Assistant HR Business Partner

Posted 06 August 2025
Salary 34.7
LocationSwindon SN1 United Kingdom
Job type Contract
Sector Human Resources
ReferenceOR10960

Job description

3-month contract with a local authority

Job Purpose
The role will provide HR support and assistance to the HR Operations team, offering advice and guidance to managers and staff. The role holder will build effective working relationships with managers to influence and support them in achieving local and corporate objectives.

Key Duties/Accountabilities
  • Provide advice and guidance to managers and staff on Council policies, terms and conditions of employment, and other HR-related issues in accordance with employment legislation.
  • Support, coach, challenge, and empower Directorate line managers in managing people issues such as disciplinary and grievance procedures.
  • Engage with local trade union representatives on individual cases or local collective issues, and build and maintain positive relationships with line managers, employees, and TU representatives.
  • Screen all vacancies, identify potential redeployment opportunities for employees, and assist in matching them to suitable alternative jobs across the Council.
  • Undertake effective job evaluations, ensuring fair, consistent, and objective assessment.
  • Provide insight from people data to senior Directorate stakeholders, such as sickness reporting and grievance numbers.
  • Update the casework database accurately and in a timely fashion, and provide essential HR data for monitoring purposes.
  • Find solutions to problems relating to strategic, policy, or legal constraints or requirements.
Essential Experience Required
  • Significant experience in casework management, including disciplinary, grievance, attendance and well-being, conduct, and performance.
  • Up-to-date knowledge of employment law and practical application on case management, with the ability to apply and implement process and policy change.
Essential Qualification Required
  • CIPD qualified, or working towards this, with experience of working effectively in a complex organisation.
Additional Information
  • Working Hours: 37 hours per week
  • Location: Civic Campus, Euclid Street, Swindon, SN1 2JG, United Kingdom
  • Hybrid Working: The successful candidate will be required in the office 2 days per week, and on-site for other meetings.
  • Closing Date: 14th Aug 2025


Requirements

Requirements
  • Significant experience in casework management
  • Up-to-date knowledge of employment law
  • CIPD qualified or working towards this
  • Experience of working effectively in a complex organisation