Ministry of Justice UK
Human Resources Manager (Ref: 20166)
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Human Resources Manager
Grade HEO
Team/Directorate: MoJ People and Capability - HR Business Partnering (HMPPS)
Locations
These positions are based at Bristol Magistrates Bristol, BS1 3NU, HM Prison Bristol Bristol, BS7 8PS, HM Prison Erlestoke Devizes, SN10 5TU, HMP Channings Wood Newton Abbot, TQ12 6DW, HMP Leyhill Wotton Under Edge, GL12 8BT, HMP Verne Portland, DT5 1EQ, HMYOI Exeter, EX4 4EX, HMYOI Guys Marsh Shaftsbury, SP7 0AH, HMYOI Portland, DT5 1DL, MOJ JSO Weston Super Mare Queensway House, BS22 7BB, NMS Deane House, TA1 1HE, NPS 2 Westwey Road Weymouth, DT4 8SU, NPS 3-5 Barnfield Road Exeter, EX1 1RD, NPS 63 Commercial Road Poole, BH14 0JB, NPS 7 Madeira Road Bournemouth, BH1 1QL, NPS Bath Magistrates And County Court Bath, BA1 5AF, NPS Probation Offices Dorset County Council Dorchester, DT1 1XJ, NPS Twyver House Gloucester, GL1 1DR, NPS Yeovil County Court Yeovil, BA20 2QD
Job Summary
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Job Description
Overview Of The Role
The Ministry of Justice People and Capability (MoJ P&C) supports the organisation by enabling its people to be the best that they can be. We are continuously reviewing and enhancing the services that P&C provide across the MoJ to deliver high quality services for our customers. MoJ has a team of committed and capable professionals delivering people services across the Justice family.
With a passion for people management and a desire to build an HR generalist foundation for a future career, the post holder will work with managers from within HMPPS to optimise the effective working relationship and ensure maximum impact of HR on business effectiveness. This is your opportunity to be part of the HR enabling prisons and probation to make society safer and help people turn live.
The role involves a proactive approach to problem solving and enabling the business to find solutions to HR challenges. With a generalist knowledge of case management and essential functional HR experience, the role is key to enabling business leaders through interpretation of HR policy, application of case management advice and the delivery of key HR processes to maintain the links with essential systems; SSCL, Occupational Health, Civil Service Pensions etc.
Summary
As a HR professional in either a regional role or a HQ delivery role to a sector of the business, the post holder will support business leaders, managers and specialists with more complex HR cases and provide a professional link to the central case management service, working together to achieve effective outcomes.
As the first point of contact to the business, the post holder would be required to manage stakeholder expectations and gather business intelligence to provide specialist advice or deploy the appropriate service from within the team.
Responsibilities, Activities And Duties
- Supporting an area of the business with wide ranging impact, appraising, assessing and adapting to a wide range of issues on a day-to-day basis and developing options to maintain or improve performance.
- Role holder will have autonomy to make decisions within their discrete area of work to deploy appropriate resources using initiative and in communication with their established network of contacts across the wider HR community.
- Interpreting HR advice which may require follow up questions or discussion to understand the wider impact of the issue.
- Decisions might involve considerable discretion but will be constrained by policy and best practice.
- Analysing HR data and applying understanding to decide on an appropriate intervention or course of action.
- Considering sensitive or multiple opposing opinions to establish facts; establishing the best approach; determining appropriate methodologies; analysis to ensure quality and application of results.
- Exercise judgement and make decisions based on their own interpretation. Details may be unclear and require further investigation.
- Required to maintain relationships by supporting others, contribute to team decisions and use initiative to solve problems.
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Contribute Directly To The Achievement Of Operational Organisational Objectives By Developing Internal Credibility And Providing Guidance And Consultancy To Managers On HR Related Issues, Which Include:
- Employment Tribunal, Grievance, Disciplinary Support
- Attendance Management Support
- Audit, Assurance & Compliance
- Commissioner: Expert Services & Support (Internal & External)
Essential Knowledge, Experience And Skills
- Previous experience of an HR delivery role. (assessed via CV)
- The ability to confidently build and manage a diverse range of relationships, including with senior stakeholders. (assessed via behaviour Managing a quality service)
- Supporting others to optimise performance of their People Management Skills. (assessed via behaviour Leadership)
- Excellent communication skills, both in verbal and written formats. (assessed via behaviour Communicating and Influencing)
- Ability to analyse and understand data and apply analytics to business delivery. (assessed via behaviour Managing a Quality Service)
Desirable Experience, Knowledge And Skills
- Previous experience of working in a HR team within the Civil Service and an awareness of the wider Civil Service HR operating model.
- Experience of HR consultancy work or other service delivery based on a Customer Relationship Model.
We may consider any evidence within the application form that demonstrates meeting the desirable criteria as set out in the job description. This will only be after essential criteria is scored and where there is a need to differentiate between closely scored candidates.
Location and travel requirements
There are 2 roles being advertised.
One role will be supporting the Prisons in the South West region and the other, supporting Probation.
The successful candidates can choose to be based at the following locations:
- HMP Leyhill, HMP Bristol, HMP Channing’s Wood, HMP The Verne, HMP Portland, HMP Erlestoke, HMP Exeter, HMYOI Guys Marsh
- Bristol Magistrates Bristol,
- Taunton Probation Office, Deane House, Belvedere Road, Taunton, TA1 1HE
- Twyver House, Bruton Way, Gloucester
- 7 Madeira Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 1QL
- NPS 2 WESTWEY ROAD WEYMOUTH,
- NPS 63 COMMERCIAL ROAD POOLE,
- NPS Bath Magistrates and County Court,
- NPS PROBATION OFFICES DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL DORCHESTER
- 3-5 Barnfield Road, Exeter, EX1 1RD
- Queensway House, The Hedges, Worle, BS22 7BB
- Yeovil, 22 Hendford, Yeovil, BA20 2QD
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The successful candidates will be required to travel occasionally to other prison and probation sites within the South West region.
Qualification
Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or equivalent, or willingness to work towards a qualification as part of career development.
This role may be linked to the HR Apprenticeship (Level 5) as a pathway into CIPD accreditation.
Application Process
Sift
Experience
Please submit an anonymous copy of your CV.
Behaviours
Please provide 250-word examples of how you have met each one of the behaviours listed below:
- Managing a Quality Service (Lead Behavior)
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Working together
Please refer to the ‘essential knowledge, experience and skills’ section above which details how each of the essential criteria will be assessed.
Should we receive a large number of applications, we will sift primarily on the lead behaviour of Managing a Quality Service.
Successful applicants will then be invited to an interview, testing both behaviours and strengths.
Interview
During the interview, we will be assessing you on the Behaviours listed above and Strengths from the Success Profiles framework.
Behaviours:
- Managing a Quality Service (lead)
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Working together
If you have any questions regarding the role please contact
Victoria.coumbe@justice.gov.uk
Job Title: Human Resources Manager
Grade HEO
Team/Directorate: MoJ People and Capability - HR Business Partnering (HMPPS)
Behaviours:
- Managing a Quality Service (lead)
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Working together
If you have any questions regarding the role please contact
Victoria.coumbe@justice.gov.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
Please answer 'yes' to meeting the qualification requirement if you are either:
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or equivalent
- or willing to work towards a qualification as part of career development.
If you are answering yes to option 2, please upload a note indicating your willingness to work towards the qualification.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Working Together
Alongside your salary of £35,335, Ministry of Justice contributes £10,236 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
- Access to learning and development
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance
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