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Provide essential training to the workforce to ensure they provide services to the community in a safe an legal way.Provide the right learning solutions for the right people in the right way, including:Statutory, regulatory and health and safety Training.Digital and ICT Training.Council induction.Manage organisational development and workforce training projects.

- Work in collaboration with stakeholders to diagnose organisation, team and individual issues, undertake data analysis, facilitate development of options and designs for solutions, implement and then evaluate agreed solution using project management methodology. - Project Lead for the 360 Feedback Programme for Senior Leaders and Managers.- Lead for Leadership and Management Apprenticeships.- OD Lead for Culture Change Group for Cumbria Care.- Undertaking research on options to introduce a graduate scheme.- Review and provision of a virtual Wellbeing and Resilience support offer for the workforce.

Lead for the Organisation Development team, focusing on enhancing the capability and performance of the organisation through its people. We focus on learning and development solutions, talent and workforce planning, culture and behaviours, yeam dynamics, colleague engagement amd communication and managing change.Creation and implementation of Your Time, a simple new concept to enhance the art of conversation and ensure the wellbeing, performance an development of colleagues.Collaborated on the introduction of a 'Reallocations' process to support the council through the Covid-19 pandemic, ensuring critical services are resourced.Lead for Your Voice - our colleague engagement and communication initiative.Lead for Our Talent - a brand new workstream focusing on the attraction, retention and development of our colleagues, along with developing our workforce planning capability.

Led the projects and OD team to support a transforming organisation.Lead for the implementation of a new job evaluation system, creation of a colleague engagement and communication initiative Your Voice, and a lean process review of the HR function, including a new case management system.

Work in partnership with Service Chief Officers and associated management team to ensure all aspects of HR are managed with minimal risk and maximum commercial focus to the organisation, including providing consultative advice and support on change programmes, employee relations, learning and development, resourcing, talent management, succession planning, and employee engagement.Led and managed HR and corporate projects, including the launch of 'Our Values' to the whole organisation, procurement of a new occupational health provider, design and introduction of succession planning, and a number of change programmes that have included organisational design and TUPE.

Provided support the HR Director in providing an excellent commercial and pragmatic HR service.Worked in consultation with my business area to support with restructuring programmes, complex employee relations cases, employment law and policy advice.Ensure an effective partnership with the union in respect of employee relations cases and restructures.Managed a team of one HR Advisor, one Recruitment Co-ordinator and one HR Assistant, providing coaching and support to them as required.

Supported my business area with change programmes to exit sites, including working in consultation with the union and supporting with the redeployment of colleagues in connection with these. Also provided support to the business on complex employee relations, resourcing and reward issues, organisation design, talent, succession planning and development initiatives.Acted as HR Lead for an initiative with Unite resulting in improved partnership between the business, HR and the union. Also, worked as the Performance Management Lead for the business and HR Team for 2013.Worked closely with my business leads to achieve their People Agenda, including use of a Colleague Forum.Managed an HR Advisor providing support, coaching and management of poor performance as required.

Advise managers on Discipline, Capability, Grievance and Long Term Sickness cases and ad hoc HR policy queries.Also involved in various project work as required by the business, including change management, conducting workshops for management on managing pyschological illnesses in the workplace, improving capability (attendance and performance) management.

Advised line management on discipline, grievance, absence management, flexible working, redundancy, TUPE and general HR policy queries.

Managed a portfolio of SMEs in various industries, advising them on all employment law and HR issues, including managing discipline, grievance and absence cases, TUPE and redundancy, recruitment and selection, performance management and appraisal systems and designing their contracts of employment and staff handbooks.Sold, designed and ran public training courses to Mentor Services clients, including Essentials of Employment, Discipline, Grievance and Managing Absence.