Human Resources

It is HR’s role to support the Home Office in fulfilling its bold people ambitions, and its mission to keep the UK safe and secure. Although today we face challenges like never before, we will not allow our focus to shift from the vision that the Home Office, and HR itself, is a great place to work. We want our HR function to be a positive, inclusive, collaborative, safe environment that enables us all to fulfil our true potential.

As trusted professionals we are increasingly relied upon to deliver innovative, expert HR solutions. We are proud of the professionalism that we as a function demonstrate in responding to these daily challenges. And we are equally proud of how we design and implement innovative, comprehensive and vital strategies for the longer-term health of the department and the Civil Service. This impact has been most recently seen with the publication of the Home Office People Strategy and its 2 supplementary strategies: the Health & Wellbeing Strategy, and the Diversity & Inclusion Strategy, Inclusive by Instinct.

We offer opportunities to join the profession through several routes alongside mainstream recruitment such as HR Fast Stream programme and apprenticeships. These programmes provide an opportunity to develop professional knowledge to advance your career alongside achieving a professional membership, which will further enhance your skills and CV.

What you could be doing

Roles in HR are grouped into Job Families, as set out in the Civil Service HR Career Framework. The HR Job Families are distinct groups that share the nature of their work and have a common purpose or function. They have similar characteristics, knowledge, skills, abilities and behaviours.

  • HR Operations – providing a range of services through in-house shared services, including work on joiners and leavers.
  • HR Business Partnering – a critical role identifying, developing and delivering people interventions in line with business objectives. Business Partners work closely with senior leaders to foster and nurture talent, leadership and culture, and develop people solutions to achieve the organisation’s objectives.
  • Learning & Talent Development – attracting, identifying, developing, engaging, retaining and deploying individuals who are considered particularly valuable to the Home Office.
  • Strategic Workforce Planning – ensuring we have the right resources, capability and talent in the right place at the right time to deliver our short, medium and long term priorities.
  • Policy & Employee Relations – developing policies that align with the Home Office’s overarching objectives. This includes Trade Union engagement and areas of employee engagement such as employee forums and networks.
  • Pay & Reward – ensuring people’s skills, behaviours and contributions are rewarded and recognised effectively.
  • Diversity & Inclusion – tackling under-representation, building inclusive cultures and ensuring system accountability for progress. Our team goes beyond the basic legislative requirements to create and implement evidence-based, innovative approaches that drive change.
  • Casework – providing expert advice, coaching and support to line managers on HR cases. Caseworkers deliver a key HR function by empowering line managers and supporting the business.
  • Organisational Design & Development – supporting and facilitating people, teams and organisations through change.

The benefits of working in the HR team at the Home Office

Working in HR at the Home Office is a multi-disciplinary profession that gives you transferable skills, making you more attractive to current and future employers – both in HR and in other professions.

When you work with us you’ll also have access to:

  • An unrivalled network of HR professionals, providing opportunities to learn from others and develop your skills
  • The chance to become an HR and L&D professional and gain CIPD accreditation
  • Career development both upward and lateral, including training packages such as leadership programmes.