HR Advisor

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join Thames Valley Police as a HR Advisor. This role will be based at their Force Headquarters in Kidlington.

This will be hybrid working after training and you will be working Monday to Friday, office hours.The rate is £17.53 per hour.

This is a temporary role initially until June 2025.

The overall purpose of the role is to: Support the Leadership Team to deliver the Director of People's agenda. At a tactical level, manage functional centres of expertise, taking a lead role in supporting and advising the Business on short to medium term people related issues.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITY AREAS:

·  Support organisational development initiatives identified in the Delivery Plan and other corporate programmes. Contribute to the Force People Agenda and the target outcomes of the Directorate.

·  At a tactical level, deliver continuous improvement and innovation through enabling change, reducing bureaucracy, increased use of technology and co-production with other members of the People Directorate, the Business and partners.

·  Work with and influence managers and colleagues across the Force, using an evidence based approach to support effective decision making which produces people focused solutions.

·  Identify opportunities to build and maintain a diverse workforce to meet the changing operational demands on policing.

·  Collate and feed in ideas and observations to colleagues and the business to influence policy, process and decisions.

·  Contribute to the service delivery of contracts with external providers as appropriate.

·  Coach and build capability of managers to handle situations rather than managing issues for them.

·  Where appropriate supervise and assist in the development of people, initiating and maintaining the relationship with key stakeholders to ensure services are fully aligned with business needs.

·  Other allocated duties, including involvement in project management, change initiatives and cross force initiatives.

CRITERIA:

·  Experience with word, excel is essential, Peoplesoft desirable.

·  Any experience in an HR world would be preferable, this role will be explaining low level procedural employee relations advice and administration.

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Some experience in delivering people solutions and interventions.

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Proven ability to build effective working relationships (e.g. cross department/service programmes or projects, collaborative ventures, multi - agency working).

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Previous involvement in implementing business change initiatives linked to continuous improvement.

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Strong problem solving, communication and relationship building skills with the personal credibility to impact at all levels.

·  PLEASE NOTE DUE TO POLICE VETTING CRITERIA YOU MUST HAVE RESIDED WITHIN THE UK CONTINUOUSLY FOR AT LEAST 5 YEARS AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION. UNFORTUNATELY ANYTHING LESS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

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