Human Resources Business Partner London, England
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In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile.
DHSC’s Role and Purpose:
- Support and advise our ministers. We provide world class advice that is supported by expert research and analysis. We are accountable to Parliament and to the public and we strive to achieve the highest standards of good governance is everything we do.
- Driving transformation of the health and care system. We are at the heart of the health and care system. We set the strategy, shape policy, secure the funding and develop the legislation that supports it.
- Delivering services. We play a major role in people’s day to day lives and work with our agencies and partners to deliver health and wellbeing. We think ahead to ensure that services can respond to changing needs. We are there in the last resort to take the action necessary to safeguard the nation’s health.
- Helping others to deliver. We work with other government departments, our agencies and partners locally, regionally, nationally and internationally to contribute to the government’s wider health, economic and social goals.
If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.
Job description
In this exciting role, you’ll work in partnership with senior leaders as you build our organisational capability and capacity. Using your experience and understanding of strategic workforce planning, performance and talent management, and the identification of creative people solutions whilst working closely with key stakeholders, you will develop and deliver people interventions to enable the business to address and respond to their key people risks.
As a HR Business Partner, you will be the face of HR for the business. You will work alongside, influence and provide constructive challenge to senior leaders, partnering at DG level. Using Organisational Design and Development, Strategic Workforce Planning and engagement strategies you will ensure your business area is set up to deliver the department’s priorities. These are exciting roles in a unique time for the Department and opportunity to use your partnering skills and support the Department through a time of unparalleled change.
This is a business-focussed, leadership, delivery and engagement role, offering a fantastic opportunity to have a big impact at a senior level across the organisation. The roles will require previous HRBP experience at a strategic level alongside confidence and assurance in working with senior business stakeholders.
As a HR Business Partner in DHSC, you will partner with members of our Executive team at Director General level and their wider senior leadership team to deliver on HR/people strategies, offering professional expertise and support on all people issues.
Person specification
Key accountabilities for the role include:
- HRBP responsibility for critically partnering a Director General and Senior leadership team, leading on providing HR insight to shape business strategy
- Developing, commissioning and implementing people, culture and HR solutions to business issues, focussed on the longer term strategic goals of the business area
- Providing business insight to shape HR strategies, priorities, continuous improvement and interventions
- Providing strategic HR partnering and leadership to leaders across the directorate
- Partnering relevant Heads of Profession to ensure we are building the long-term professional capability of the Department
- Lead HRBP for an HR functional area (for example, reward, resourcing, talent, performance management, capability). Ensuring a proactive two-way flow of information between functional teams and the HRBP team. This includes developing clear strategies, priorities, key messages, timelines and business engagement activity
- Work in collaboration with Workforce Planning, Resourcing and OD&D on strategic workforce planning challenges.
- Personal leadership, working in a visible and approachable way, helping to inspire colleagues and stakeholders to fully engage with the aims and long-term vision and influencing the strategy, direction and culture to increase organisational effectiveness.
Essential Criteria
- Excellent project management skills with experience of leading people aspects of complex change initiatives
- A proven track record and experience of working as a HR Business Partner in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to demonstrate agility and experience of managing a variety of stakeholders at all levels, through all areas of the employee lifecycle
- Evidence of influencing People Strategies and driving good people outcomes including the ability to understand and implement leading edge people initiatives.
- Experience of working at a strategic, tactical and operational level within a HR function, and delivering to the wider organisation
- Excellent leadership and networking skills, the ability to build strong, trust-based professional partnerships with a range of stakeholders and ability to influence and challenge at all levels
- Able to demonstrate how to use sound judgement, data and evidence to make decisions, using and the ability to evidence impact on the business through appropriate metrics and insight
- Should have achieved or be willing to work towards Chartered CIPD Membership
Person Specification
- Proactive and flexible
- Can do approach, willing to get involved
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative to find creative solutions
- Calm under pressure
- Good problem solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication skills at all levels
- Attention to detail and accuracy
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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Selection process details
Sift date: expected W/C 04/10/2023
Interview date: expected W/C 23/10/2023
Interview location: By video. Further details will be released to candidates who are successful at sift.
The available interview slots will be released with the sift scores.
Applications will be sifted on CV and Statement of Suitability.
Please use your CV to set out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role. These can be found in the ‘key skills and experience required for the role’ section of the advert.
Please use your statement of suitability to (in no more than 1000 words) outline how you meet the key skills and experience required for the role as set out in the job advert.
At interview candidates will be assessed on Behaviours, Strengths and a Presentation.
Candidates will be asked a presentation which will assess a behaviour: e.g. Seeing the Big Picture. Details of the presentation question will be issued to candidates with the release of the sift scores.
To find out more about working in the department please visit our page on the Civil Service Careers Website here and to find out more information on how to apply visit the Civil Service Careers Website here
Applicants who are appointable but were not successful in appointment to this vacancy, may be held on a reserve list for up to 12 months, and contacted if similar vacancies become available.
Please be aware that some travel may be required across the DHSC estate.
Please note that applicants will require BPSS clearance.
Further Information
A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.
Any move to DHSC from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
Reasonable Adjustment
If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section in the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
This role is being advertised on a permanent basis. If preferable, Loan or Secondment options will also be available for existing Civil Servants (Loan) and applicants from accredited NDPBs (Secondment). Prior agreement to be released on a loan basis must be obtained before commencing the application process. In the case of Civil Servants, the terms of the loan will be agreed between the home and host department and the Civil Servant. This includes grade on return.
Terms and Conditions
Candidates should note that DHSC’s Terms and Conditions of employment changed from 1 October 2013. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the terms and conditions they will adopt should they be successful.
New Entrants to the Civil Service
New entrants appointed in grades AA to G6 will receive DHSC’s modernised terms and conditions:
- Annual Leave: 25 days on entry rising by one day for each completed year of service to a maximum of 30 days and pro-rata for part-time staff
- Privilege Leave: 1 day - for the King’s birthday
- Hours of Work: 37 hours (net) per week for full time staff in all geographical locations, including London and pro rata for part-time staff
- Occupational Sick Pay (OSP): one month full pay/one month half pay on entry, rising by one month for each completed year of service to a maximum of five months’ full pay and five months’ half pay
- Mobility: Mobility clause in contracts allow staff to be mobile across the Civil Service
- Probation: 6 month probation period
Existing Civil Service staff transferring from another Government department, on either level transfer or promotion
All staff moving to DHSC will transfer onto DHSC’s modernised terms and conditions (as outlined above).
Existing DHSC staff, appointed on either level transfer or promotion
If DHSC’s modernised terms and conditions are already held, the employee will retain those terms and conditions. If DHSC’s pre-modernised terms and conditions are held, the employee will transfer onto DHSC’s modernised terms and conditions (as outlined above).
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Further information
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/contact-us/
