Salary range: Grade 15 £57, 150 -£59,298 p.a. plus fantastic benefits
Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Location: Croydon
We are seeking two experienced and proactive HR Business Partners. One role will be the designated HRBP for our Housing Directorate. The second role will work across the council’s directorates.
These are influential partnering roles that will combine the management of complex employee relations issues with strategic workforce planning and organisational redesign. Working closely with senior leaders, you will use people insight, professional expertise and sound judgement to help services address immediate workforce challenges whilst planning for future organisational needs.
Both roles require experienced HR professionals who can quickly establish credibility, provide confident advice on complex people matters and support leaders to achieve sustainable service improvement through effective workforce interventions.
We are therefore looking for candidates who will bring:
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to make a visible impact within a large and ambitious local authority. Whilst supporting managers with immediate employee relations challenges, you will also help shape longer-term workforce solutions, influence organisational design and use people insight to improve service delivery.
You'll join a collaborative HR & OD team where your expertise, ideas and professional judgement will be valued and where you can make a meaningful contribution to the future of our workforce and services.
To view the HRBP role profile please click here.
Apply early
This vacancy may close without notice if a sufficient number of applications are received. Early application is therefore encouraged.
The Council balances its books, listens to residents, and delivers good sustainable services
Key business plan outcomes:
Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.
Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check, if the role requires one.
We provide a large number of services for local people, businesses and visitors to the borough, including services for children and adults, and environmental, cultural, sports, housing, planning and benefits services.
The borough is split into 24 electoral wards, and local elections are held every four years.
With a workforce of approximately 3,300 staff, including teachers in schools, Croydon Council is the largest employer in the borough. Spending over £900 million per year, the council makes a significant contribution to the local economy.
The council comprises three main political functions, the Executive (Leader and Cabinet), Committees, and Scrutiny.
The Leader and Cabinet are responsible and accountable for shaping policies and plans and recommending them to the council for approval. Cabinet also gives direction to departmental directors on the way services are managed and the budgets allocated to them.
Six non-executive committees take decisions relating to planning, licensing, standards of behaviour and conduct for members and officers, staffing issues, tenders, property transactions, liaison with local utility companies and internal audit.
Scrutiny holds the council executive functions to account. Examining aspects of council performance, the Overview and Scrutiny Committee also increasingly involves other local agencies which contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the local population.
