HR Business Advisor in London

Salary: The starting salary is £48,995, which includes allowances totalling £3,009. The salary is broken down as £45,986 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £54,863. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Kilburn. This role is embedded with local leadership teams, at locations within the London Metropolitan Area with an emphasis on on-site support. However, there is some scope for hybrid working up to two days per week. We have vacancies based in Kilburn, Kingston, as well as Central London locations.

Your Key Responsibilities

• You’ll lead local HR services to improve performance across all areas.
• Collaborating with management teams, you’ll identify and implement HR solutions that will help the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) work at its very best.
• Day to day, you’ll be problem solving and applying the principles of governance, compliance, resolution and escalation to the HR service.
• You’ll also be a crucial link between HR and various internal and external stakeholders, supporting plan delivery and championing our More Trust, Less Crime, and High Standards mission.
• Operating at the hub of the team, you’ll be a point of contact for HR-related matters.
• You’ll oversee the delivery of HR initiatives that elevate people performance.
• You’ll deputise for the Senior HR Business Advisor, an opportunity to hone your leadership skills.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the business unit’s Senior HR Business Advisor and working collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team and third-party stakeholders, the role of the HR Business Advisor is to work with Local management to identify and drive HR solutions to improve operational performance and effective use of resources.

Day to day, you’ll be problem solving and applying the principles of governance, compliance, resolution and escalation to the HR service. You will also play a key role in building first line manager capability to better manage their people.

The post holder will be responsible for providing direction to managers on key people areas such as attendance, limited duties, performance, probation and change amongst others. The post holder will deputise for the Senior HR Business Advisor as needed, with authority to make delegated decisions, and be the key contact for senior stakeholders.

The post holder will draw deeply upon HR performance data to inform and direct local people performance activities. The post holder will have responsibility for ensuring adherence to the Hybrid Working policy. This includes preparation of cases for local and central panels for all local Permanent Working from Home requests.

Lead on all Complex Cases. The post holder will proactively identify cases through the use of data and local knowledge. Providing advice and input to enable the progression and resolution of complex cases and provide clear updates for Senior Leadership Teams as requested.

Lead/develop and oversee local governance of Informal Management Action (IMA) driving greater use of this tool to improve attendance. Supporting line managers to issue IMA and tracking and monitoring its application and outcomes.

Oversight of all local Recuperative Duty cases, including scrutiny, governance and case progression to reduce the number and duration of recuperative duty.

Preparation and attendance at local HR related meetings such as Attendance Management Meetings, Resource Planning Meetings, Probationary Management meetings.

Improve line management capability through local HR Clinics, drop-in sessions and delivery at Professional Development Days, other ad hoc training input as well as 121 support for line managers.

Due to the rapidly changing requirements of the client base, this job summary is not intended to be exhaustive, and the post holder will be expected to adopt a flexible attitude to changing priorities and focus, subject to the priority business needs of their client group.

Qualifications

• A credible HR professional, able to use HR knowledge, experience and excellent communication skills to build professional and supportive relationships, gaining the trust of colleagues.
• The successful candidate needs to be a HR professional i.e. CIPD qualified or studying towards the qualification/have extensive HR knowledge/experience.
• Possess a broad knowledge of HR issues and understand the linkages to wider areas of the business.
• Ability to rapidly build trust and good working relationships with internal and external partners including Staff Association representatives, third party providers, Occupational Health and HR case managers.
• Ability to learn quickly and assimilate basic policy understanding to support in advising our leaders.
• Good IT skills including Microsoft Office applications, Excel, Word and PowerPoint; able to undertake scheduling, HR meetings and collaboration in person/virtual (Teams).
• General understanding of HR Information Systems.
• Effective meeting facilitator and updating of records.
• Proven capability to work with data and provide insights from analysis (trends, hotspot, risk & issues).
• Action and delivery focused, able to seek solutions and provide succinct information summaries to support issue resolution.
• Experience of delivering exceptional service, including ensuring a positive customer experience.
• Able to review HR services from a customer perspective.
• Good organisational skills with attention to detail, and the ability to prioritise and deliver quality work within allotted timescales.

Disability Confident Statement

The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.

As a Disability Confident Leader, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.