Job Description

About The Role

Role

: Assistant Human Resource Business Partner

Location

: Chorley and South Ribble

Contract

: Full time 36.25 hours per week

Salary

: 34,434 - 39,152

Closing Date

: Wednesday 24th September 2025



If you are looking to take your HR skills to the next level, this is the role for you. By joining us you will be supporting the delivery of excellent services through brilliant people across Chorley and South Ribble. We are committed to exceptional people management and need the right person to help take us forward on this journey. This is a development role and is ideal for someone who has completed their CIPD level 5 and is looking to progress their HR career, or someone with significant generalist HR experience.



What you'll be doing You will support positive employee relations, including attendance and health and wellbeing, and will have experience of HR casework including conduct and performance management. You will be involved in implementing organisational change, transactional processes, recruitment, and HR projects. Who we're looking for You'll have experience of generalist HR including change management, employment law, employee relations. You may have experience supporting HR projects. You'll be enthusiastic and willing to progress in the role. You'll be an effective communicator and the ability to work well with a variety of different stakeholders. Other requirements This role requires some travel around our boroughs. You should have a valid driving licence or the equivalent mobility.

Our Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown) Hybrid/agile working from day one Local Government pension Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments Cashback website access for savings on brands you love Volunteering days Free parking Car Allowance [Level 10+ only]
Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We're always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you're interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the "Contact Us" form on our careers website.

About Us

Chorley Council is dedicated to providing first-class services and promoting the well-being of the local community. Our staff are our greatest resource, at the heart of everything we do, and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services for our residents. At Chorley Council, we're always striving to make our borough the best to live, work and visit.

Working Together

We share a number of our services with South Ribble Borough Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.

Additional information

Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.

Equal Opportunities

We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.



We're committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.



If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.