HR Business Partner

SALARY:52870.69 per annum

HOURS:37.5 hours per week Monday Friday 0900-1700

LOCATION:Albert Road Depot with flexibility to work from home & other BWC locations

HR Business Partner

About Bristol Waste Company:

What we do is important were here to keep Bristol and beyond clean and safe.

We do this for our citys residents workers visitors and businesses. Our work helps deliver Bristols sustainability targets in partnership with the council.

Bristol Wastes commercial operation where we serve businesses and organisations across the region is also growing.

Our ambition is to provide good quality value for money services and we continue to deliver a social value impact worth more than 20 million every year.

We want people who share our values and want to work with us to drive our business forward.

Were looking for an HR Business Partner whos energised by solving real business challenges through people. Someone who blends insight with influence who can turn data into action and whos ready to partner with leaders to create a workplace where people do their best work.

What youll lead

• Evidencebased people solutions: Youll use data insight and curiosity to diagnose challenges spot opportunities and design people strategies that genuinely move the dial.
• Operational performance: Youll drive improvements in attendance and wellbeing partnering with leaders to embed proactive sustainable approaches to absence management.
• Engagement and retention: Youll turn feedback into action building engagement plans that strengthen culture boost retention and create a workplace people want to stay and grow in.
• Organisational change: Youll guide leaders through complex change including TUPE restructures and transformation programmes ensuring clarity compliance and compassion at every step.
• Employee relations: Youll take the lead on complex ER cases and provide expert oversight to ensure fair consistent and valuesled outcomes.

Youll be a confident partner who can challenge coach and influence. Youll be comfortable navigating complexity balancing strategic thinking with handson delivery and shaping solutions that work in practice not just on paper.

Purpose of the role:

To work proactively in partnership with organisation leaders implementing HR strategies ensuring the smooth operation of the HR Service Delivery Team providing strong leadership in delivering cultural values and best practice throughout the organisation.

The role requires the HRBP to provide expertise advice and support in all generalist HR matters guiding managers and their teams and providing professional practical solutions to issues raised in line with policy and prevailing statutory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

With an obvious passion for working with people the HRBP is responsible for the consistent delivery of key performance indicators (KPIs) within their designated area of the organisation.

More specifically the role of the HRBP includes:

• Working with the Recruitment Team and other HRBPs to support the smooth day to day operation of the organisation in line with business planning.
• Providing professional expert advice and guidance to managers and their teams on a wide range of employment matters with the aim of reducing risks maintaining cultural harmony and maximizing organisational performance.
• Delivering HR strategies on time and in line with organisation requirements budgets and other constraints.
• Contributing to and delivering key HR initiatives across the HR spectrum including workforce planning talent attraction restructuring resourcing talent management pay and reward employee relations employee engagement and performance management.
• Providing clear timely and accurate information relating to KPIs and other reportable information.
• Providing detailed and relevant analysis of key data relating to HR metrics and benchmarking activity to ensure that HR reporting is accurate and effective.
• Maintaining a clear understanding and providing up to date knowledge of the legal framework within which HR operates contributing to HR policy making in line with current legislation and keeping abreast of modern HR procedures and best practice.
• Commissioning services projects or activity that supports the delivery of HR and departmental strategies and objectives; working with third party providers to ensure that services meet business needs and are delivered to agreed standards and timescales.
• Ensuring the smooth running of working groups to facilitate the delivery of HR policies projects and initiatives.
• Supporting and contributing to the development and implementation of Bristol Waste Companys pay and reward strategies providing active support with pay negotiations preparing relevant pay and benefits benchmarking analysis and other relevant processes associated with delivering the organisations pay and reward strategies.
• Developing and maintaining good relations with representative employee bodies such as Trade Unions.
• Working collaboratively with other HRBPs to drive overall organisational performance and deputise for them when on leave.
• Supporting the People Director as required.

Our Benefits:

• Annual leave package of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays.
• Employer contribution of 5% into the company pension scheme.
• Support for Mental Health including a BUPA Employee Assistance Programme that provides support covering Mental Health Financial and Family related topics. We also have Mental Health First Aiders across the business.
• Support for your Physical Health with our BUPA Health Cash Plan (we cover the cost of coverage for you) Cycle to Work scheme and an onsite Physiotherapist. All are free for our colleagues.
• All colleagues receive free access to our Reward Gateway discount scheme helping you make your money go further with savings at over 900 retailers. Its one of the ways we support smart spending and everyday wellbeing.
• Because we value our colleagues we want to recruit more employees just like them which is why we have our employee referral scheme.
• Dedicated learning and development team. We take pride in developing our colleagues and some examples of this include our In-House Driver Development Programme and internal promotions. Many of our Senior Leadership Team have developed from Operational roles such as one of our Contract Managers who started as a Street Cleanser.
• Employee recognition Stand Out Award and long service awards. To celebrate our colleagues wherever they are on their journey with us we recognise and celebrate talent.
• We recognise that everyone is different and strive to create an environment that supports all colleagues through flexible working. We have introduced a hybrid working model where possible and actively encourage part-time working job sharing and flexibility on hours. If this interests you please do get in touch and we can start a conversation.

Everyone belongs:

At Bristol Waste everyone belongs we are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation.

We give fair and equal consideration to all applications.

We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages genders ethnicities nationalities disabilities religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence.

Important note on applying:

• Please apply as soon as possible and before 23:59 on the closing date. Sometimes we close vacancies early if we receive a high number of quality applications.
• Due to the high volume of interest we wont be able to receive late applications and we are currently unable to respond to all who apply.
• If you havent heard from us within three weeks of the closing date it unfortunately means you wont be invited to interview on this occasion.

Contact us:

Please contact our People Services team to discuss this role your application or any reasonable adjustments and support in applying for this position:

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Thank you for your interest in joining Bristol Waste Company.