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Working as part of the People Change team, the People Operations Consultant is responsible for providing a professional, generalist people operational service across the areas of formal people cases, delivery of small-scale people projects and supporting with large-scale people projects and initiatives.

The role holder will provide face to face support on categorised high risk/high profile formal people cases, o enable line managers to manage such cases through to resolution.

In addition, this role will form a flexible pool of operational people support to deliver defined small-scale people projects through to implementation, collaborating with senior leaders within the People function and the wider enterprise as needed. This will typically involve the deployment of business-related projects (including those related to cost / efficiency / headcount and TUPE) through to delivery.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Provide dedicated face to face support on categorised high risk/high profile formal people cases, to enable line managers to manage such cases through to resolution and to achieve the most positive outcome possible.
• Coach customers on Core People processes, instilling people management best practice in order to drive enhanced line manager capability.
• Provide support to and enable the delivery of the standard People Calendar activities e.g. People Boards and annual pay review.
• Delivery of defined small-scale people related projects and initiatives, working with the wider People function as needed, to ensure end to end delivery from design to implementation g. small- scale restructuring and TUPE initiatives.
• Work collaboratively with Senior People Consultants to support the delivery of transformation/change/People Strategy related projects and initiatives.
• Ensure quality assurance of projects by adherence to appropriate project governance, lifecycle frameworks and templates e.g. projects plans, RAID, stakeholder analysis, change analysis, communications.
• Influence effectively across the People Function to ensure that effective and timely people project solutions are developed to meet identified business needs.
• Completing/updating key documents used to monitor progress e.g. issues log and reporting mechanisms to support the delivery of project to plan timelines.
• Provide updates/data to inform key performance indicators (KPIs), metrics and service level agreements for projects and initiatives.
• Support with maintaining project dashboard for communication of status, risks and next steps.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships and communication with key stakeholders across both high risk/high profile formal people cases and projects to provide updates on progress and escalate risks, issues etc.
• Review opportunities, trends and areas of good practice/improvement and share as appropriate.
• Build and develop constructive Trade Union relationships, facilitating effective industrial relations within the customer.

Job Context and Challenges:

Sellafield Limited is a large industrial organisation with more than 10,000 employees carrying out a diverse of roles (mix of blue and white collar, from junior administrators, to internationally recognised technical experts) employed on a number of different sets of terms and conditions, each supported by a number of complex historic agreements.

The organisation is heavily unionised with 3 recognised Unions representing 3 diverse worker groups each with their own unique issues and concerns.

The organisation is currently going through a period of unprecedented change following the transition to a new value driven operating model, the end of reprocessing and the acceleration of risk and hazard reduction.

As part of the transformation there are several work streams that are looking at changing how we work and how we ensure the People function is set up to effectively enable the business to deliver the People Strategy.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource or equivalent experience.
• Level 5 CIPD, or equivalent educational achievement (foundation degree/HND level) or a willingness to achieve this upon appointment.
• A broad level of professional HR related knowledge and experience as well as an understanding of the people systems and processes used within the organisation.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering people related projects/initiatives.
• Demonstrable and extensive knowledge of employment legislation.
•Demonstrable experience of business and people change management principles and implementation.
• The above stated requirements demonstrate the Company’s commitment to provide opportunities for candidates to further develop professional expertise. It is recognised however, that some internal candidates may not currently hold all the above qualifications and in such cases suitable relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of formal educational/professional qualifications.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Contact/s: Claire Keenaghan

To be considered for this secondment opportunity applicants must;
• Be a current grade 4A.
• Have confirmation from their line manager that they will be released for the full secondment totalling 18 months.
• Be available to take up the secondment immediately.

The interviews for this secondment are expected to be week commencing 17th February 2025.

ASW’s may have the right to apply for internal Sellafield Ltd vacancies. Please note if you are an Agency Supplied Worker you are required to attach evidence of all qualifications obtained to support your application. We require a minimum of A*-C GCSE in English, Maths & Science/IT or equivalent / higher qualification.

If you choose to apply for this role and your application is shortlisted by the hiring manager, you will be invited to a competency based interview. In the interview, you will be assessed against the below competencies:

Behavioural:
Integrity
Collaboration
Resilience

Technical:
Providing high quality HR Services

Please see link to the competency framework for further information:
https://slportal.ssa-intra.net/pub/SC001/00027/Competency%20Framework/Forms/AllItems.aspx

If your technical competency is not in the above framework, please refer to the profession’s share point page for further information.

Sellafield Ltd are recognised as a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3). Disability Confident employers offer an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. Sellafield Ltd define the minimum criteria as the ‘essential skills’ which are listed on the vacancy notice. Whilst completing your application form, you will be able to indicate if you wish to be considered under the disability confident scheme. If you would prefer to discuss this directly with us, please contact the GBS Recruitment team on recruitment@sellafieldcloud.co.uk.

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