HR Partner – Staff Officer BT

We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join our client, based in Belfast as a full-time HR Partner. This is a long-term temporary opportunity.

Our client is Northern Ireland’s Leading Public Sector Employer.

Administrator Pay Rate: £19.59 per hour

Start Date: 27th Feb

Benefits working with NICS:

• On the job training provided
• Long term opportunity
• Gain valuable skills and progress your career
• Diverse and inclusive employer with active social mobility policies

Hours of Work:

• Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Job Duties:

The purpose of the role is to lead on the work of the embedded NI Prisons Resourcing Team, by working in partnership with the NIPS to deliver on their key business objectives, such external recruitment for uniformed grade staff.

The main duties of this post are as follows:

• Management & oversight of NIPS Uniformed Grade Volume External Recruitment Competitions (in conjunction with HR Connect);
• Management & oversight of NIPS Uniformed Grade External Recruitment Live Assessment Centres in conjunction with NI Prison Service College colleagues;
• Management & oversight of all NIPS Uniformed Grade Internal Promotion Competitions and “at grade” opportunities;
• Lead and manage the NIPS Career Progression Initiative – to include lateral transfers, downgrading requests and progression to higher grade level as well as management oversight of the assessments required for progression and change of role;
• Manage & co-ordinate NIPS Internal Uniformed Grade Transfers (staff requests to transfer between prison establishments) and all new recruit postings;
• Assistance with the on-going redesign of the NIPS internal promotion processes;
• Manage, oversee and quality assure the sourcing, collation and provision of statistics/management information on supply position/competition stages for internal promotion and external recruitment competitions (for Senior HR Business Partner Grade 7 and senior management within NIPS);
• Work with the Resourcing Team to provide draft responses to all queries received relating to NIPS uniformed grade recruitment, promotion and transfer;
• Offer advice and guidance to managers within NIPS on all resourcing matters;
• Engagement/close working with internal and external colleagues such as NICS HR colleagues (OHS, Resourcing, Employee Relations), HR Connect, Online Test Providers, Advertising Agencies and NIPS Trade Union Side as required;
• FOIs/SARs/AQWs – To manage information in line with the Data Protection requirements and oversee the sourcing of information required and prepare/quality assure draft responses for FOIs, Subject Access Requests and Correspondence Cases for final sign off by senior management;
• Exit Interviews – to manage the facilitation of exit interviews for all uniformed grade staff who resign from NIPS including collating responses and presenting these to NIPS on a quarterly basis.
• Line Management responsibility – Absence & Performance Management.

The above is not an exhaustive list and the post holder may be required to carry out other duties as directed by their manager to meet business need.
Please note that very occasional attendance at Prison establishments may be required.

Staff Officer – a degree with a minimum of 12 months’ experience.

• At least 1 years’ HR Resourcing experience (in job duties listed above and particularly experience in running external recruitment& running internal promotion competitions);
• Experience of providing advice and guidance to managers and staff on resourcing and recruitment in line with NICS HR policy;
• An ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of internal and external contacts and stakeholders. Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills are crucial;
• Well-developed planning, organisational skills, and the ability to co-ordinate resources in a busy team.

An Access NI will be required for this role

• A criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining a position.
• The UK Recruitment Co. Ltd has policies on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders and the Secure Handling, Use, Storage, and Retention of Disclosure Information, copies of which can be made available upon request.