Senior HR Business Partner, Judicial Office Human Resources (London / Leeds) (Ref: 20490)

Job summary

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Job description

Role title: Senior HR Business Partner, HR for the Judiciary (London/Leeds) Team/Directorate: Team: HRBP and OD&D Directorate: Judicial Office Human Resources Location: This position can be based at RCJ, London WC2A 2LL or 5, Wellington Place, Leeds, LS1 4AP. Judicial Office expectation is for minimum 60% office attendance over each quarter, with some travel to other offices and courts, subject to business requirements Overview of the role: The Judicial Office The Judicial Office (JO) reports to, and is accountable to, the Lady Chief Justice and was established in 2006 to provide support to her and to the wider judiciary following the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. In addition, we support, and are accountable to, the Senior President of Tribunals, whose responsibilities extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland. The JO is an interesting and unique place to work. Everything we do is in support of upholding the independence and impartiality of the judiciary. We work closely with His Majesties Courts & Tribunal Service (HMCTS), the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and others across Government as well as with the legal professions. Overview of Judicial HR Judicial Office Human Resources (JOHR) places Judicial Office Holders (JOH) at the centre of our service, ensuring we are visible, proactive as well as responsive, and that we collaborate with colleagues across the Judicial Office, and beyond to ensure we provide judicial office holders with excellent HR support and professional expertise. JOHR supports the senior judiciary, leadership judges, and works in partnership with HMCTS and MoJ to ensure the Lady Chief Justice and the Senior President of Tribunals have a properly resourced, visible, and accessible HR service based on the needs of the judiciary. We are not a typical HR team in that everything we do needs to meet the, often complex, needs of the judiciary who are office holders and not employees or Civil Servants. This provides us with an interesting set of HR challenges. It also provides us with unique opportunities to work with the judiciary at all levels and gives us ample opportunity to broaden our HR skills sets and use our HR and business insights to be curious and creative about doing things differently and continuously learn. The role Reporting to the G6 Head of HRBP and OD&D, this role forms part of a team of three G7 Senior HR Business Partners (SHRBP), responsible for delivery of expert, professional HRBP and OD&D support to Judicial Office Holders, including judges, non-legal members and lay magistrates across England and Wales. The Team: A cohort of HRBPs and HR Advisors, spread across England and Wales, delivers frontline HR Business Partnering support to Judicial stakeholders via a range of approaches including, but not limited to; delivering HR-focussed sessions at events, court visits to build awareness of HR policies and processes, coordinating with JOHR, HMCTS and MoJ colleagues on cross-cutting support resources, providing tailored support to Leadership Judges, including on complex pastoral matters. A HR Team Leader oversees MyHR (HR digital platform for Judicial Office Holders to access frontline HR support) and the HR Support Officers who run this system. Specifically ensuring service design meets the needs of the judiciary and stakeholders, alongside quality assurance of work. In addition to BAU HR Business Partnering services, the team also provides OD&D support on key projects, in line with business priorities and people change aspirations. Summary: As SHRBP, the post holder will be responsible for delivering a credible and expert HR service to Judicial Office Holder stakeholders, demonstrating both interest and curiosity in a regional and jurisdictional context and using this to shape the Judicial HR offer and provide potential solutions/options and their implementation. In addition to direct SHRBP support to senior stakeholders in their portfolio areas, the post holder will provide engaged and supportive leadership to a team of HRBPs and HRAs within their management line, acting as an escalation route as needed. They will lead on OD&D project work, responding to commissions as required; scoping and delivering pragmatic, people-focussed insights and recommendations based on credible data analysis, professional expertise and risk management. They will collaborate with their G7 SHRBP peers and G6 Head of unit, leading strategic and management decision-making, cross-cutting HR and wider JO activities and embedding a culture of continuous improvement. This role represents an exciting opportunity to influence the way we operate; we are seeking a motivated and proactive HR Professional to help us lead the team into the future. Responsibilities, Activities & Duties:

• Ensuring strategic delivery of key JOHR objectives, informed by LCJ and SPT priorities
• Operating as an integral member of the SHRBP cohort, demonstrating collaboration, adaptability and expertise to drive strategic thinking and workforce planning across the team, including the MyHR service.
• Providing supportive leadership, effective line management and mentoring to their team, enabling them to deliver a high-quality HR offer to our JOH stakeholders and embedding continuous improvement principles.
• Applying a proactive, innovative and flexible approach to problem solving, within a unique HR operating environment
• Acting as a trusted advisor to Leadership Judges, providing HR insight to inform the HR offer and influence HR issues.
• Working as an effective OD&D practitioner across the region and organisation, supporting effective and impactful people change.
• Working in partnership with wider JOHR teams in order to implement priority HR activities, drive awareness and embedding of HR polices and practice.
• Using HR metrics, performance and insight to identify and address HR continuous improvement opportunities. Provide data and themes analysis on service performance, whilst horizon scanning technological improvements and advancements to service
• Building and maintaining strong, influential working relationships with stakeholders, including Leadership Judges, HMCTS HR Business Partners, HMCTS operational staff, across the wider HR Function and Judicial Office colleagues.
• Working with internal and external stakeholders to improve performance of system, making changes where required
• Participating in wider Judicial Office activities and working groups
• Championing the JO Values of Purpose, Humanity, Openness and Together

Behaviours & Strengths (for Recruitment/Success Profiles): Behaviours Seeing the Big Picture Communicating and InfluencingLeadershipManaging a Quality Service Essential Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• Highly credible and technically proficient HR professional with a strong client focus and well-honed influencing skills.
• Equally confident in operating in a world of ambiguity, with an ability to understand a complex environment
• Ability to understand or quickly gain an understanding of the judiciary, identify people issues in a proactive way and communicate confidently and persuasively about solutions in the language of the judiciary, constructively challenging and providing appropriate feedback with tenacity and ethical integrity.
• Experience leading and mentoring more junior colleagues, building confidence and capability
• Ability to effectively assess people risk and mitigation, with a pragmatic approach to delivering solutions and complex change
• Experience of building strong, trust-based relationships with a range of diverse and demanding stakeholders.
• Understand the key drivers of improved employee engagement, clearly linking people activities and interventions to business priorities and outcomes.
• Experience in the use of HR metrics to provide valuable people insights and identify continuous improvement opportunities
• Knowledge of OD&D practice, approaches and methodologies that support impactful people change initiatives

Desirable Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• Experience of working with Judicial Office Holders and knowledge of the judiciary.
• Experience implementing and embedding people transformation

Qualifications: Essential: You will have completed and achieved your Chartered MCIPD (or have an equivalent HR qualification) or be willing to work towards it and actively demonstrate Continuous Professional Development. Desirable: Organisational Development and Design practitioner or People Change practitioner qualification Security clearance required: CTC Additional Information: There may be a need to attend meetings with the judiciary before or after court (before 9.30am and after 4.30pm) so there will be the need for flexibility in this regard. Our selection process ensures a comprehensive assessment of each applicant's qualifications, skills, and potential fit within our organisation. This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess Behaviours, Strengths and Experience. The selection process for this role will be: Application Stage: Sift of CV and personal statement and behaviour statement Interview Stage: Interview and presentation You must be successful at each stage to progress to the next stage. Application stageExperience: You will be asked to submit an anonymous copy of your CV and to provide a Personal Statement / Statement of Suitability in no more than 750 words. This statement should outline your relevant skills, experience, and achievements. Please provide evidence of your Experience of the following:

• Building strong, effective relationships as a HR professional to understand stakeholders’ needs and priorities
• Applying a pragmatic approach to delivering HR solutions in the face of complexity
• Building confidence and capability in others to effectively deliver a high-quality HR service

Behaviours: You will be asked to provide a 250-word statement on the following Behaviour; Seeing the Big Picture Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the Behaviour; Seeing the Big Picture Feedback will not be provided at application or short-list stages. Interview stage All applicants that progress to interview will be assessed on Behaviours, Strengths and Experience in line with Civil Service Success Profiles, as set out above. It is anticipated that interviews will take place in person at the Royal Courts of Justice and Wellington Place, Leeds in the w/c 24th and 31st August, but please note that these dates are subject to change. You will be asked to prepare and present a 5-minute presentation. The subject of this will be sent to you prior to interview. If you would like to speak with someone about the role, please contact moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk

Person specification

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Memberships

Chartered MCIPD (or equivalent / working towards) essential

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £58,511, Ministry of Justice contributes £16,950 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
• Telephone : 0345 241 5359

Recruitment team

• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitm…

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