HR Consultant - Hammersmith, United Kingdom - Hammersmith & Fulham Council

Hammersmith & Fulham Council
Hammersmith & Fulham Council
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Hammersmith, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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The H&F Schools Human Resources team has a great reputation, and we are passionate about delivering HR solutions to schools across the borough and West London.

The schools HR team run a commercially traded service and every school that buys our specialist services has a named HR Consultant who develops a close relationship with their client schools and provides a bespoke HR service.


  • We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic HR Consultant with great customer service skills to be the first point of contact in the inhouse HR team for allocated client schools within a team setting.
  • You will work closely and flexibly with school leaders to ensure that difficult HR issues are addressed promptly, effectively and sensitively, freeing their time to focus on the demands of running their schools.
- will provide a professional, responsive, high-quality business-focused HR service to our customers (schools) in a consultancy style, helping them to achieve HR solutions that are also in line with policy and process.
- be an excellent team player who can work collaboratively with the schools HR team and other colleagues in finance, safeguarding, legal and occupational health, to deliver a service that meets the needs of our schools.
- understand the importance of delivering excellent customer service within a commercially traded team.
- be able to build successful relationships of trust with school leaders.
- have excellent communication skills and the ability to convey information to managers on request in an appropriate format.
- be able to use systems effectively, entering, retrieving and collating data as instructed from relevant sources.

  • You will be an active member of the wider HR team and function, contributing to corporate HR duties as appropriate.


You will report to a Schools HR Business Partner, and you will work in close partnership with the team to ensure a joined-up service to schools.

This is a 36 hour per week fixed term role.


Role Responsibilities:


You will need to:

  • Develop key projects within schools HR, through a consultancy approach with clients.
  • Develop a plan to address people management issues in your schools, agreed with clients and your Business Partner.
  • This plan will have measurable milestones for the identification and design of interventions for improvements.
  • Provide advice, guidance, and options within your allocation of schools.
  • Deliver key projects and learning events for improving the effectiveness of services through improving people management practice, including management, organisational design, change management and continuous improvement.
Please refer to the
Role Profile for more information.


People Values:

How we act defines who we are. At the heart of our organisation is a common approach to defining 'who we are'. We are looking for people who can build this into everything they do.


We are fair
We treat everyone with compassion, dignity and fairness. We value the views and opinion of others, and promote benefits and opportunities for all.


We are caring
We care about our borough and doing things well. We focus on standards and continuous improvement; learning from our mistakes and celebrating success.


We are collaborators
We work together for a better society. We work with our residents, businesses, schools, third sector and others for better outcomes for everyone.


We are driven
We will only settle for the very best. We seek to continually improve and put our residents, customers and businesses at the heart of everything we do.


Recruiting for Attitude:

Your skills and ability are important however, we recruit as much for attitude as we do experience.

We are looking for people who have the following attributes:


Complex problem-solving
The ability to work within a complex system and find simple solutions and outcomes that deliver real change.


Critical thinking
The ability to challenge the norms through evidence-based approaches using both numerical and critical reasoning and thinking. You can rationalise decision-making and form views quickly and soundly from a range of sources.


Creativity

People management
You can get the best out of people. You have a coaching-style and drive through a commitment to personal and professional development. You are clear in your expectations and have exceptional feedback from your team about their working environment. You recognise and support people as individuals.


Coordinating with others
You have the knack of working well with others.

You have an appreciation of your own presence and approach and can demonstrate how you have developed and continue to develop how you work with others.

You can also recognise how others work, think, and feel to get the most out of collaboration.


Emotional intelligence

Judgement and decision making

Negotiation
You can demonstrate an understanding of the range of skills and techniques required to successfully negot
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