Following organisational restructure, the London Fire Brigade is now focused on embedding a new HR Business Partnering model. This Senior Human Resources Business Partner role offers the opportunity to help define and deliver a mature, trusted, and high-impact HR service.
You will work with a newly formed HR Business Partnering (HRBP) team, shaping ways of working, strengthening stakeholder confidence, and resetting expectations of the HR function. Partnering with senior leaders, you will provide strategic, pragmatic advice on complex people matters, supporting organisational resilience and effective leadership in a critical public service environment.
Relying on data and insights, you will collaborate with departments leads at Deputy Assistant Commissioner (DAC) and Top Management Group (TMG) level to deliver HR services in line with policy and procedure as well as the Brigade’s Values of Service, Courage, Learning, Teamwork, Integrity and Equity.
You will be integral in providing HR expertise throughout organisational change, supporting leaders and workforce improvements.
Within the People Services Directorate, you will successfully manage and develop your Business Partners and support professional development.
You will have excellent interpersonal skills and people skills to develop and maintain positive and effective working relationships with senior leaders within the business and subject matter experts across HR and other enabling functions.
Further information about the main duties and responsibilities of the role are detailed in the job description. If you are unable to see the job description, salary range or the full advert, please visit our jobs pages at https://jobs-london-fire-gov-uk.jobsmarket.site/pages/en-gb/jobs to access the full advert.
We value the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across London. The London Fire Commissioner is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) is London’s fire and rescue service – one of the largest firefighting and rescue organisations in the world. We are here to make London a safer city. Employing over 5000 people across our operational team (our firefighters), control (our call handlers who answer 999 calls), fire safety and our non-operational team (our team who work behind the scenes to support our front-line services, which includes Fleet, IT, HR, Finance, Procurement, Communications team and many more).
LFB has been on a journey of transformation and improvement over the last few years and this includes improving the culture of the organisation and modernising our ways of working. Our journey is clearly laid out in our Community Risk Management Plan, ‘Your London Fire Brigade’, demonstrating our commitment to evolve and meet future challenges.
