HR and OD Business Partner Front Facing Team

The HR & OD Front Facing team delivers professional, enabling support across the full breadth of HR and OD activity. As HR & OD Business Partner, you'll play a key leadership role in delivering a modern, integrated HR & OD service. You'll oversee and lead a team of HR Operational and OD colleagues. You'll be instrumental in bringing together HR & OD, strengthening people management capability and driving continuous improvement. The role will also support the development and implementation of a new HR & OD single point of access, ensuring a consistent, accessible and customer focused experience.

You're an experienced HR & OD professional with strong people leadership skills and a passion for improving how services are delivered. You'll have credibility advising on complex employee relations and organisational change, alongside experience of delivering organisational development programmes of work. Collaborative and confident, you're comfortable influencing across all levels and working in fast paced environments. You're motivated by continuous improvement, inclusion and using insight to enhance practice. A relevant professional qualification or equivalent experience is essential.

Wigan Council has been voted 'Overall Council of the Year' at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

The Progress with Unity plan is a place movement for change for the next decade, bringing a new era for Wigan Borough. It draws on the strengths of our individual organisations, recognising that together we can achieve much more for our communities by delivering on our 2 place missions; create fair opportunities for all children, families, residents and businesses and make our towns and neighbourhoods flourish for those who live and work in them.

You will play a key role in delivering the Council's Progress with Unity vision and strategic priorities, working closely with the Service Lead (HR & OD), and Business Manager (Front Facing Team) and colleagues from across HR & OD to provide a high quality, modern and customer centred HR & OD service.