HR Team Manager

How You'll Make a Difference

The HR Casework and Change team enables the council to meet its people management responsibilities by delivering consistent and practical HR advice. Jointly leading the team, you will set high professional standards through a strong focus on service delivery and working with line managers to develop their people management capability.

What You Will Be Doing

• As the subject matter expert, you will provide advice and guidance to team members and departmental managers on the best application of HR policy, compliance and legislation.
• You will be managing a team of HR professionals, ensuring alignment to the HR People Strategy.
• With a focus on team support, you will ensure effective delivery capacity, work allocation and meeting priorities to enable people management issues to be resolved efficiently.
• You will be expected to have your own case load of complex cases and more challenging strategic project work.
• Using your experience and knowledge, you will be an expert in solving problems to be able to deliver solutions which work for our customers, are legally compliant and promote a fair and equitable workplace.
  
  

What We Need From You

• We require you to have proven, contemporary HR delivery experience and sound technical expertise in employee relations legislation, casework practice and change management principles, ideally gained within a complex operating environment.
• You will be professionally qualified, ideally to CIPD Chartered Membership (intermediate level), or have an equivalent level of experience.
• You must have leadership and people management skills within the specialised HR area of casework and change.
• It is essential that you have excellent written and spoken communication skills, with strong analytical and problem solving abilities to enable you to influence and challenge decision makers and work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders.

You will have demonstrable experience of project management principles to deliver HR business solutions or pieces of work which require research, development and evaluation.

What You Need To Know

• This role is being offered as a limited term contract for up to 12 months from June 2026.
  
  

Interviews will be held on 19th May 2026.

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• We invest in the careers of our people, and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.
• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
  
  

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
• We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.
  
  

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

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