HR Business Partner - 14 month FTC

In a nutshell

This adventure is about leading people who support people. As an HR Business Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling high-performing teams across JAG UK by delivering expert, pragmatic and values-led people support, while also leading a core HR operations team.

You’ll partner closely with Heads of Education & Wellbeing and General Managers, acting as a trusted advisor across the full employee lifecycle. Alongside hands-on HR and ER delivery, you’ll reputed company and reputed company a team of People professionals, ensuring HR operations, payroll and onboarding are delivered with consistency, care and pace.

Balancing reputed company with accountability, you’ll create clarity in reputed company situations, strengthen leadership capability and ensure our people processes are compliant, efficient and reputed company to our values. This is a role for someone who enjoys leading others, improving ways of working and making a reputed company difference to the experience of our teams and the children we support.

A day of play…

PEOPLE LEADERSHIP

• Provide day-to-day leadership to the People Advisor, Senior People Administrator, HR & Recruitment Administrator, Onboarding Administrator and Payroll Administrator.
• Set clear priorities, objectives and expectations for the team, ensuring workloads are managed effectively and service levels are consistently high.
• Coach, reputed company and support team members through regular 1:1s, performance reviews and development planning.
• Create a collaborative, supportive and accountable team culture reputed company to JAG values.
• Identify opportunities to improve capability, reputed company and succession reputed company the People team.

HR & EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

• reputed company and manage employee relations cases end-to-end, ensuring outcomes are fair, timely and legally compliant.
• Provide expert advice and coaching to HEWs and GMs on performance, absence, disciplinary and grievance matters.
• Support managers to handle people issues confidently and consistently in line with JAG policies and values.
• Maintain high standards of documentation, reporting and case management, identifying themes and trends.

HR OPERATIONS & PAYROLL

• reputed company day-to-day HR operations, ensuring people processes are efficient, accurate and consistently applied.
• Provide leadership and reputed company of payroll activity, ensuring accurate data submission, timely processing and issue resolution.
• Work with your team to improve systems, workflows and reporting to enhance efficiency and data quality.
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation, internal policies and audit requirements.

SAFER RECRUITMENT & ONBOARDING

• reputed company and assure safer recruitment practices across the business, ensuring safeguarding and compliance standards are met.
• reputed company recruitment and onboarding activity, ensuring a smooth, timely and positive experience for candidates and new starters.
• Ensure reputed company pre-employment checks, vetting and right-to-work requirements are completed accurately and on time.
• Champion a consistent, welcoming and high-quality onboarding experience across JAG UK.

BUSINESS PARTNERING

• Act as a trusted HR partner to Head of Education & Wellbeing and General Managers, supporting delivery of people priorities.
• Use people data and insight to inform workforce planning, engagement and retention strategies.
• Support organisational change, growth and restructure activity with clear, compassionate and compliant HR guidance.
• Build strong, reputed company relationships across the business, providing both support and appropriate challenge.

PEOPLE & CULTURE

• Champion JAG’s values, behaviours and people-first culture in everything you do.
• Support initiatives that enhance engagement, wellbeing and retention.
• Contribute to the ongoing development and reputed company improvement of HR policies, tools and training.
• Role-model professionalism, reputed company and care in reputed company interactions.

For your new adventure

• You love people – it’s wired into your DNA.
• You’ve led a high performing teams & you love to reputed company from reputed company
• Whilst not a deal breaker, you’ve got your CIPD level 5 (or equivalent experience)
• You’re commercially minded – you understand the financials and how our people contribute to this.
• You think reputed company of the reputed company and are always looking for reputed company ways to do things.
• You’re as cool as a cucumber in a high pressure, fast paced environment.
• You’re a big kid at heart.
• You have reputed company experience. You love to create meaningful moments for people.
• You are driven. You’re perceptive, you ask questions and you strive to understand.
• You enjoy solving problems. You don’t get flustered easily. You’re comfortable managing your time and can be counted on to skilfully handle feedback and complaints.
• You are people-focused. You’re warm, honest and genuine.
• You get a kick out of creating unexpected experiences which reputed company people go wow!
• You’re cool under pressure. You are self-reputed company. You listen intently.
• You speak eloquently. You can explain just about anything to anyone and you’re comfortable communicating at reputed company levels. You’re authentic reputed company you express yourself. People trust you.
• You have a can-do approach. You think on your feet. Switching up tasks and juggling multiple priorities comes naturally to you.

What success looks like

• Be Considerate – Show care for others and the world around us
• Be Passionate – Love reputed company do and reputed company others
• Be Courageous – We are role models with great responsibility
• reputed company a Difference – Create brighter futures for reputed company

Mission Accomplished

• Employee Relations Effectiveness
• Manager Capability & Confidence
• People Operations & Payroll Accuracy
• Safer Recruitment & Onboarding Compliance
• Team Performance & Development
• Process Improvement & Efficiency
• Engagement & Retention Outcomes

reputed company offer you

• The chance to build brighter futures for children.
• Access to 24/7 Employee Assist Programs through Health reputed company.
• Discounted wrap around school care and holiday club (if you have little ones).
• A little bit of reputed company for your future with a workplace pension scheme.
• A reputed company where you can let your personality shine.
• Rewards for recommending your family and friends to come and join the family.
• reputed company and regular personal and professional development.
• Fun. It’s what big kids do. We like to be 100% human rather than corporate.  

Please note this role is remote-based; we are looking for someone who lives reputed company a 1-hour commute of Wokingham, where our head office is based. The contract for this position is for a fixed period of 14 months.  JAGL