Head of HR

Head of HR, CIPD, Public Sector, Human Resources

Spring Technology are looking for a Head of HR for our local authority client based in Sandbach.

The candidate will be CIPD qualified (ideally fellowship) and already operating in a similar HR leadership role within a large complex organisation. You will have experience of leading on reward, organisation design, resourcing, performance management, cultural change and leadership and management development.

You will be a strategic thinker but with a pragmatic approach to achieving business goals. You will have a high energy, proactive style, tenacity, determination to succeed and resilience. You will be a confident relationship builder with a proven ability to influence and negotiate at the most senior levels of the organisation, with elected members, trade unions and partner organisations.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with the drive, high standards and strong business acumen to make large scale change happen quickly and effectively.

Principal Responsibilities:
- To contribute actively to the effective functioning of a network with peers, for mutual development and support, to derive shared solutions to complex aspects of service design and delivery, and to make recommendations to the Corporate Management Team on these where appropriate.
- To articulate, champion and develop the Council's operating model and principles, driving efficiency and continuous improvement, to provide real value-for-money for local people.
- To ensure consistently high levels of customer satisfaction, including designing and putting in place an effective framework to capture measure and report on this on a regular basis.
- To support, encourage and enable collaborative multiple accountability and multi agency working, in partnership with a wide range of other service providers, to deliver outcomes for local people efficiently and effectively.
- To create, foster and maintain a safe and healthy working environment, which encourages commerciality, creative thinking, innovative practice and acceptable well managed risk taking by all staff, and which seeks actively to provide added 'public value' from limited resources.
- To design, document, implement and maintain service structures, methods of delivery, operating procedures and 'rules of engagement' which define the requiredbehaviours and best practice of frontline staff, and to ensure that agreed standards are met consistently in meeting the needs of local people.

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Head of HR, CIPD, Public Sector, Human Resources

Spring Technology is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Spring Technology is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.