The Role
Reporting to the Head of People Services, you will play a pivotal strategic role in shaping an exceptional employee experience and building strong organisational and people capability. You’ll partner with leaders across the organisation to deliver effective people strategies, embed Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, and develop leadership capability across our workforce.
You will lead a small team of People Partners, providing expert guidance on complex employee relations, organisation-wide change initiatives, workforce planning, and culture-building activities.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional who brings credibility, compassion, and a proactive approach to enabling both people and organisational success.
What you’ll bring
You will be an experienced People Partner (or operating at a more senior level) with a strong track record of supporting leaders in complex, fast paced environments. You will bring:
- Significant experience as a People Partner level or above
- Complex ER case management experience
- Strong analytical, problem solving and data interpretation skills
- Line management experience
- An understanding of trauma-informed or psychologically informed approaches
- A passion for equality, diversity and inclusion and experience of embedding this into organisational policy and practice
- Ideally, experience of working in the housing sector but this is not essential
- A values driven approach
- Strong relationship-building, coaching and influencing skills
- CIPD Membership (ideally Chartered)
- Level 7 HR qualification or equivalent knowledge
Working Arrangements
This is a hybrid role. You will work primarily from home but will need to attend the London Office (Denmark Hill) once or twice per month and travel to services across England approximately once per month, with occasional overnight stays.
The postholder must live between London and Devon, in the South East of England, to ensure reasonable travel distances to both services and the London office.
Our Offer
In return, we offer a competitive and supportive benefits package, including:
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Westfield Healthcare Cash Back Plan (including cashback for optical, dental, therapies, plus 24/7 GP access and counselling support)
- Matched pension scheme up to 6% (with salary sacrifice option)
- Enhanced family leave from day one, including enhanced maternity/adoption and paternity pay
- Financial support options, including season ticket loans, emergency loans, mortgage advice and wellbeing support
- One paid volunteering day per year
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Discounted private medical insurance
- Support to learn and develop your career
How to apply
To apply, please submit your CV and supporting statement setting you how you meet the requirement of the role ( up to 2 pages) via our recruitment platform
Interviews will take place on 27 March at our London HQ (Denmark Hill)
We are proud to be an inclusive, supportive employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.