Benefits:
Salary: £37,336 – £42,403 per annum, Grade 5
Hours: Full time – 37 hours per week
Location – Service Headquarters, Calcot, Reading
Excellent annual leave allowance of 28 days (excluding Public Holidays), flexible working hours, onsite gym, parking facilities and a Local Government Pension Scheme are available
Other information about our benefits can be found here
At Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, our teams make working here a great experience. We are passionate about employee wellbeing, development, and training. In HR, we play a vital role in helping our teams succeed, by working in partnership with the Service, to create a welcoming and inclusive culture that supports our People Strategy. We encourage our employees to work flexibly so that they can enjoy a work life balance.
The HR Adviser (Team Leader) will be a vital part of our HR team and work alongside the wider team to support the delivery of an outstanding service, both in a leadership and advisory capacity. The role will require the successful candidate to deliver efficient and effective HR transactional policy and process, as well as initiatives to improve and develop areas such as recruitment and reporting.
We are seeking a motivated and engaging individual for the position, and you will enjoy working with others, have a focused approach to work and are able to build and maintain positive and productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You’ll have experience of supporting all aspects of HR activity and be able to influence change and improvement in this field.
The key focus of this role is:
- To manage the HR transactional team and to provide HR advisory support to managers and employees
- To act as HR Adviser to support managers on HR casework such as disciplinaries and grievances
- To deliver and develop efficient cost-effective HR processes and procedures and improve the HR Service
- To undertake project work and support the development of policies, procedures and strategies in line with Organisation Direction, national strategy, legislative requirements, best practice and budgetary constraints.
The key role requirements are detailed in the Job Profile. We are seeking an individual who is CIPD qualified at level 3 or working towards level 5, has a generalist HR background, previous management of a team, and a good understanding of employment law and best practice.
Application and selection process
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Applicants will be expected to detail their knowledge, skills, and experience against the relevant Personal Specification contained within the Job Profile.
Eligible candidates wishing to apply for this role should apply through the portal, submitting a supporting statement (restricted to 1000 words) detailing how they meet the ‘person specification’ for the role as detailed at the end of the job profile.
Following shortlisting, applicants will be assessed for suitability by means of a role-based task and behavioural / competency-based interview.
Appointment is conditional upon undertaking a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Closing date for applications is 0900 on 4 March 2024.
It is anticipated that the selection assessment process will run week commencing 11 March 2024.
Please note that is your personal responsibility to check whether by applying / accepting this position it would result in any Annual Allowance implications. A breach in the Annual Allowance threshold could result in a Tax charge.
The Behavioural Competency Framework allows us to easily identify the behaviours that drive successful performance and enables us to deliver an effective service. The behaviours detailed within the job profile will be assessed throughout the selection process.
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Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service values your individuality, your diversity and your dignity. All are welcome here. Inclusion, diversity and equality are principles which guide our decisions and will be visible throughout the Service, and we will continually work to improve in these areas.
We are committed to creating an inclusive culture of dignity and trust where everyone feels safe and comfortable to bring their whole self to work.
Simply: The communities we serve are varied and diverse, we should be too.
Applications are welcome for job-share or part time arrangements please enquire on application.
All applications are considered on merit alone. We are a Disability Confident Leader – if you meet the essential criteria of the role, you will be guaranteed an interview if you choose to opt into the Disability Confident Scheme (formerly known as the Guaranteed Interview Scheme).