HRBP

HR Business Partner - Public Sector (Permanent)

Location: West Midlands
Salary: £45,000-£55,000
Working Pattern: Hybrid - 2-3 days on-site across two key sites (both with parking)
Direct Reports: 1 x HR Advisor (Junior-level)
Function: People Team

About the Organisation

An ambitious and people-centred public sector organisation undergoing significant growth and transformation. The People Team is authentic, supportive, and forward-thinking-with a strong focus on building modern HR foundations, embedding new processes, and delivering a fair, consistent, and proactive HR service.

This is an exciting time to join as the organisation modernises its HR operations and implements new HR systems. The HRBP will play a critical role in shaping this new landscape.

Role Overview

The HR Business Partner will act as a trusted strategic partner to directorates, supporting the full HR life cycle while also leading on ER, workforce planning, service transfers, and organisational development initiatives.

This is a dynamic role suited to someone confident working at true HRBP level-not just ER-who enjoys building processes from scratch, thrives in a fast-paced and evolving environment, and sees projects through from start to finish.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Business Partnering

• Partner with senior leaders to deliver people strategies aligned with organisational goals.
• Lead on workforce planning, succession planning, and resourcing strategies.
• Provide data-driven HR insights to inform decision-making and support organisational priorities.

Employee Relations (ER) - Lead Specialist

• Act as the ER lead, managing and undertaking complex casework and investigations.
• Deliver approximately 50-60% ER-focused work, including disciplinaries, grievances, absence, performance, and safeguarding-related matters.
• Coach managers to handle ER confidently, fairly, and consistently.

Organisational Change & TUPE

• Lead and support TUPE and service transfer activities.
• Guide managers through restructures, realignments, and workforce changes.
• Ensure compliant and people-focused change processes.

HR Systems & Process Development

• Play an active role in the implementation of Cezanne and other new HR systems.
• Support with process mapping, testing, troubleshooting, and rollout.
• Build and improve policies, workflows, and HR processes as the organisation scales.

Leadership & Supervisory Responsibilities

• Line manage and develop one junior HR Advisor.
• Provide ongoing support, coaching, and development to team members and partners.
• Champion continuous improvement and a high-performing culture within the People Team.

Project Delivery

• Deliver project-based work across HR transformation, culture, engagement, wellbeing, and people operations.
• Ensure projects are delivered from initiation to completion-starter and finisher mindset essential.
• Work effectively under pressure, balancing multiple priorities while maintaining quality.

Key Requirements

Experience

• Proven experience operating at HR Business Partner level.
• Strong background in complex ER casework and leading investigations.
• Experience of TUPE and service transfers.
• Supervisory or people-management experience.
• Experience within the public sector or a similarly complex environment (desirable).
• Exposure to HR systems implementation-Cezanne experience a bonus.