Assistant HR Business Partner

Permanent
Full time
35
£28,784.40 - £33,864.00
Hybrid - home based and Birmingham
Corporate Functions (HR, Finance, Project Management, IT, Risk and Audit)

We have a great opportunity for an Assistant HRBP to join our team.

The role
You will proactively manage your own workload, you will own HR projects (or parts of projects) for the organisation, or a particular business area and also support HRBP’s with various project work. Collating and analysing HR and business metrics, you will draft reports and papers relating to HR/People activities and trends to provide HR insight and input into delivery of business plans and strategy. You will also be responsible for a varied portfolio of employee relations casework and provide day-to-day operational advice and tactical solutions to managers and Directors on HR policies and processes.


Providing risk-based advice and support at hearings, you will be confident in challenging and empowering Managers and Directors with the implementation of grievance, disciplinary, capability and performance procedures. Forging trusted successful relationships, you will build credibility with stakeholders to ascertain successful working relationships. You will work alongside Managers, encouraging and advising them on the implementation of the Group Absence Management Policy whilst actively contributing to the development of strategies to minimise absence within the organisation.

The successful candidate will need to be a pro-active self-starter with excellent communication and influencing skills to be able to confidently explain the rationale for advice and decisions, challenge all levels of management where appropriate and be capable of handling difficult situations in a calm manner.

What is in it for you?

  • Are you an aspiring HRBP? This might be the perfect steppingstone for a talented and ambitious HR professional to take a lead on projects as well as manage HR employee relations casework
  • Apply your HR knowledge to particular business challenges
  • Opportunity to build relationships and positively influence decisions.

What we are looking for

  • Experience of managing and providing tactical, risk-based HR advice on multiple ER cases
  • Demonstrable experience of leading and supporting HR project work
  • Proven experience of supporting change management programmes
  • Appropriate application of employment law and HR best practice
  • Ideally CIPD (or equivalent) qualified or working towards.

Useful information

  • There is a role profile attached at the bottom of this advert which details the full skills and experience required
  • This is a hybrid role and will be based in our Birmingham 1 to 2 days a week, and from home the rest of the week
  • Salary range for a Birmingham based role is £28,784.40 - £33,864.00 and an offer will be dependent on demonstrable knowledge, skills and experience the successful candidate can bring to the role
  • All our interviews are being conducted virtually. If you are successful, a member of the team will be in contact to let you know the next steps
  • If you have any questions that aren’t in this advert or on our website, please contact us via: recruitment@sra.org.uk
  • Previous applicants need not apply.

To apply

Please click ‘apply’ to complete the online application form and upload a CV and cover letter, addressing how you meet the requirements outlined in this advert and the attached role profile.

To find out more about the recruitment and selection process and how to make the most of your application, please visit our jobs pages.

Closing date for applications is Sunday 20 November at 23:55

The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards.
We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
Assistant HR Business Partner role profile July 2021 (1).docx – 71KB
Converted File Assistant HR Business Partner role profile July 2021 (1).docx.pdf – 108KB
Vacancy closing date: 12/12/2022, 23:55

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.

Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.

 We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.

This opportunity is closed to applicants.