HR Business Partner

Hours: Full time, Part-time and flexible working options can be discussed

Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire

Hybrid working with some attendance at County Hall

About NYES HR

North Yorkshire Education Services (NYES) HR is one of a number of traded services for Education settings, within and beyond North Yorkshire. As a Service which is 100% funded by education clients opting to buy into our service, we rely on each and every member of our team to have a highly commercial and professional approach.

The world of Education is rapidly changing presenting challenge and opportunity in equal measure. We are proud to be a responsive and solution focussed service providing a high standard of professional HR Advisory support to over 400 educational settings. Our customers include maintained schools, Academies, Multi Academy Trusts and Independent Schools predominantly across the North of England with our income being 100% reliant on our customers choosing to buy into the provision. As such, our practitioners need to have excellent commercial awareness; customer service and strong relationships are key to our success.

The team sits as part of North Yorkshire Council's high performing HR and OD Service and we are very proud to have recently won the 2025 PPMA Public Sector HR and OD Team of the Year, the PPMA Gold award as well as a recent award for HR and Payroll provider of the year from Education Today.

What you will be doing

Due to the promotion of a valued member of our team to an HR Director position, we currently have an excellent opportunity for an experienced HR practitioner to join us as an HR Business Partner.

This role is truly varied, challenging and rewarding; you will act as the strategic HR partner for a portfolio of our largest Multi Academy Trusts to support them to deliver their HR priorities, often seen as an extended member of their senior management teams. Your job is to partner with them to understand their individual context, culture, terms and conditions and policies in order to ensure that they receive a tailored service relative to their organisational needs.

You need to be able to operate at a strategic level with a high level of credibility, advising CEOs, Trustees, Chief Operating Officers and other senior professionals as well as manage a complex employee relations caseload and day to day supervision of HR Advisers.

Your casework will include the most complex operational cases including safeguarding allegations, advising appeal panels and at times you will provide an expert commissioned investigatory service.

Given the highly autonomous, commercial and specialist nature of the role, we are ideally looking for an existing HRBP with public sector experience and experience of education would be advantageous. If you think you can help us to continue to make our mark and contribute to our fantastic team, then we would love to hear from you.

In return, you can expect to receive ongoing CPD from an award-winning, forward-thinking organisation and to be part of a friendly, collaborative and dedicated team.

Why Work for us?

We are a strong performing authority, with supportive political leadership and talented teams providing the platform to have a fulfilling, challenging and successful career in a stunning place.

In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier.

These include:

• a local government pension scheme with a generous employer contribution
• salary sacrifice schemes
• modern flexible working practices
• learning and development packages
• employee discount benefits including shopping and gym discounts
• green car and cycle schemes
• Health Assured - confidential help and support for your wellbeing

For full details, please see our Total Rewards Brochure.

Closing Date: 23 August 2026 .

Interviews: Likely to be held 9 September 2026 but may arranged sooner.

Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.

It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults at risk.

We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of adults at risk.

NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.