Interim Assistant HR Business Partner
Lewes | Full Time | Interim (9 month FTC) | £39,000 - £43,000
Hybrid Working – 2-3 days visiting different sites
Start date - ASAP
* Own vehicle essential *
Working within a team, the purpose of this role is to partner with managers and leaders to strengthen people management capability, drive effective workforce planning and support a positive, high‑performing culture. The role provides expert HR guidance across the employee lifecycle, using data, insight and coaching to inform decisions, enable organisational change and ensure fair, consistent application of policies. By building strong relationships, facilitating meaningful consultation and promoting best practice, the role helps the organisation to achieve its strategic objectives through its people.
HR Advice & People Management
- Support managers with people issues, business planning and key decisions.
- Raise standards of leadership, people management and performance.
- Work with the HR Business Partner to meet headcount targets, oversee recruitment, advise on resourcing and support organisational change.
- Use people data (including staff surveys) to inform decisions, produce HR system reports and maintain data integrity.
- Lead and support change initiatives, including coaching managers.
- Build strong partnerships with other departments.
- Develop managers’ HR capability through guidance and training.
Performance, Attendance & Employee Relations
- Advise on performance and attendance issues to ensure proactive, fair and consistent management.
- Liaise with Occupational Health on long‑term sickness and light duty cases, interpreting advice for managers.
- Provide guidance on employee relations matters, ensuring policy compliance.
- Participate in disciplinary and grievance investigations and hearings.
- Ensure consistent, context‑aware application of HR policies and procedures.
- Collaborate with the wider HR/OD team to share best practice.
Information, Consultation & Engagement
- Support Business Partners and senior leaders with staff consultation and engagement activities.
- Act as a communication link between managers and representative bodies.
- Assist with trade union related meetings and activities.
This is a varied and rewarding role that requires travel to different sites and departments across the central and East locations. It is essential that this person has their own vehicle and is willing to travel.
Ideally you are a strong CIPD qualified HR generalist with experience providing HR advice to Managers, confident in supporting employee relations cases and have the ability to build strong relationships and work collaboratively. You will also be organised, proactive and able to manage a heavy and varied workload. A commitment to fairness, consistency and good people management is key to the success of this role.
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Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 9 months
Pay: £39,000.00-£43,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Work from home
Application question(s):
- Employee Relations casework experience
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Lewes
