Job Title: Head of People Services
Selection Criteria
Beliefs
Essential:
- A practicing and professing Christian with a knowledge and understanding of Christian scripture.
- An active prayer life and willingness to pray for Langley and its stakeholders
- Experience of leading Christian devotions and prayer
Assessment: CV & Supporting Statement / Interview
Qualifications & Experience
Essential:
- Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management – Level 7
- Managing an HR Team in a similar sized organisation
- Developing, interpreting, and implementing HR Policies and Procedures
- Expert knowledge and understanding of employment law and how to implement into policies and procedures
- Providing advice and guidance relating to HR issues, both from a statutory and organisational perspective
- Implementing and embedding a Human Resources Information System (HRIS)
- Experience of successfully advising on complex employee relations cases
- Experience of advising on restructures, organisational change and TUPE transfers
- Managing HR projects and change programmes
- Managing HR Budgets
- Track record of building relationships with and partnering senior leaders
- Demonstrable experience of operating at a tactical / operational level
- Risk identification, reporting and management to ensure that activity is implemented to minimise risks to the Trust
- Working with an on-line recruitment system
Desirable:
- Demonstrable experience of operating at a strategic level
- Implementing a procedure that is compliant working within DPA and knowledge, planning for the future of GDPR
- Some work within the Charity / Voluntary / Third Sector
- Multi-site experience
Assessment: CV & Supporting Statement / Interview
Skills
Essential:
- An effective team leader (able to lead by example and act as a good role model for the team)
- Highly developed interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills
- Numerate and comfortable with calculating and reporting on the financial impact of HR changes (e.g., adopting the Living Wage)
- Able to communicate complex and / or sensitive / contentious information to internal and external individuals and groups, where there may be significant barriers to acceptance or understanding
- Able to maintain professional boundaries and confidences
- Good attention to detail
- Able to work as part of a team
- Able to prioritise work to deliver results when faced with tight deadlines and conflicting tasks
- Competent with Microsoft suite, in particular; Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel
- Able to coach managers and members of the HR Team, to deliver the best possible work performance
Assessment: CV & Supporting Statement / Interview
Numeracy & Literacy
Essential:
- Able to successfully pass a Level 2 Numeracy and Literacy test
Assessment: Numeracy & Literacy Test
Other
Essential:
- Able to travel throughout the UK to visit Trust locations, including those situated away from public transport links
- Full and current driving license
- Willing to undertake a DBS check which must be satisfactory to the Trust
- Able to work flexible hours, including occasional evenings, nights, and weekends, if required
- Fully supportive of equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace
Assessment: CV & Supporting Statement / Interview