HR Business Partner (Employee Relations) Scunthorpe, England
Job description
To support the council’s transformation programme, we are seeking to appoint a HR Business Partner to join our Business Partnering team. With a specific focus on employee relations, this role will work proactively with colleagues within Human Resources and Organisational Development and across the wider organisation to provide specialist advice and enable proactive, fair and consistent approaches.
If you have a detailed knowledge and understanding of employment law with proven ability to apply this to your professional practice, this is a great opportunity for you to make a difference in a large and diverse organisation. With the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, you will manage your own caseload both supporting and coaching colleagues through investigations and undertaking formal investigations and presenting at hearings and appeals.
A high-level problem-solver who practises with empathy and diplomacy, you will have the ability to develop strong working relationships and give carefully considered, legally compliant and proportionate advice. Coaching and mediation skills will be essential in this role along with experience of producing reports and letter on complex issues.
With agile working arrangements in place, along with a progressive workspace in a town centre location, you will be able to work flexibly and collaboratively across our organisation. We offer full training and induction and a supportive work environment along with a number of benefits.
Although this post is fixed term, where we can, we will always work hard to retain the best talent for North Lincolnshire Council.
If you have any questions about the role please contact Rebecca Stanford, Head of HR&OD at to arrange a convenient time to have an informal discussion.
Interview date: Thursday 22 September or Friday 23 September 2023
We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values – equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility – in all that we do.
