Ipsum
Assistant HR Business Partner
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Assistant HR Business Partner
Assistant HR Business Partner
Location: Home-based with regular travel to North-based locations
Travel: Regular travel across the North of England required
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Working Hours: Monday – Friday
What’s In It For You…
We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job — you’re starting a career with real support behind you.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy more
- Hybrid working
- Group Personal Pension Plan
- Car allowance
- Career development & progression, with the opportunity to earn professional qualifications
- 24/7 access to a virtual GP and Mental health support and counselling services
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Discount club – Supermarkets, phone bills, gyms & more!
- Life assurance cover
- Long service recognition
- Active local social committees
- Regular social events
About The Role
We’re looking for an experienced and commercially minded Assistant HR Business Partner to join our Power division, partnering closely with Senior Leadership Teams and operational leaders to deliver impactful people solutions.
In this role, you’ll act as a trusted advisor, owning the full employee lifecycle and ensuring that our people strategy drives performance, enhances culture, and builds long-term organisational capability. This is a highly visible role where you will balance hands-on operational delivery with strategic, data-led insight.
Working alongside the Head of HR, you’ll play a key role in delivering the divisional people agenda, aligned to the wider HR strategy. You’ll influence workforce effectiveness, strengthen leadership capability, enhance engagement, and support critical business change initiatives.
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This role also provides the opportunity to lead on the people aspects of growth activity, including acquisitions, TUPE transfers, and integration programmes, ensuring they are delivered smoothly, compliantly, and with strong commercial outcomes.
What You’ll Be Doing
As an Assistant HR Business Partner, you will:
Partnering with Leadership & Delivering Strategy
- Partner with leaders to develop robust workforce and succession plans, ensuring effective performance management frameworks are in place
- Use people data and insights to drive performance improvements and enhance employee engagement
- Lead and support organisational design, transformation, and change initiatives end-to-end, including TUPE and acquisitions
- Act as a trusted voice within Senior Leadership Teams (SLT) and management forums, providing pragmatic HR and employment law guidance
- Support the delivery of key HR initiatives, including:
- Engagement surveys
- Culture programmes
- Leadership development
Employee Lifecycle Support
You’ll provide hands-on support across the full employee lifecycle, including:
- Attraction, onboarding, and induction
- Probation reviews and performance management
- Employee relations (disciplinaries, grievances, absence, and performance concerns)
- Flexible working requests
- Reward, pay reviews, and benefits
- Restructures, redundancy processes, and offboarding
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Leadership & Best Practice
- Coach and empower managers to build leadership capability and accountability
- Drive consistency and best practice in people management across the business
About You
You’re a confident and credible HR professional who thrive in a fast-paced, matrix environment. You may already be operating at HR Business Partner level, or you’re an experienced Senior HR Advisor ready to step into your next challenge.
Key Requirements
- A strong generalist HR background with solid experience across the employee lifecycle
- Proven experience of leading complex change initiatives, including restructures, TUPE, and contract variations
- A strong working knowledge of employment law and its practical application
- Ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels
- Track record of delivering commercially focused, strategic HR solutions
Essential Qualifications & Attributes
You’ll also be:
- CIPD qualified (Level 5 minimum)
- An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills
- Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable navigating change
- Proactive in your approach to both business challenges and your own development
Our Commitment to Equal Opportunities
We’re proud to be equal opportunities employers. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and experiences, and we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.
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