People & Culture Business Partner in Brecon

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the People & Culture team at Powys Teaching Health Board, on a fixed term basis for 24 months. Working within the People & Culture Team at Powys offers a broader range of experience than a traditional HR business partner role, working closely with senior members of the People & Culture team as well as senior members of staff across the organisation.

The post holder will work as part of the Business Partnering team to provide People and Culture advice across their respective nominated directorates and ensure a proactive, collaborative approach is in place to drive the achievement of the Health Board and Directorate objectives. This will include developing and maintaining positive working relationships with Trade Union partners.

Main duties of the job

• Understand the Health Board and its services - develop an understanding of how the Health Board operates, how it creates value, its strategic drivers and its purpose.
• Generate insight from data and evidence - using and applying evidence to support business cases, strategies and inform decision making.
• Connecting with curiosity, purpose and impact - asking the right questions, crafting networks and understanding where HR can identify opportunities to create the most value.
• Leading with integrity, consideration and challenge - having the courage and confidence to challenge thinking and actively demonstrate Health Board and profession values in their day to day work.

The People & Culture Business Partner will provide professional HR support to a number of corporate directorates as well as our hosted services. This will include providing advice in relation to:

• Organisational Change
• Workforce Planning & Resourcing considerations
• Engagement & Staff Welfare
• Employee Relations & Policy application
• Workforce performance & efficiency
• Team Development

The People and Culture team work in a hybrid way which enables home working with an expectation that the post holder is able to attend base twice a week and is flexible to meet business needs.

About us

Being the smallest Health Board in Wales means that you won't get lost in the crowd. Everybody at Powys Teaching Health Board is valued for the contribution they make to our varied and diverse portfolio of community-based services. Together, we can continue to make a real difference to our patients and build on our unrivalled reputation. As a supportive and progressive employer, we actively encourage you to carve out a career with us, through a range of development pathways. We're also lucky enough to be situated in one of the most beautiful rural counties in Britain, let alone Wales! Achieving a healthy 'life work' balance is essential, and something we recognise by prioritising your well-being.

To start your journey with us, and to learn more about what we can offer you please visit: https://pthb.nhs.wales/working-for-us/. There you will find information about our benefits and values, read staff experiences and more about what our beautiful county has to offer.

Job responsibilities

The detailed job description can be found as an attachment to this vacancy. Broadly, the main duties of the role will include:

• Providing HR advice across a range of complex employee relations matters.
• Provide coaching and support to managers and leaders to support excellence in leadership and the effective deployment of People and Culture Strategy, Policy and practice.
• Work autonomously to prioritise workload effectively across a broad portfolio with areas of competing demands.
• Ensure approaches are in place to effectively manage expectations, identify deadlines and timescales and appropriately elevate issues of potential risk.
• Maintain a clear understanding and up to date knowledge of the legal framework within which HR operates to ensure credible, consistent and robust advice is provided on complex HR matters.
• Support the Directorates in the development and monitoring of Workforce plans and alignment to the overall Health Board strategic direction.
• Lead the development of Workforce policies as required in line with current legislation and keeping abreast of modern HR procedures and best practice.
• Regularly utilise data to analyse workforce performance, issues and trends and will be required to utilise this information to form evidence-based recommendations and approaches.

This will include the requirement to utilise a variety of systems, such as Excel, ESR etc. You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

We would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers; but even if you don't speak any Welsh, or want to develop your skills, don't worry: the health board will support you with training.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Master's in human resource management (or equivalent qualification) or equivalent experience demonstrated via significant experience in a senior HR Advisor/Practitioner role.
• Demonstrable experience of providing advice to managers on complex Employee Relations matters.
• Demonstrable ability to analyse and make judgments on complex workforce issues.
• CIPD Professional Registration: MCIPD level or willingness to obtain as part of an agreed CPD objective.
• Demonstrate good knowledge of workforce planning and best practice strategies.
• In depth knowledge of employment legislation and its application in the workplace.
• Demonstrates a good understanding of the context of the NHS, its challenges and related workforce issues.
• Knowledge of equality and diversity issues, and underpinning legislation and ability to use knowledge to promote and implement best practice within employment.
• Demonstrates a good knowledge and understanding of the application of Organisational Development interventions, strategies and techniques.
• ILM L5 or equivalent in Leadership and Management / Coaching L3 award in Education and Training.

Experience

• Experience of working in a unionised environment and a commitment to working in partnership.
• Experience of handling extremely complex Employee Relations issues.
• Assessing and identifying complex workforce related issues and providing recommendations to improve or resolve issues.
• Working in a complex environment with competing demands.
• Proven ability to effectively manage and prioritise work.
• Policy development and consultation processes.
• Preparation of cases for Employment Tribunal or providing evidence.
• Managing projects.
• Psychometric profiling.

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent communication and good report writing skills.
• Sound analytical reasoning, effective decision making and an ability to identify and manage risks.
• Analyse complex employment situations where no precedent exists.
• Deal with highly complex, sensitive, distressing situations.
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence staff at all levels.
• Work with and develop effective partnerships with all key stakeholders.
• Empower, coach and support staff.
• Work on own initiative, and organise own workload effectively to prioritise conflicting workload demands.
• Challenge decisions in a constructive way.
• Some ability to speak, read and/or write Welsh, or an eagerness to learn.

Other

• Ability to travel as required for the role.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.