Head of Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Business Partnering

The HR Division (HRD) is a strategic, corporate, expert division which provides services to the organisation. Therefore, its role is to meet the needs of the organisation by developing, promoting, implementing and embedding best practice in people leadership and management. In addition, HRD is responsible for enabling people to develop and grow and fulfil their potential at work and by ensuring that the organisation is successful.

Upcoming priorities for the whole Division include delivering recruitment remains HR's number one priority, ensuring we can meet the demands of the organisation whilst continually improving our approach and supporting this with a structured approach to talent through quality development activity; Aligning our reward strategies with our business aims, reviewing and reforming our pay structures; Improving diversity and inclusion as well as reducing bullying, harassment and discrimination is key.

We are focused on increasing BAME representation in our workforce as well as growing the number of women in senior roles. Focus on strengthening our health safety and wellbeing arrangements to support and enable colleagues to work in a healthy environment is important to us, no more so than in current times; Continuing to invest in raising the skills and professionalism of our corporate HR capability and in securing better value from external/ shared service supplier. The candidate can be based in any HSE office outside of London, but a regular presence in Bootle (where many of the HR Division are located) will be required.

Business Partnering

• Provision of an expert business- focused HR business partner service to HSE's Divisions.


Health, Safety and Wellbeing

• Establish and implement an HSW strategy ensuring HSW arrangements and their outputs contribute to business planning, risk management and overall business performance monitoring.


• Lead on all aspects of health and wellbeing within HSE, ensuring appropriate systems and monitoring are in place to ensure the successful safeguarding of HSE employees.


Business Management

• Lead focus on tracking, monitoring and iterating the HR Division's activity to analyse and drive business performance across HRD to support HSE outputs.


• Set and oversee the strategic direction across HSE for workforce planning and future shaping activity to deliver the HSE strategy.


• Lead on organisational design within HSE