Strategic HR Business Partner

Role: Senior HR Business Partner

Sector: Civil Service

Contract: Fixed term contract until December 2026

Location: Liverpool – Hybrid, 2 days on site per week

Salary: Up to £550 per day depending on experience

Sellick Partnership are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join our public sector client on a fixed term contract for 12 months. This role is offered on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days a week onsite, in Liverpool.

The Senior HR Business Partner will act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, aligning people strategy with business goals to drive performance, capability, and cultural transformation. You will influence, coach, and challenge leaders to think differently, ensuring we attract, engage, and retain exceptional talent while fostering a high‑performing, future‑ready workforce.

• Partnering with senior leaders to design and deliver a people strategy aligned with organisational goals and future capabilities.
• Leading organisational design initiatives, ensuring structures, roles, and processes are optimised for agility, efficiency, and growth.
• Acting as a strategic advisor, providing insight and challenge on leadership and cultural development.
• Serving as the strategic partner for strategic workforce planning and organisational design for your business area, working with senior leaders to translate business strategy into a future looking workforce plan (headcount, skills gaps, leadership pipelines) and a target operating model; facilitate organisation design activities (role profiling, job architecture, redesigns) and support governance, risk management and performance reporting to senior leadership.
• Using people analytics and external trends to inform decision‑making and measure the impact of HR initiatives.
• Championing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), embedding inclusive practices across all stages of the employee lifecycle.
• Leading change management initiatives, ensuring leaders and teams are supported to adapt, grow, and thrive.
• Supporting business leaders in the shaping of talent management strategies including succession planning, leadership development, and career pathways.
• Supporting business leaders to drive employee engagement by co‑creating initiatives that empower, inspire, and retain talent.
• Collaborating with Recruitment, Learning & Development & Reward to deliver integrated and future‑focused people solutions.
• Acting as a coach to leaders, building capability in areas such as performance leadership, wellbeing, and agile ways of working.
• Ensuring compliance with employment legislation while driving progressive, people‑centric policies and practices.

• CIPD Level 7 qualified or equivalent, or qualified by experience.
• Proven experience as an HR Business Partner or Senior HR professional in a complex, dynamic organisation.
• Experience in shaping and executing people strategies that drive business outcomes.
• Experience in influencing and challenging at executive level with credibility and confidence.
• Experience in performance management, workforce planning, talent management, and organisational development.
• Experience and understanding of using HR analytics to provide insights and inform strategy.

Our client is hoping to have the Senior HR Business Partner in the role as soon as possible, therefore if you believe your experience meets the criteria above, please contact Charlotte Broomfield by Monday 2nd February by calling the Derby office for Sellick Partnership or by submitted your CV directly.

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