Associate HR Business Partner

OverviewThe Associate HR Business Partner (AHRBP) role sits within the Strategy, People and Culture (SPC) Directorate, part of the Chief Operating Officer (COO) Group within GLD. There are five principal teams within the Directorate: Human Resources (HR), Project Delivery and Transformation, Communications, Business Management and Strategy and Governance. The Directorate advises, supports and enables GLD lawyers to help the government to govern well, within the rule of law. Our purpose is to enable GLD''s business and people strategies and support the department to be the best employer for our people. GLD''s HR team''s ambition is to build on our commitment, professionalism and expertise so that we can provide first class, customer focused HR services. We want to support all GLD staff by promoting a diverse and inclusive culture, developing inspiring and confident leaders and managers and so providing a strong foundation underpinning the delivery of legal services to HM Government.

We have an exciting and rare opportunity for an enthusiastic, committed and resilient AHRBP to join GLD HR at a time when the department has recently adopted a new Strategy and a refreshed People Strategy for 2025. The hard working, well-respected and fun HRBP Team consists of four Grade 7 HRBPs each of whom line manages one Senior Executive Officer (SEO) Associate HRBP. Each pair works in partnership giving people advice and support to one of our four Directors General (DGs), their Legal Directors and their Senior Leadership Teams. The role offers the opportunity for exposure across many Civil Service government departments as you will be supporting a range of our client based legal teams.

Responsibilities

Working in partnership with the HR Business Partner you will be providing HR related advice, leading on complex casework and aiming to build capability in management.

Working in close partnership with HR colleagues ensuring policies and procedures such as flexible working, capability management or performance management are delivered in a people-focused way and aligned with business needs.

Assisting HR Business Partners in delivering key strategic HR projects that are instrumental to improving HR services to customers.

Supporting culture change, supporting teams to engage with and through their people, for example, managing workloads and supporting staff in response to client demands or gathering recruitment information to feed into workforce planning and resourcing.

Engaging with colleagues across GLD and the wider Civil Service, to encourage partnership and collaboration in sharing best practice.

Supporting managers to build a strong culture of inclusivity.

Gathering and analysing HR data and using data-driven insights to support HR projects such as workforce planning and in support of employee life-cycle activity.

Assisting in the delivery of HR focused LandD relating to performance management, sickness absence, dispute resolution and management skills.

The successful candidate will be working with the HRBP for the Employment with Economic Recovery and UK Governance Group and the Attorney General''s Office.

Person specification and qualificationsBelow are details of the Success Profiles that make up this role. Demonstrating all the behaviours listed below is essential at either application or interview. You can read more about Success Profile here. We''ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Communicating and Influencing (Lead Behaviour)

Seeing the Bigger Picture

Working Together

Managing a Quality Service

Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, please contact us via: activecampaigns@governmentlegal.gov.uk. Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ''Please re-open my application - [insert vacancy ref] and vacancy closing date [insert date]''.

Interview and offer processIf you are invited to interview, you will be assessed on your performance in the criteria listed in the Person Specification, behaviour and strength-based questions. These criteria are:

Communicating and Influencing (Lead behaviour)

Seeing the Bigger Picture

Working Together

Managing a Quality Service

Experience

Full details of the interview format will be provided to shortlisted candidates prior to interview. The timeline later in this pack indicates the date by which decisions are expected to be made, and all shortlisted candidates will be advised of the outcome as soon as possible thereafter.

Offer, security and diversityAll candidates will be notified of the outcome as soon as possible after the interview. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview. We appoint in strict order of merit. If you meet the minimum criteria for this position but are not successful for a post, you will be placed on the reserve list. We may contact you to see if you are interested in a post at the same, or a lower grade, in GLD should one arise. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

SecuritySuccessful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.

Nationality and working for the Civil ServiceThis 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 EU Settlement Scheme; nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme; 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. Further information on nationality requirements is available.

Working for the Civil Service: The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. We run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy. Diversity and Inclusion: The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.

Essential requirements

Experience of working in a HR role

Sound knowledge of UK employment law

HR Casework experience

Technical: CIPD qualification or willingness to work towards gaining qualification within 2 years of employment. Security Clearance Level: All GLD employees must hold BPSS security clearance. If successful for this post you must hold, or be willing and able to obtain, SC level security clearance, however this can be obtained once in the role.

At Government Legal Department we have a vital, single-minded purpose: to help the Government govern well within the rule of law. This is complemented by our vision to be an outstanding legal organisation, etc. (text kept as in original where possible).

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