HR Business Partner

Whetstone, England, United Kingdom

7/6/2025

Job Title: HR Business Partner

Location: Whetstone, Leicester + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF63908

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a HR Business Partner, at our Warrington, Cheshire site.

The role

As a HR Business Partner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll collaborate with Business Unit/Functional Directors and line managers to deliver a high-quality, proactive HR service across their business units and the organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Oversee one or more business areas, providing HR operational guidance on day-to-day matters, and acting as a role model for Babcock Purpose and Principles.
• Coach and challenge line managers/leaders while developing relationships.
• Create HR value with insights for line management through data and trends.
• Support the design and execution of HR policy, change programs, strategic HR initiatives, and projects across the business area of responsibility.
• Ensure line management is aware of all HR initiatives.
  
  
  

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with two days in the office and remaining days working from home, based in Warrington, Cheshire.

Essential Experience Of The HR Business Partner

• Experience in a HRBP role within a large organization, handling complex HR issues and projects.
• Demonstrates robust industrial and employee relation skills.
• Strong knowledge of employment law.
• Experience working within a unionized environment.
• Natural communicator, adept at influencing and forging relationships across the business area for effective collaboration.
  
  
  

Qualifications For The HR Business Partner

• CIPD Level 5 qualified.
  
  
  

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
  
  
  

Cavendish Nuclear

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 20/07/2025

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