HR&OD Business Partner

As an HR and OD Business Partner, you’ll deliver a customer-focused, high-quality HR service across the University. Working closely with leaders, managers, and colleagues, you will provide expert professional HR advice on terms and conditions, policies, and procedures across the full employee lifecycle, enabling us to create an inclusive, innovative, and high-performing environment.

You will play a key role in supporting transformational change, helping teams align with the University’s People Strategy while embedding best practice HR processes and digital approaches to service improvement.

What We’re Looking For

Qualifications:

• Degree-level education or significant equivalent experience.
• CIPD Level 5 qualification (or equivalent experience).

Experience:

• Strong working knowledge of HR policies, employment law, and best practice.
• Experience managing employee relations cases (disciplinary, grievance, performance, organisational change).
• Understanding of key compliance requirements, including UKVI and DBS processes.
• A track record of implementing service improvements within HR.

Our Core Behaviours

As part of our Technical Expert job family, you’ll thrive in this role if you are:

• Self-aware and committed to continuous learning
• Customer focused, delivering service excellence
• Credible and professional, with strong personal integrity
• A positive leader, inspiring confidence in others
• Digitally confident, embracing new technologies to improve processes

£33,482 to £38,249 per annum

32 days annual leave, plus 11 bank holidays and discretionary days

Up to 10% employer pension contribution

Death in service benefit (5 x annual salary)

Income protection - If you become too ill to work, you would be entitled to income protection cover of 50% of pay until retirement age, following your termination of employment from the University, subject to scheme conditions. 

The University offers enhanced benefits over and above the statutory provisions for maternity, paternity, adoption and surrogacy, parental and shared parental leave provisions. We have also recently introduced a Fostering Friendly Policy.

Employee Assistance programme - you will also have access to a range of digital health and wellbeing resources through the Help@Hand app. You and your family will have access to the following services free of charge:

• Remote GP appointment
• Mental health support
• Physiotherapy
• Personal training sessions
• Nutritional consultations
• Medical second opinions
• Life, money and wellbeing support

Discounted gym memberships and fitness classes

Generous sick pay scheme that increases with service up to a maximum of six months full pay followed by six months half pay