People Partner

People Partner x 2
Band F Swindon Newport Stockton-on-Tees / Hybrid
12 month Fixed Term Contract

Its an exciting time to join UKSBS as we transform our business to be the leading UK public sector business service provider. We aim to become a very different organisation over the next few years as we move to a modern multi-platform digitally enabled organisation.

About the People Transformation Team
The People team plays a critical role in enabling UKSBS to deliver its strategic ambitions. We support the organisation through largescale change ensuring our people structures and capabilities are aligned to future needs. This includes driving workforce planning organisational design skills and talent strategies and embedding inclusive engaging ways of working.

About the Role
This role sits within the People Team reporting to the People Transformation Lead and working closely with the HR Director to lead the people workstreams within our transformation programme.

As People Partner you will be responsible for both the strategic and tactical delivery of people transformation activity. You will translate highlevel transformation objectives into clear deliverable packages of work acting as a specialist lead across workforce planning organisational design and skills and talent initiatives. You will also operate as a trusted advisor to senior leaders providing evidencebased insight to support effective decisionmaking and sustainable change.

A key part of the role is ensuring that transformation activity once implemented is fully embedded into the People Teams core processes and ways of working. Equally critical is the active role you will play in building and sustaining long terms capability within the People Team equipping colleagues with the knowledge tools and confidence to own and evolved this work beyond the life of the programme.

The duties of this role include but are not limited to the following:

• Working with the People Transformation Lead to translate strategic transformation objectives into clear actionable programmes of work
• Leading specific workstreams within the transformation programme acting as the specialist lead across workforce planning organisational design and skills and talent initiatives
• Supporting organisational design activity including the move towards a skillsbased organisation through effective job architecture skills assessment and talent management approaches
• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders delivering insight and evidencebased recommendations to support transformation outcomes
• Working closely with the People Team to ensure transformed ways of working are embedded into businessasusual activity
• Championing employee engagement inclusion and wellbeing across all people initiatives
• Partnering with the HR Director and People Transformation Lead to identify opportunities for continuous improvement in People service delivery
• Ensuring HR policies processes and practices remain legally compliant ethical efficient and fit for purpose during periods of change
• Monitoring and evaluating the impact of transformation initiatives on organisational performance and employee experience escalating risks and opportunities as appropriate
  

To do the role well you will need to demonstrate the following:

• A comprehensive understanding of employment law HR best practice and case management
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels
• Proven experience of delivering complex people initiatives within a transformation or change environment
• Experience of workforce planning organisational design and skills or talent development activity
• A strong commitment to diversity inclusion and employee wellbeing
• The ability to act as a role model for organisational values demonstrating professionalism trust and integrity
  

For additional information and a confidential discussion please contact our Recruitment Team on

We are an inclusive and Disability Confident employer and welcome all applications. Find out more about our equality diversity and inclusion commitments on our website.

Successful candidates may be required to undergo Security Clearance (National Security Vetting) as part of their employment. To meet these standards applicants must normally have lived in the UK for at least the last five years and be able to satisfy background identity and criminal record checks.

UKSBS does not hold a Home Office Sponsor Licence under the UK Immigration System therefore candidates are required to have eligibility to live and work in the UK prior to applying.

We look forward to hearing from you.

We are UKSBS. We are creating a place where people love to work a culture where we lead we change we deliver and we empower our people to be curious take action and add value.