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Role: Workforce Planning Advisor

Department: People and Organisational Development

Location: Carbrook - Force HQ, Sheffield

Salary: £24,552 - £26,958

Hours: 37hrs

Contract Type: Temporary for 12 months (various roles available)

Role Purpose:

You will oversee moves, transfers and posting of officers and staff across the force, ensuring consistency and moves are in line with finance regulations and completed in a timely manner. You will also be responsible for the accuracy, consistency and quality of the workforce data held on the HR system and challenge any deviation from it.

Acting as an internal consultant/ trusted advisor, the role will support the delivery of key workforce planning strategies involving all aspects of workforce planning including the production of effective workforce analysis, reporting and insight to drive management decision.

Key Responsibilities:

Over the next 12 months within this exciting role, you will:

• Contribute to forecasting and provision of key workforce data.
• Support the monitoring of the workforce including recruitment and leavers identifying trends and gaps and making recommendations to address these.
• Work with HR Business partners/BC&I in the rebuild of any districts/departments.
• Support IS with testing of the system for upgrades, making recommendations and seeking improvements
• Collate applications for temporary promotions and transfers, ensuring validity and present to Workforce Deployment Board.
• Ensure ongoing validation a cleansing of data within the systems
• Work with the Districts/Departments to ensure moves and transfers are completed in an accurate and timely manner and there is funding behind the post.
• Work with the Business Analysts to identify enhancements in the reporting process.
• Continually seek improvements and streamline processes.

Skills and experience:

• Understanding of data and analytics with an ability to demonstrate to others its impact.
• Skilled in engaging a diverse range of stakeholders, building relationships that are based on trust, working collaboratively and to improve the employee experience and align to the organisation’s values.
• Able to use a range of communication and influencing techniques and methods to successfully negotiate, collaborate and/or effect change.
• This role may suit people with CIPD level 3, but it is not essential
• Experience of using data to support the business.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Maintain understanding of the forces priorities and how these link to own work.

Maintain professional performance/ business management skills including keeping up to date with new developments in workforce planning standards, policy, and practice.

Benefits:

We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Generous ‘family’ leave
• Voluntary CPD Events for all staff to allow continuous development
• Mentoring & Coaching Scheme
• Access to a range of occupational health facilities
• Generous pension scheme
• Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
• Additional benefits for Westfield Health members
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sports and Social Club

Eligibility:

Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. A minimum checkable history of 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.

Appearance & Standards:

SYP is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain role sensitive professional standards in dress and appearance. Officers, staff, and volunteers of South Yorkshire Police are permitted to have tattoos visible whilst on duty provided the tattoo is not considered to be unacceptable or otherwise inappropriate. Tattoos will be reviewed as part of the recruitment and selection process.

South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values:

Please find attached information sheet on South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values. The force has a particular focus on three areas, Fairness, Integrity and Trust. Under each of these three headings there are key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.

Smarter ways of Working:

South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables SYP to provide an outstanding service to the community.

There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid.

This role has been evaluated as a Hybrid role.

Fixed: This is a traditional arrangement, applicable when the work is mostly required to be undertaken at a fixed single place of work (on police premises) for most of the time. The work can only or is more effectively delivered from a police premises or other agreed organisational/partner premises.

Field: This applies to roles that do have a base, however, due to the nature of their duties is required to travel to other locations. Due to the nature of these roles, they cannot accommodate flexible working from home on a permanent basis.

Hybrid: Applicable when the work can be undertaken at any location, whether that be a SYP building or from home.

Closing Date:

Friday 4 August 2023 at 23:55

Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made between the Talent Acquisition Manager and the Line Manager for the role.

Contact point for applicants:

For further information about the role, please contact Rebecca Salamut via email on - [email protected]. Please do not contact this number for an application form.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Expressions of interest are particularly welcome from female and ethnic minority candidates.

It’s really important to us that the department represents the community we serve, in order for us to provide the best service, utilising a range of backgrounds, experience and skills. We support and value all officers and staff and the unique experiences they bring to the role. We strongly encourage and welcome expressions of interest from these valuable underrepresented groups.

If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on [email protected]

In addition, we will look to support anyone who requires Part Time/Job share working hours.

Note to candidates:

Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage, the relevant internal or external pre-employment checks are required. These include vetting clearance or review, prior to being appointed to the new role and start date being agreed.