Job Description

This is a great opportunity to showcase and develop your existing HR/People skills and knowledge as part of a friendly and supportive HR team, helping to drive culture change and facilitate service improvements across a large and diverse London Borough Council.


Working closely with line managers from a wide range of services you will regularly exercise your creative problem-solving and relationship building skills. There is plenty of variety and challenge, ranging from complex disciplinary, grievance and absence casework, to researching and drafting innovative new people policies and contributing to HR projects.


The role sits within the HR Department's Business Partner Team and works closely with the Resources and Talent Team to provide a comprehensive in-house offer to circa 3300 staff and managers providing services from Waste Management to Social Care, Libraries to Housing Development.


We are looking for enthusiastic and forward-looking HR professionals with demonstrable experience of handling a variety of casework in a fast-moving HR environment and the ability to prioritise and manage own workload. You will have good knowledge of employment law and best HR practice and above all be a team player with a good sense of humour, who is willing to be flexible in their approach, providing business focussed solutions to managers to support service delivery.

Our culture

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That's why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we'd love to hear from you

Contact Details -

If you would like to know more about the role, please contact

Flora Stevens

on

flora.stevens@enfield.gov.uk

for an informal discussion or to arrange a visit to the team.


If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact

Rebecca Spyrou at rebecca.spyrou@enfield.gov.uk

We do not see your name or title when shortlisting your application. This is one of many initiatives to build a more talented and diverse workforce. However, if you put your name on your CV or Statement it will be visible to us. For this reason, we ask that you do not include your name on these documents. Please note it is your responses to the Essential/Desirable criteria, as detailed in the and Person Specification which is available on the job advert, that will determine if you are shortlisted for an interview, therefore we encourage you to always address the essential and desirable criteria in your application/CV.


We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That's why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we'd love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working, click

here

to find out more.

Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:

An excellent pension through the

Local Government Pension Scheme

(LGPS). Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas. A blend of remote and office based working for most roles. Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months. Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods. Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family. Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work. 1 month's paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children's Social Care.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete fully and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.