HR Business Partner

Your tasks

• Provide lead HR support and professional guidance to managers and headteachers on complex casework, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence management, safeguarding, and redundancies.
• Support organizational change and service transformation programmes, including TUPE, restructures, and alternative service delivery models.
• Deliver front-line coaching and advisory support to managers to optimize employee performance, engagement, and consistent HR policy application.
• Foster effective and harmonious employee relations by working in close partnership with trade unions, ACAS, and legal representatives.
• Deliver HR workshops and surgeries to update managers and headteachers on employment legislation and policy changes.
• Attend statutory procedural meetings as the lead HR representative to guide decision-making.
• Deputise for the Principal HR Business Partner at meetings and working groups as appropriate.

Requirements

Ready to bring your HR expertise where it matters most, shaping workforce culture and driving real transformational change across local public services and schools?

Requirements & Person Specification

• Chartered CIPD qualified or equivalent demonstrable professional experience.
• Proven track record in a challenging HR environment delivering operational and casework support.
• In-depth knowledge of employment law and familiarity with Local Authority terms and conditions of employment.
• Demonstrable experience handling change management, TUPE, and positive trade union consultations.
• Strong proficiency in business administration and HR software systems.
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle, as you will be required to attend in-person meetings across Bridgend County Borough.
• Ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement.

How to apply

If you are an adaptable, strategic HR professional ready to make an immediate impact within a supportive local authority team, submit your up-to-date CV today.

Other

*Role Title: HR Business Partner · Location: Civic Offices, Bridgend (Hybrid) *Pay Rate: £21.14 per hour Contract Duration: 3 Months (with possibility of extension)

Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (No weekends)

Working Arrangement: Hybrid (On-site at Civic Offices at least once a week on Thursdays, plus travel to meetings across the Council)

Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.