advising on complex employee relations issues. You’ll deliver OD interventions too - providing training, facilitating focus groups, running 1:1 coaching and driving people-related change and transformation.

From collaborating with trade union representatives to supporting managers and staff internally, your persuasion and influencing skills are going to be put to excellent use. It would be ideal if you have experience of and understand children’s social work within local government, however, this is not essential if you have transferrable skills and knowledge.

We’re looking for someone with significant experience advising managers on complex employee relations matters, and a sound understanding of employment law. You should also be familiar with delivering OD initiatives, assisting services to transform and drive performance through people to improve services following external inspections.

The role offers flexible working and the duties can mostly be carried out remotely, with attendance at our Hereford office 2 days per week on average

To find out more about the role and the team, please e-mail lorna.simpson@herefordshire.gov.uk for a confidential discussion.

We welcome applicants whatever their personal characteristics or social identity. All requests for flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered.

The following candidates will be interviewed if they meet the essential criteria for the post they are applying for:
• Those who indicate that they have a disability. This is part of our commitment to the “Disability Confident” scheme;
• Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are an Armed Forces Veteran or Reservist. This is part of our pledge to support the Armed Forces Covenant; and
• Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are a Herefordshire care leaver. This is part of our commitment to supporting young people leaving our care.

Benefits with Herefordshire Council
• Holidays: 25 days per year, increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• Pension: LGS pension scheme
• Pick your perks – our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts.
• We also offer an employee assistance programme that means you will have access to confidential support and advice if you ever need it.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details of this role.

To apply, please submit your CV along with a supporting statement, referring to the job description and person specification, detailing how you meet the specific requirements of the role.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you would like to obtain details regarding feedback on your application please contact Hoople Resourcing at: enquiries@hoopleresourcing.co.uk