hr business partner Saint Mellons, Wales
Job description
HR Business Partner
Job Description/
Person Specification
HR Business Partner
Responsible To: Central Services Director
Working Location: The successful candidate will be required to work from our Central office (St Mellons), but with the flexibility to attend all operational sites, as required.
Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week
Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 per annum
Who are Kaleidoscope?
Kaleidoscope is a pioneering substance misuse treatment provider, o ering evidence-based treatment and holistic support to individuals who access its services. We are a forward- looking organisation, passionate about developing services while keeping the needs of our service user community at the heart of what we do. Our achievements include initiating the f irst needle syringe exchange, on site methadone dispensing and the setting up of social enterprises. Kaleidoscope understands that, through listening to people, we’ll continue to innovate and campaign for the interests of those seeking help.
Our services span the whole of Wales as well as our Residential Unit in Heswall. At present we employee 250 sta ; these roles vary from Administrators to Clinical Sta . As HR
Business Partner you will sit within our small, but e ective Head O ce team.
Why join us?
95% of our sta say they are proud to work for us, why? Here is a snippet of what they’ve said:
HR Business Partner
This role is for you if enjoy no two days being the same and working with a range of people who ultimately make a di erence to people’s lives.
Whilst you are with us you will bene t from the following:
- Generous annual leave entitlement, based on service, but reaching 32 days per year
- Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave
- Company sick pay based on service
- Wellbeing incentives, including a Wellbeing Day o
- “You Day”- a day o to take for you!
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Electric Car scheme
- Cash back health care plan through Simplyhealth
- Family Friendly Policies, including enhanced maternity/paternity pay based on service and Dependency Leave
- Employee recognition schemes such as Employee of the Month, Long Service
Awards and Sta Awards
Why are we Recruiting?
As we grow as an organisation, we want to better support our workforce so that we are able to reach our goals and needs as an organisation.
You will support us in the planning, development, coordination and deliverance of our
Organisational and People Development strategies and interventions in order to drive high levels of employee engagement, developing a high performing culture and enabling cultural change.
You will lead us to deliver strategies and activities in an e cient and e ective manner; liaising with managers to develop and deliver initiatives.
HR Business Partner
Attract Retain Support Develop Reward
Supporting our overall Organisation Strategy is the People and Development Strategy, of which we work to the above ve objectives. These objectives will form the basis of how you carry out your role and how we will measure any trends, changes and our successes.
How you will make an impact…
- Ensure policies and procedures are in place that match our values, so that we can meet our objectives.
- Develop relationships with the management team to better deliver our objectives.
- Support and guide teams.
More than anything, we are looking for a team player who is passionate in their work. We have core values that run through everything we do and we’d love it if they resonate with you too!
HR Business Partner
Outcomes for the role:
- Work with managers to define people priorities that align with the experience we want to create for our workforce.
- Provide HR insight.
- Work with the wider HR team and organisation to co-design the right people products/initiatives.
- Plan, forecast, coordinate and broker HR activity (oversee delivery by calling upon the services of others).
- Facilitate discussions around change and transformation.
- Deliver products that encourage our people to take ownership of their own performance, careers and learning, but providing them with a range of different options, resources and experiences.
- Work with leaders to identify and develop their talent and ensure we create as many career defining experiences for all our people e.g. learning resources, peer to peer learning, mentoring, job shadowing, projects etc.
- Own the employee life cycle and key People practices for the departments such as induction, workforce planning, reward and recognition, career progression, engagement survey action planning.
- Deliver Diversity and Inclusion interventions to raise awareness, encourage open and honest conversations and allow our people to be themselves at work.
- Position and market ideas so the organisation understands the benefits.
- Work with people managers to support them to identify, build relationships with and attract future talent.
- Build our insight in how our people feel and what’s important to them.
- Provide development for managers on how to facilitate team reviews, setting goals and measuring results and how to have regular and human conversations.
- Work to create a seamless employee experience (with HR team and other support functions).
- Conduct site visits, liaising with teams to ensure consistency, build relationships and offer one to one support.
- Oversee employee engagement activities such as wellbeing initiatives and awards, and reward and recognition schemes.
- Lead the Sta Representative Group; arranging quarterly meetings, creating agendas, chairing meetings and ensuring appropriate information is fed back by way of organisational updates and consultation.
- Keeping abreast of legal matters that may affect the company.
- Liaise with accounts/ payroll with any staff personal details, salary and role changes.
- Ensure timely reports are submitted to payroll with details of new starters/leavers/variations to T&Cs.
- Support in the monitoring, continuous improvement and implementation of HR systems
HR Business Partner
- Provide line management support to the HR Admin and Recruitment and Onboarding
Officer: o Complete regular supervisions o Complete annual appraisals
- Lead on the well-being strategy for the Organisation.
- Ensure all accreditations/awards are kept up to date and where relevant and look to improve on these.
- Ensure timely Manager Monthly Reports and Quarterly Reports are sent, highlighting areas for development.
- Develop and deliver training packages.
- Support the development and implementation of HR initiatives and systems.
HR Business Partner
Great to haves…
The below lists the attributes and qualifications which would be great to have, but if you do not meet them and feel you can contribute and fulfil the role in other ways, we’d still love to hear from you!
As with all our roles, your will be required to undertake a DBS check at enhanced level.
Your role will require you to work across our services, so a full drivers licence and access to own car is needed.
- GCSE English Literature or Language and Maths grade C or above (or equivalent).
- CIPD qualification, or equivalent
- Management qualification, such as ILM
- Ability to work effectively with people regardless of their ethnic, cultural, social backgrounds, their gender, age, religious belief, disability and sexual orientation.
- A good understanding of the legal requirements relating to Data Protection and
Recruitment practices.
- A good understanding of the importance of timely and accurate information regarding personnel issues and that personal data is handled in the strictest of confidence.
- Previous experience of working in HR.
- Excellent IT skills- Word/Excel and Databases
- Ability to build and develop relationships with internal staff, strategic partners and other external parties/ organisations.
- Able to deal data requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Good face to face skills.
- Good presentation skills.
- Experience in internal company communications.
- Understand and adapts to different styles and audiences.
- Works to understand employee and employer’s needs.
- Strives to exceed expectations.
- Ability to work to deadlines and conflicting priorities.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £28,000.00-£30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Company car
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
