Senior HR Business Partner

Are you ready to make a real impact in a role that blends strategic influence with meaningful people engagement? We’re on the lookout for an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join Capita on the Health Assessment Advisory Service (HAAS) contract. As the Senior HRBP, you’ll build partnerships with senior stakeholders, becoming their trusted advisor, as you lead the charge in driving employee engagement, and shaping a workplace culture that inclusive, values-led, and built for high performance. You will play a central part in shaping organisational values and ensuring they are embedded throughout the employee experience. It a chance to influence, innovate, and embed meaningful change. If you're ready to bring your expertise and make an immediate impact, we’d love to hear from you. This is a maternity cover contract for approximately 12 months. You will be home-based, with the occasional requirement to travel to Birmingham and Belfast. Job title: Senior HR Business Partner Job Description: What you’ll be doing: Lead the people strategy within the HAAS business area, underpinning business objectives to enable organisational change Challenge and influence SMT, acting as a coach and trusted partner Be the HR lead on larger scale and complex HR projects such as business change and organisational design transformation Lead engagement, diversity and inclusion activities Support the HRBP to ensure effective delivery of HR calendar events including pay review, HR audits etc. Remain abreast of market trends and functional best practices and work collaboratively with the Head of HR and centres of excellence, supporting them to ensure that activity is aligned to divisional strategy and activity. Ensuring that we actively attract and recruit the best candidates – measured by retention rates. Use business MI and data effectively to provide insight to the people agenda and inform decision making Provide a focus on resource plans, skills development, succession and engagement Develop innovative solutions to very complex issues. Lead cultural change initiatives to support the Employee value proposition (EVP), working closely with the HR/Reward team. Monitor and evaluate the impact of culture and engagement programmes, drive and embed action plans initiated from our people survey results Chair and own the monthly People Board ensuring feeds from supply chain partners & working directly with our clients DWP & DfC. Reviewing Engagement initiatives and how they feed in to the overall people plan, working collaboratively with HR. What we’re looking for: Specialised professional recognized as an expert in their discipline, or manager of a team of professionals with full management authority Strong technical HR experience Advocate for working collaboratively across the HR community to strengthen reputation and its relationship with the business Ability to coach and advise leadership to empower employees and build high-performing teams Leads by example by demonstrating the Capita purpose, values, behaviours and code of conduct Excellent interpersonal/communication skills with the ability to build trust Strong people management and relationship building skills to influence key stakeholders and leadership Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present clear, well-structured reports and briefs Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and detail oriented Ability to guide others in resolving complex issues in specialized area and serves as best practice/quality resource About HAAS: HAAS is a new service that brings together existing assessment services, for disabled people and people with health conditions, under a single provider in each geographical region. This will make accessing support simpler and easier for some of society most vulnerable people. HAAS is the successor to the Department for Work and Pensions' Personal Independence Payment contracts, which Capita has held since 2013. Capita will deliver assessments for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Work Capability Assessments (WCA) as well as a number of Specialist Benefits (SB). What in it for you? 25 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice Auto-enrolment to our company pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll be joining a network of experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you. What we hope you’ll do next: Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you. Equal Opportunities At Capita, we’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. We want everyone to have the best chance of succeeding as they move through their application and start their career with us. We are an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, we want to hear from you if you’d like to discuss any adjustments you might need during your recruitment process. Please email reasonableadjustments@capita.com or call 07784 237318 and we’ll get back to you to discuss. For more information about equal opportunities and the types of adjustments we can offer, please visit the Capita Careers website. If you have a question that does not relate to adjustments during your recruitment process, please email our Talent Acquisition team - CPScareers@capita.com We’re truly committed to building a diverse and representative workforce and as part of our strategic plans we are aiming to accelerate gender and ethnic representation in leadership. As such we would particularly welcome applications from people who are female and/or are from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds. Location: , United Kingdom Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent Capita is a consulting, transformation and digital services business. We deliver innovative solutions and simplify the connections between businesses and customers, governments and citizens. We're driven by our purpose: to create better outcomes – for our employees, clients and customers, suppliers and partners, investors, and society. We're committed to being a responsible business – in how we operate, serve society, respect our people and the environment, and deliver attractive returns to our investors. Every day we help millions of people, by delivering innovative solutions to transform and simplify the connections between businesses and customers, governments and citizens. We partner with clients and provide them with the insight and cutting-edge technologies that give time back, allowing them to focus on what they do best and making people lives easier and simpler. We operate in the UK, Europe, India and South Africa and currently have 55,000 talented people working in our three divisions: Capita Experience, Capita Public Service and Capita Portfolio.