Syp - People Partnering And Wellbeing Assistant

Role: People Partnering and Wellbeing Assistant

Department: People and Organisational Development

Location: Carbrook

Salary: £26,487 - £29,085

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Temporary for 6 months (with possibility of an extension)

South Yorkshire Police is currently looking to recruit a People Assistant to work within the People and Organisational Development Department.

Role Purpose:

This role sits in the advisory team within the PPW function and is essential to providing first line advice to employees and managers across the organisation. You will provide an excellent customer service whilst ensuring that our advice reflects an empowering ethos and risk-based approach. You will think of the wider picture and Force’s overall plan on a page tailor your advice to ensure that all possibilities and options have been considered. You will process People transactional services from start to finish and ensure that they are completed accurately and timely whilst keeping customers up to date.

Key Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate will be familiar with working in a multi-site organisation and building stakeholder relationships across large organisations. You will:

• Provide first line advice and guidance to line managers and staff in relation to employee relations queries.
• Manage the full and half sickness absence pay processing.
• Develop and produce reports for the People Partnering team with assistance from POD business analysts.
• Perform transactional services such as maternity leave, career break and PSD investigation queries etc.
• Drafting letters such as grievance, change, absence, capability and offer of employment and contracts.
• Ensure people information systems are accurately maintained.
• Engage with wider force and conducting face to face visits with managers.
• Develop and maintain letter templates and guidance for policies.
• Diary management of the People Partnering team.

The role will work on an agile approach, being able to work effectively both virtually and with colleagues across our sites.  The position will be Force wide covering areas across South Yorkshire therefore individuals must be flexible and be able to travel across sites as required.

If this opportunity excites you and you want to be part of a team who are committed to showing the difference that excellent people management and development can make to the front-line public services, we want to hear from you.

Skills and experience:

The successful candidate will therefore have previous experience of working in a generalist HR function and will be educated to CIPD level 3 or hold an equivalent qualification. The individual will have the ability to use their own initiative and have an understanding of the importance of a customer centric approach.

Knowledge of basic employment law, how to apply it and ability to demonstrate it via the application is required.

For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position, please refer to the attached role profile.

South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values:

Please find attached information sheet on South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values. The force has a particular focus on three areas, Fairness, Integrity, and Trust. Under each of these three headings there are key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.

Smarter ways of Working:

South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables SYP to provide an outstanding service to the community.

There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid.

This role has been evaluated as a Hybrid role.

Hybrid: Applicable when the work can be undertaken at any location, whether that be a SYP building or from home.

Closing Date: Monday 22 January 2024 at 23:55

Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made with the Line Manager for the role in conjunction with People and Organisational Development.

Contact point for applicants:

For further information about the role, please contact Rachael Johnson on 07775 031636.  Please do not contact the numbers for an application form.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Expressions of interest are particularly welcome from female and ethnic minority candidates.

It is really important to us that the department represents the community we serve, in order for us to provide the best service, utilising a range of backgrounds, experience and skills. We support and value all officers and staff and the unique experiences they bring to the role. We strongly encourage and welcome expressions of interest from these valuable underrepresented groups.

If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on positiveaction@southyorks.pnn.police.uk

In addition, we will look to support anyone who requires Part Time/Job share working hours.

Note to candidates:

Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage and before appointment, the relevant internal or external pre-employment checks are required. These include references, medical clearance, vetting clearance or review and sickness absence criteria check.

Apply for the role:

To apply for the role, please click the ‘Apply’ button.

Internal Candidates:

This vacancy is temporary therefore, you must have the support of your current Line Manager to apply. If you are a permanent member of staff, this would be classed as a secondment opportunity. If you are on a fixed term contract, you must contact the Talent Acquisition Team before applying.  Please ensure that you and your current line manager complete the attached consent form.  Please email the completed form to the hiring line manager, with the role title and the closing date stated in the subject of your email.

Without support, your application will not be considered any further.