The role
With its young population its vibrant, energetic feel, Southwark is a very attractive place to work if you relish the challenges of a dynamic and inner city context where complexity, change and energy are high; it’s a borough with effective and dynamic leadership – all the preconditions to achieve can be found here.
We can offer an ambitious HR professional a career-shaping opportunity which is second to none. This new role will require absolute commitment and energy; it will provide you with an opportunity to play an integral part in delivering key elements of our workforce strategy, with organisational and cultural change that we believe will help us to achieve a Fairer Future for our residents.
We are looking for an experienced HR professional who is a completer finisher, with an impressive track record gained in leading on excellent HR customer service and managing a transactional team ensuring best practices are applied to the processing of all transactions and basic advice for general basic employee relations, changes to pay, terms and conditions of service and recruitment administration. You’ll have the credibility and confidence together with a detailed use of HR systems and databases, team management within a complex organisation, combined with the ability to lead a first class customer orientated service.
You will lead a small and dedicated team to improve and develop the HR transactional function and processes. Being the first point of contact for our customers, supporting managers in all aspects of frontline HR advice and process, with involvement in and responsibility for developing the whole service, maximising the use of technological solutions to enhance the HR offer.
To apply for this position please
Send a comprehensive up to date CV including the names of two referees. Please note that referees will only be contacted with your permission.
Send a detailed supporting statement (no longer than 4 pages) that fully addresses the required knowledge skills and criteria.
Recruitment timetable
Advert end date: Monday 11 March 2019
Interview and assessments : Thursday 22 March 2019
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