Job Title: HR Project Partner
Hours: 37
Salary: HC9 £39,513-£43,693 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: 31/07/20205
Interview date: 13/08/2025
The Role
In this HR Project Partner role, you’ll act as a trusted partner to senior managers across all services in the Council; helping them to improve staff performance and to embed our values and drive our transformational change. You’ll play a key role in supporting the delivery of a number of people related projects across the Council. On a day-to-day basis, this will see you offering expert guidance and solutions on matters related to workforce development, recruitment, retention, employee engagement and wellbeing. You’ll deliver a range of HR Projects too - providing training, facilitating focus groups, running 1:1 coaching and driving people related change and transformation.
From collaborating with trade union representatives to supporting managers and staff internally, your persuasion and influencing skills are going to be put to excellent use. You will have experience of and understand local government services but other experience in similar fields will certainly be considered. We’re looking for someone CIPD qualified with significant experience advising managers on complex employee matters, and a sound understanding of employment law and the statutory local government service environment. You should also be familiar with delivering people related projects and initiatives, assisting services to transform and drive performance through people.
This role will suit an individual who has a wealth of knowledge in HR advisory / business partnering work who has delivered a range of HR Projects.
The HR Team are a small high performing team who are key to the transformation of Herefordshire Council. This is an amazing opportunity and an exciting time to join us.
Benefits of working for Herefordshire Council:
A competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme, which includes:
- Pension Scheme Enrolment in the Local Government (LGPS)
- Generous Annual Leave: 31 days’ annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum
- Flexible working: flexi-time, job-share, part-time hours and, in some instances, home working
- Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 access to support and counselling
- Payment of professional membership fees
- Pick your perks – our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts.
We welcome applicants whatever their personal characteristics or social identity. All requests for flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered.
The following candidates will be interviewed if they meet the essential criteria for the post they are applying for:
- Those who indicate that they have a disability. This is part of our commitment to the “Disability Confident” scheme;
- Those who indicate in their supported statement that they serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, or their families. This is part of our pledge to support the Armed Forces Covenant;
- Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are a Herefordshire care leaver. This is part of our commitment to supporting young people leaving our care.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details of this role.
To apply, please submit your CV and complete the supporting statement within the application form, referring to the job description & person specification, detailing how you meet the specific requirements of the role.
The Council plan sets out how we will make our contribution to achieving a better and more successful Herefordshire, please see the link below to find out more:
Herefordshire Council Plan 2024-28