3,552 Jobs

The Ministry of Justice People and Capability (MoJ P&C) supports the organisation by enabling its people to be the best that they can be. We are continuously reviewing and enhancing the services that P&C provide across the MoJ to deliver high quality services for our customers. MoJ has a team of committed and capable professionals delivering people services across the Justice family.

With a passion for people management and a desire to build an HR generalist foundation for a future career, the post holder will work with managers from within HMPPS to optimise the effective working relationship and ensure maximum impact of HR on business effectiveness. This is your opportunity to be part of the HR enabling prisons and probation to make society safer and help people turn live.

The role involves a proactive approach to problem solving and enabling the business to find solutions to HR challenges. With a generalist knowledge of case management and essential functional HR experience, the role is key to enabling business leaders through interpretation of HR policy, application of case management advice and the delivery of key HR processes to maintain the links with essential systems; SSCL, Occupational Health, Civil Service Pensions etc.

Summary

As a HR professional in either a regional role or a HQ delivery role to a sector of the business, the post holder will support business leaders, managers and specialists with more complex HR cases and provide a professional link to the central case management service, working together to achieve effective outcomes.

As the first point of contact to the business, the post holder would be required to manage stakeholder expectations and gather business intelligence to provide specialist advice or deploy the appropriate service from within the team.

Responsibilities, activities and duties

Supporting an area of the business with wide ranging impact, appraising, assessing and adapting to a wide range of issues on a day-to-day basis and developing options to maintain or improve performance.

Role holder will have autonomy to make decisions within their discrete area of work to deploy appropriate resources using initiative and in communication with their established network of contacts across the wider HR community.

Interpreting HR advice which may require follow up questions or discussion to understand the wider impact of the issue.

Decisions might involve considerable discretion but will be constrained by policy and best practice.

Analysing HR data and applying understanding to decide on an appropriate intervention or course of action.

Considering sensitive or multiple opposing opinions to establish facts; establishing the best approach; determining appropriate methodologies; analysis to ensure quality and application of results.

Exercise judgement and make decisions based on their own interpretation. Details may be unclear and require further investigation.

Required to maintain relationships by supporting others, contribute to team decisions and use initiative to solve problems.

Contribute directly to the achievement of operational organisational objectives by developing internal credibility and providing guidance and consultancy to managers on HR related issues, which include:

Employment Tribunal, Grievance, Disciplinary Support

Attendance Management Support

Audit, Assurance & Compliance

Commissioner: Expert Services & Support (Internal & External)

Essential Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

Previous experience of an HR delivery role. (assessed via CV)
The ability to confidently build and manage a diverse range of relationships, including with senior stakeholders. (assessed via behaviour Managing a quality service)
Supporting others to optimise performance of their People Management Skills. (assessed via behaviour Leadership)
Excellent communication skills, both in verbal and written formats. (assessed via behaviour Communicating and Influencing)
Ability to analyse and understand data and apply analytics to business delivery. (assessed via behaviour Managing a Quality Service)

Desirable experience, knowledge and skills

Previous experience of working in a HR team within the Civil Service and an awareness of the wider Civil Service HR operating model.

Experience of HR consultancy work or other service delivery based on a Customer Relationship Model.

We may consider any evidence within the application form that demonstrates meeting the desirable criteria as set out in the job description. This will only be after essential criteria is scored and where there is a need to differentiate between closely scored candidates.

Location and travel requirements:

There are 2 roles being advertised.

One role will be supporting the Prisons in the South West region and the other, supporting Probation.

The successful candidates can choose to be based at the following locations:

HMP Leyhill, HMP Bristol, HMP Channing’s Wood, HMP The Verne, HMP Portland, HMP Erlestoke, HMP Exeter, HMYOI Guys Marsh

Bristol Magistrates Bristol,

Taunton Probation Office, Deane House, Belvedere Road, Taunton, TA1 1HE

Twyver House, Bruton Way, Gloucester

7 Madeira Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 1QL

NPS 2 WESTWEY ROAD WEYMOUTH,

NPS 63 COMMERCIAL ROAD POOLE,

NPS Bath Magistrates and County Court,

NPS PROBATION OFFICES DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL DORCHESTER

3-5 Barnfield Road, Exeter, EX1 1RD

Queensway House, The Hedges, Worle, BS22 7BB

Yeovil, 22 Hendford, Yeovil, BA20 2QD

The successful candidates will be required to travel occasionally to other prison and probation sites within the South West region.

Qualification

Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or equivalent, or willingness to work towards a qualification as part of career development.

This role may be linked to the HR Apprenticeship (Level 5) as a pathway into CIPD accreditation.

Application process:

Sift

Experience

Please submit an anonymous copy of your CV.

Behaviours

Please provide 250-word examples of how you have met each one of the behaviours listed below:

Managing a Quality Service (Lead Behavior)
Communicating and Influencing
Leadership
Working together

Please refer to the ‘essential knowledge, experience and skills’ section above which details how each of the essential criteria will be assessed.

Should we receive a large number of applications, we will sift primarily on the lead behaviour of Managing a Quality Service.

Successful applicants will then be invited to an interview, testing both behaviours and strengths.

Interview:

During the interview, we will be assessing you on the Behaviours listed above and Strengths from the Success Profiles framework.

Behaviours:

Managing a Quality Service (lead)
Communicating and Influencing
Leadership
Working together

If you have any questions regarding the role please contact

Victoria.coumbe@justice.gov.uk

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Qualifications

Please answer 'yes' to meeting the qualification requirement if you are either:

1) Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or equivalent

2) or willing to work towards a qualification as part of career development.

If you are answering yes to option 2, please upload a note indicating your willingness to work towards the qualification.

Behaviours

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

Managing a Quality Service
Communicating and Influencing
Leadership
Working Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,335, Ministry of Justice contributes £10,236 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.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

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…

https://jobs.justice.gov.uk/careers/JobDetail/20166?entityId=20166

Salary range

£35,335 - £37,847 per year