Paula Marsh Email & Phone Number

Trowbridge

The main focus of my post is delivery of the Council's People Strategy, as well as developing policies and procedures in line with the Council’s business plan and corporate priorities. I support the Director of HR&OD to shape, translate and deliver the people strategy to support business requirements, ensuring delivery of the strategic outcomes from the people strategy actions plans. I manage a team of 10 with responsibility for:- Delivery of a range of strategic projects (e.g. a new careers website);- Development, implementation and review of HR policies and procedures- Negotiation and consultation with the recognized trade unions- Organisational and job design and job evaluation schemes (GLPC & HAY) - Search and selection process for senior appointments- Development and delivery of a strategic reward plan- HR equalities including annual equalities monitoring report, gender pay gap report and HR equality objectives.

Trowbridge, Wiltshire

Reporting to the Director of HR&OD I support Directors and Heads of Service with workforce planning in line with business plan objectives. I provide hands on support with service design, career progression and resource planning, identification of service wide training and development needs, improvements to staff performance, engagement and cultural change work. I commission and oversee support from the wider HR&OD team in relation to employee relations, recruitment, training, data and payroll.Current areas of focus include:- Implementation of flexible working solutions to support recruitment/retention in hard to fill roles;- Review of structures to design in better career progression and address performance issues;- Support for staff survey action planning and ‘You said, we did’ feedback mechanisms.I have also led on organisation-wide projects including the implementation of a Learning Management System, the purchase and roll out of a staff reward scheme and development of the annual staff survey.

Trowbridge, Wiltshire

Managing a team of policy officers, coordinating policy development, review and training, overseeing job evaluation and reward scheme administration. Presenting and agreeing policy changes at formal Union negotiation and Member committees. Researching and answering complex policy and employment legislation queries. Implementing pension auto-enrolment.

Trowbridge, Wiltshire

Reviewing and developing policies to reflect best practice and employment legislation as well as supporting business aims. Implementing policy changes through consultation with stakeholders and unions. Developing and delivering manager training on key policies. Supporting managers with development of job profiles. Carrying out job evaluation to ensure consistency of pay and grading.

Trowbridge, Wiltshire

Working in a team of three staff providing full generalist HR support across the District Council (c.600 staff) including casework, policy development, training, recruitment, reward and strategy. Also seconded part time to the project team responsible for developing integrated systems and processes (including SAP payroll implementation) to support the move to “One Council” in April 2009.

Yate, Bristol

Day to day running of HR function (c. 400 permanent and 100 agency staff) at a FMCG manufacturing site. Working with the senior management team to develop the workforce strategy and culture change programmes and providing day to day HR service in a unionised environment including:- HR administration (producing contracts, policy writing, minute taking);- Casework (absence management, disciplinary, grievance and performance management);- High volume recruitment (writing adverts, shortlisting candidates and conducting interviews);- Learning and development provision (booking external training, delivering in-house training);- Working closely with finance to deliver a weekly and monthly payroll.

Basingstoke

Joined on an HR graduate programme. Initial placement based in a warehouse/logistics environment focused on operational HR, then a placement at head office supporting graduate recruitment and strategic projects. My final placement, which became my permanent role, was as HR advisor across three small distribution sites. Each had a very different culture, issues and management style. I gained experience in building credibility with the management teams at each site in order to influence and support their people processes.

Msc In Management With Hr, Busines And Management, First

A one year full time Masters degree which included modules on all aspects of business, then provided an opportunity to specialise in Human.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Psychology, 1St Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Community action group

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