People Partner (HR)

People Partner (HR)

Chippenham

Salary - £45,000 - £50,000 (+ £2,500 Car Allowance) per annum 

Contract type – Permanent

Working hours – Full Time

Our client develops a range of new homes – for rent, shared ownership, and sale – while also providing housing management, care and support, and commercial property services.

They increase the opportunities for people to thrive by giving them access to great homes and services to match. This supports the creation of strong and vibrant communities.

Our client makes a difference to people’s lives – and this is something they want to continue doing, for more people, every day, and they have ambitious plans to simplify and modernise their organisation, to become a simply brilliant landlord.

About the role 

They now have an exciting opportunity for a new People Partner to join their People Team to support business operations functions. 

As a People Business Partner, you will lead the customer facing side of HR as an ambassador for the People team. Your core purpose will be to provide strategic and commercial HR support to the business area functions in order to deliver the local and corporate business plans.

You will be passionate and proactive in supporting the People Director and Head of People to implement the people strategy in your business areas and work with the wider people team to ensure that the people function provides a simply brilliant service to its customers.

You will support directors and heads of functions with complex employee relations issues to mitigate business risks. You will also identify business risk areas and work with your directors and heads of functions to put together a plan to sustain an improvement.

About you 

It is essential that you hold a Masters level qualification in Human Resources Management or have equivalent experience.

To succeed in this role you must have demonstrable working knowledge of people policies, processes, legislative requirements and best practice and have demonstrable knowledge of current employment legislation.

You will have exceptional communication skills across a broad range of stakeholders and the ability to flex communication style to the appropriate audience. Strong influencing skills and the ability to collaborate cross functionally is essential for this role.

Benefits

In support and recognition of their colleagues who will help them to deliver their employer strategy, they offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes; annual holiday entitlement (plus statutory bank holidays); a defined contribution pension scheme; trust based flexible working and a Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).

All individuals who apply to work there are considered on their merits in line with their Diversity and Inclusion strategy and policy.

Our client is a Disability Confident Employer therefore they actively encourage applications from individuals with disabilities and try to provide access, adjustments, equipment or other practical support where required. All applicants with a disability who meet the ‘essential eligibility criteria’ for the role, as detailed in the job description, are guaranteed an interview.

If you need any assistance, adjustments or adaptations throughout our selection processes please let us know. 

Closing Date – 14 December 2020

Interview Date - TBC