Strategic Workforce Partner

Strategic Workforce Partner, up to £77k pa dependent on experience, plus a full range of benefits, hybrid working - Truro office.

The Organisation

This is an opportunity to join a large, complex public sector organisation in Cornwall with a strong commitment to its people. The organisation is value-led, ambitious and focused on continuous improvement, innovation and creating positive outcomes for those it serves. This post sits in the People & Organisational Development function, which is at the heart of shaping organisational success, ensuring the workforce is equipped, engaged and supported to deliver strategic priorities.

This role offers the chance to influence decision-making at the highest levels while contributing to a culture that values collaboration, inclusion, wellbeing and leadership excellence.

The Role

This Strategic Workforce Partner is a pivotal position. In this post, you'll be responsible for the delivery of excellence in people matters across the organisation. You be a senior HR and OD trusted advisor, working strategically with leadership teams to ensure workforce plans and people strategies align with organisational objectives. Key aims include:

Workforce Planning:
Forecasting future workforce needs, addressing skills gaps, and aligning staffing with service priorities. Ensuring workforce priorities (e.g., resourcing, engagement, development) are integrated into the strategic objectives.
Organisational Development:
Designing structures, roles, and processes to improve efficiency and service delivery.
Talent Management:
Developing succession plans, leadership pipelines, and staff development programmes.
Employee Engagement & Well-being:
Implementing initiatives to improve staff experience, mental health support, and inclusion.
Change Management:
Leading organisational change projects and supporting managers through transformation.
Policy & Compliance:
Advising on employment law, handling complex employee relations cases, and ensuring best practice.
Data Analysis:
Using workforce metrics (e.g., turnover, absence rates) to inform decisions and improvement plans, evidence based.
Leader, mentor and coach, influencing culture and behaviours. Develops and maintains effective working relationships with other managers across the function and across the organisation, working collaboratively to provide the people of the organisation with support, guidance and development. What You'll Need to Succeed

Proven track record working with senior leadership - setting the long and short-term objectives, creating strategies and overall goals for your service managers to clearly define and deliver.
Strong HR & OD knowledge and experience - ideally, you are CIPD qualified.
Ideally, you have gained experience in a more senior role within a large, complex organisation.
Expertise in workforce planning, organisational development, change management, embedding required culture and behaviours as well as employee relations.
Proven experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading strategic projects wtih strong analytical, coaching and leadership capabilities.
Experience ensuring proper financial and governance controls are adhered to and using such controls.
Experience leading complex projects which will require co-ordination with other departments and senior managers

What You'll Receive in Return

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape workforce and organisational strategy at a senior level. In addition, an impactful career opportunity, my client offers a competitive salary up to £77k pa plus a full range of benefits including all the below - making it an employer of choice!

Pay, Pension &

Financial Benefits:

Competitive salary and generous public sector pension scheme - highly regarded pension
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service and potential relocation packages for some roles
Salary sacrifice schemes (e.g. cars, bikes) and staff discounts (retail, travel, etc.)Leave & Work-Life Balance:

Generous annual leave and ability to buy or sell extra annual leave
Flexible working options (part-time, remote, flexible shifts depending on role)
Structured policies supporting work-life balance
Family &…