Location
Hounslow

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£52,194 per annum

About Us at Hounslow
We would love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It is about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community; we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model, and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.

Our Benefits
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits.

About The Role
The Schools Workforce HR and Development Team offer a first class, modern and inventive HR advisory service to the borough’s schools as well as to the commercial and voluntary sector. The HR Advisory Service is one of three services within the Schools Workforce HR and Development Team and as one of three People Business Partners, working in conjunction with the Senior People Business Partner and the Head of Schools HR Traded Services & Strategic People Lead for Children’s and Adult Services, you will play a pivotal role in delivering and continuing to develop a first class HR service to schools in Hounslow and beyond. We are seeking to recruit an experienced and knowledgeable HR professional to assist with the delivery of the excellent guidance and support we provide to Hounslow schools.

You will be an integral part of a HR team driving interventions and supporting business focused solutions as well as embedding best practice and people effectiveness, to Headteachers and Governors within Hounslow Schools. You will also actively contribute to the development of innovative and leading-edge people and organisational effectiveness strategies, policies and practices as a member of the Schools Workforce HR and Development Team. The team is part of the People Business Partnering team and collaborates across the wider organisation to deliver strategic and operational projects that explicitly benefit Hounslow residents.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In
- You will work collaboratively with the Head of Schools HR Traded Services & Strategic People Lead for Children’s and Adult Services to implement the HR & OD offer for Hounslow’s schools, commercial organisations, and the voluntary sector.
- You will contribute to the delivery of a first class, modern and inventive people business partnering service within the borough’s schools and the commercial sector, by developing a deep understanding of these business areas.
- You will build strong relationships with Headteachers, Senior Leaders and other stakeholders to understand their needs and influence suitable people strategies and solutions.
- You will contribute to the work of the three strands of the HR Traded Service to Schools, i.e. HR Advisory team, Schools transactional Team and the Recruitment and Workforce Development Team.
- You will work collaboratively with the Assistant Director - People Services, the Head of Schools HR Traded Services & Strategic People Lead for Children’s and Adult Services and your colleagues to ensure that the employee journey and experience within Hounslow’s schools and amongst our commercial and voluntary sector partners is the very best that it can be.

Experience
- Experience working within the education sector, specifically schools, providing a consultancy approach HR service.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of the terms and conditions applicable to teachers and school-based staff.
- Comprehensive knowledge of UK employment law and its effective application in the workplace.
- Experience working in a unionised environment.
- Experience of reviewing and writing policy documents.
- Ability to conduct detailed research and analysis to support Management Information requirements.

About You
- Sound and detailed knowledge and understanding of HR best practice, employment law and organisational change.
- Ability to coach and support managers to increase management capability within schools.
- Effective communication skills with the ability to tailor advice to varying organisations.
- Ability to develop excellent relationships with Headteachers, School Leaders, Managers and stakeholders.
- Ability to support colleagues in the wider HR Team to achieve business goals and objectives.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, knowing when to consult colleagues.
- Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Qualifications
- CIPD qualified or substantial demonstrable work experience evidencing an equivalent level of attainment and competence.
- Enhanced DBS check and a clean full driving licence are essential for this role.

Additional Information
We recognise that the perfect candidate may not exist. If you can do most of what we’re looking for, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this or other roles within the organisation.