Office for National Statistics UK Jobs – HR Officer

About the job

Location

We operate a hybrid working model and fully support flexibility with colleagues already based across the UK working from home and linked to one of our core locations in Newport, Titchfield (Fareham) or Darlington.

For this role you will be linked to one of the core locations, the frequency of attendance at our offices is agreed with you as relevant to your role.

Job Summary

About the job

Do you have excellent communication and organisational skills? Have you got a good eye for detail? If so, this might be the role for you.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.

The People Practice and Insights Division brings together People Data and Insights, covering People Analytics and Strategic Workforce Planning, and People Expert Services which has a broad portfolio incorporating Pay and Reward, Complex Casework management, Employee Relations Investigations, HR Policy, and Trade Union engagement. In People Expert Services we provide a crucial service to ONS working collaboratively with our colleagues across HR, particularly within OD&D, HR Business Partnering, Culture and Inclusion & Diversity using innovative approaches to improve people fundamentals which enable us to attract, nurture and retain the best.

Job Description

The Role

This is a fantastic opportunity for a HR professional or others to develop and apply specialist knowledge across a broad range of issues gain experience of the Policy, Case Management and Pay and Reward specialisms. These roles will rotate between Pay & Reward, Employee Relations Policy and Case Working teams on a 9-month basis providing an opportunity to gain experience in all these areas of work developing your capabilities for problem solving across these vital operational HR areas Working collaboratively, you will be actively involved in a varied range of HR people projects, provide expert advice, investigate, and resolve complex cases and shape future policies and approaches across Employee Relations and Reward.

These roles will report into three teams within the People Expert Services branch: Employment Relations policy, Employee Relations Case Working and, Pay and Reward.

Your Responsibilities Include

Responsibilities:

• Developing and applying your knowledge of employment law, people policies including pay and reward.
• Researching and analysing different approaches and examples of good employee policies to inform people policies and approaches.
• Managing customer and stakeholder queries relating to people policies, including pay and reward.
• Assisting managers in the management policy queries, management of cases including disciplinary case management.
• Providing analysis of complex ER and Pay and Reward cases and recommendations for resolution.
• Engaging with Departmental Trade Unions where necessary.
• Providing expert advice to transactional HR colleagues to interpret policy correctly.
• Providing guidance and support to managers in understanding policy.
• Coaching and advising managers on how to carry out investigations and make decisions in discipline and grievance cases.
• Coaching and advising Decision, Investigation and Appeal managers on how to carry out investigations and make decisions in discipline and grievance cases.
• Participating in the Review, development and implementation of Employment Policies including Pay and Reward policy .
• Acting as an expert point of contact for complex cases including those that have progressed to an Employment Tribunal or Civil Service Appeal Board.
• Identifying people issues and working with business areas and HR Business Partners on effective solutions.
• Co-ordinating and managing relevant TUPE activity across the organisations.
• Assist in the design and implementation of the annual pay award cycle
• Continually looking to improve the service provided by Employment Relations, and Pay and Reward Teams. Participation in wider HR projects and activity across the People & Performance Division where required.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• Experience of working within a complex and diverse Human Resources environment.
• Research and analysis – the ability to gather data and understand information, particularly relating to people policies and processes.
• Communication and influencing – the ability to summarise the issue and present options for resolution including recommended solution.
• Ability to work collaboratively to set priorities, goals, objectives, and timescales in line with demanding deadlines.

Desirable Criteria

• A CIPD level 5 qualification.
• Knowledge of people policies, employee relations or pay and reward.
• Ability to change focus at short notice and manage multiple projects, queries and issues.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

The

Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that the benefits pack attached (bottom of page) will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture.

We are an organisation that takes well-being seriously and lives and breathes the desire to modernise the workplace of the future. Everyone, from our office-based colleagues across our office sites, to our field interviewers and airports and ports passenger survey teams, are part of a diverse and inclusive family.

Inclusion & Accessibility

At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a member of the Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident Leader we’re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.

If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using

Shortlisting and Interview

The ONS regularly run webinars and support sessions for candidates. You can find details on all our upcoming webinars on our

Assessment at application stage will be based on your work history, skill and experience and personal statement. Your application should be tailored to demonstrate any skills, knowledge and experience that are relevant to the content of the role.

Your personal statement should be no longer than 12 50 words . You should use this space to provide evidence for each essential criterion within the person specification. As the criteria are scored, we would recommend that you give clear examples for each including the impact of your actions.

Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage.

In cases where there is a high number of applications the sift pass mark may be adjusted and candidates will be invited to interview in merit order, i.e., those scoring the highest.

Should you be invited to interview, you will be assessed using various assessment techniques aligned to the Civil Service Success Profiles, where you’ll be assessed against all the behaviours outlined in the advert as well as against the technical areas listed in the advert.

Interviews will be held with those who pass the sift via video conferencing.

Sift will take place from – 7th November 2023

Interviews will take place from – 16th November 2023

Dates are subject to change.

Full terms and conditions are attached at the bottom of this advert.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is

People working with government assets must complete

Nationality Requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Working for the Civil Service

The

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

• Name : Ian Johnson
• Email : [email protected]
• Telephone : Ian Johnson

Recruitment team :

• Email : [email protected]

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the