SYP - Workforce Planning Business Partner - February 2023

Role:                   Workforce Planning Business Partner

Department:     People and Organisational Development

Location:            Carbrook HQ, Sheffield

Salary:                £44,310 - £48,546

Hours:                 37hrs

Contract Type: Temporary to March 2025

Role Purpose:

The workforce planning team offers our force three key services; support to operational workforce deployment; strategic workforce planning and workforce data management.

Our Workforce Planning Business Partner leads our Workforce Planning Management and Advisor team, their role is to partner with our P&OD People Partners, operational business areas and the duties management team to deliver key information around our posts and people. The aim is that support our operational managers understanding of their resources to aid with medium to long term strategic resourcing plans, that are aligned to the forces financial commitments so that we can move the right people resources into the right posts to meet our force business plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Promote a holistic approach to workforce planning, which underpins delivery of the force workforce plan, the national resourcing uplift, and the forces plan on a page
• Work to establish and embed a resource-forecasting tool so it becomes a business-as-usual activity in line with other business planning processes.
• Work with District Commanders/Head of Departments to understand the resource demands on their functions and develop realistic action plans to address gaps in the size and shape of their workforce. Reviewing short and long-term resource forecasts to allow more effective succession and recruitment planning.
• Work closely with BP peers to understand and anticipate future challenges.
• Capture and model business pipeline data to determine the impacts on the future workforce, enabling a strategic view of the workforce.
• Work closely with senior leaders to develop analyses, scenarios and options to formulate strategic plans and initiatives.
• Anticipate trends in the policing sector and across the broader political, external operating environment.
• Analyse and monitor workforce statistics including retention, leavers and diversity profiles to identify trends and gaps, making recommendations to address these.
• Work with recruitment and ODL to ensure the organisation's talent is fit to meet future challenges, ensuring that resourcing plans are fit for purpose.
• Skilled in setting function, team and individual objectives, assessing progress, identifying emerging risks, issues and opportunities, and taking corrective steps as required to ensure that the right results are achieved.
• Able to lead, develop and motivate, both within P&OD/SR and across the organisation, showing passion, energy and commitment, creating strong engagement with P&OD’s priorities and with Force values and behaviours.
• Able to hold individuals to account for their performance and behaviours.
• Set performance objectives, holding staff accountable for delivering these and taking appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the delivery of SR priorities.

Skills and experience:

For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position, please refer to the attached role profile.

Benefits:

We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Generous ‘family’ leave
• Voluntary CPD Events for all staff to allow continuous development
• Mentoring & Coaching Scheme
• Paid Professional Subscriptions when relevant to role
• Access to a range of occupational health facilities
• Generous pension scheme
• Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
• Additional benefits for Westfield Health members
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sports and Social Club

Eligibility:

Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity.  A minimum checkable history of 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.

Appearance & Standards:

SYP is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain role sensitive professional standards in dress and appearance. Officers, staff and volunteers of South Yorkshire Police are permitted to have tattoos visible whilst on duty provided the tattoo is not considered to be unacceptable or otherwise inappropriate. Tattoos will be reviewed as part of the recruitment and selection process.  

South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values:

Please find attached information sheet on South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values. The force has a particular focus on three areas, Fairness, Integrity and Trust. Under each of these three headings there are key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.

Smarter ways of Working:

South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables SYP to provide an outstanding service to the community.

There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid.

This role has been evaluated as a Hybrid role.

Hybrid: Applicable when the work can be undertaken at any location, whether that be a SYP building or from home.

Closing Date:

Sunday, 26 March 2023 at 23:55

Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made between the Talent Acquisition Manager and the Line Manager for the role.

Contact point for applicants:

For further information about the role, please contact Mark Smith on Mark.Smith2@southyorks.pnn.police.uk   

Diversity & Inclusion:

Expressions of interest are particularly welcome from female and ethnic minority officers.

It’s really important to us that the department represents the community we serve, in order for us to provide the best service, utilising a range of backgrounds, experience and skills.  We support and value all officers and staff and the unique experiences they bring to the role.  We strongly encourage and welcome expressions of interest from these valuable underrepresented groups.

If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on positiveaction@southyorks.pnn.police.uk

In addition, we will look to support anyone who requires Part Time/Job share working hours.

Note to candidates:

Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage, the relevant internal or external pre-employment checks are required.  These include vetting clearance or review, prior to being appointed to the new role and start date being agreed.

Apply for the role:

To apply for the role, please click the ‘Apply’ button.

Internal Candidates:

This vacancy is temporary therefore, you must have the support of your current Line Manager to apply. If you are a permanent member of staff, this would be classed as a secondment opportunity. If you are on a fixed term contract, you must contact the Talent Acquisition Team before applying.  Please ensure that you and your current line manager complete the attached consent form.  Please email the completed form to the hiring line manager, Mark Smith, with the role title and the closing date stated in the subject of your email.

Without support, your application will not be considered any further.