We have an excitingopportunity for a full-time**,** permanent HR Business Partner position to join our team based in London. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £55,300 per annum with benefits subject to skills and experience.
The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.
The HR Business Partner role:
The primary focus of the role is to enable and support managers in managing their staff. Acting as a key partner they will champion the Crick's Discovery without Boundaries strategy and will assist with the design and development of focused people solutions. You will need to have experience as an HR/People Partner and embody our values: Bold, Open, Collegial
Responsibilities of our HR Business Partner:
These include but are not limited to:
- Building strong collaborative relationships with senior scientists and operational leads
- Acting as a performance coach and sounding board to senior managers
- Providing advice on high risk/complex employee relations matters
- Effectively leading, developing, motivating and performance managing the People Advisor
- Working with OD on specific departmental strategic and cultural change programmes and organisation design initiatives
- Supporting the design and delivery of training for managers
- HR lead for senior recruitment activity
- Leading the focus on talent management in collaboration with the Learning & Development team utilising the Crick's talent processes
- Driving forward HR strategies, achievements of goals and promotion of initiatives to deliver against HR's strategic agenda.
- Managing headcount and resource planning processes
What we're looking for in our HR Business Partner:
The post holder should embody and demonstrate our core Crick values: Bold, Imaginative, Open, Dynamic and Collegial, in addition to the following:
- Experience of working as an HR generalist at Business Partner level, capable and willing to operate at all levels, from senior managers and complex people problems through the range of HR activities
- A solid knowledge of good HR practice/employment law and experience of brokering its translation into innovative and effective practical solutions in a large complex organization
- Highly pragmatic, flexible and adaptable with an ability to tailor approach to meet contrasting needs and demands
- The ability to draw insights from data and apply solutions to drive change for both individual departments and across the Institute
- Strong planning skills, the ability to prioritize in the face of competing demands, proven success in delivering work personally (and through others) to tight deadlines
- Good communication skills, both oral and written, and experience of drafting and presenting clear and concise reports on complex issues at management level, always with excellent attention to detail
- Good interpersonal skills, including political awareness and emotional intelligence, enabling the post holder to influence and deliver at all levels and to work effectively as part of a team
- CIPD Member or equivalent specialist knowledge gained through experience in a senior HR position
- Evidence of CPD
What you get in return
In return for your hard work, dedication and commitment, we offer:
- Salary: From £55,300 subject to skills and experience
- Annual Leave: 28 days holiday plus three additional days (usually taken over Christmas) plus bank holidays.
- Pension: Defined contribution pension scheme, with the Crick contributing between 3 and 16% of your salary
- Health and Wellbeing: One stop shop, onsite Occupational Health to help you manage your wellbeing
- Socials: Host to over 1500 employees and students, from worldwide territories there is no shortage of social groups and events for you to attend
- Dining: On site restaurant tailored to your dietary requirement plentiful delicacies for you to choose – subsidised of course!
Closing date: 1st September 2024
If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our HR Business Partner please click ‘apply' today, we'd love to hear from you!
All offers of employment are subject to successful security screening (including enhanced DBS check) and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.