People Partner
35 hours a week, Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm
£19.36 - £25.49 per hour + holiday pay depending on experience
Week on week ongoing for around 3 months (with the potential to move to a FTC depending on performance)
Based in Abbey Wood
Our client is looking for an experienced people partner to provide a comprehensive, high-quality people service across all areas of their business.
You will work closely with managers and senior leaders, building strong, trusted relationships and developing a deep understanding of operational challenges. You’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering both operational and strategic people initiatives aligned with the business vision and strategy.
This is a varied and influential role, offering the opportunity to lead on complex employee relations matters, recruitment and workforce development, policy development, organisational change and people-focused projects.
Key Responsibilities
Employee Relations
- Provide expert advice and guidance on complex employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence and welfare matters
- Support and advise managers through investigations, hearings and change processes, ensuring consistency and legal compliance
- Coach and influence managers to build effective people management and leadership capability
- Lead and participate in meetings involving sensitive and complex information
- Produce reports and analysis for senior leaders and wider organisational use
Employment Services
- Lead on recruitment and selection processes, advising managers on legislation, best practice and organisational procedures
- Develop recruitment, retention and workforce development strategies
- Promote equality, diversity and inclusion across all People practices
- Participate in Agenda for Change job evaluation and matching panels
Training, Organisational Development & Projects
- Design and deliver training and development interventions linked to organisational needs
- Contribute to workforce planning and organisational development initiatives
- Support People-led projects, KPIs and continuous improvement activity
General
- Ensure People policies and procedures reflect current legislation and organisational values
- Maintain accurate HR records and HRIS data
- Work closely with Finance on sickness absence management and reporting
- Support staff survey analysis and action planning
- Maintain confidentiality and data protection at all times
About You
You will be a credible, confident HR professional with significant experience in a generalist People role, ideally within a healthcare or complex organisational setting.
You will have:
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience, or CIPD Level 5–7
- Strong, up-to-date knowledge of employment law and HR best practice
- Proven experience managing complex employee relations cases
- Experience delivering training and supporting organisational change
- Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills
- The ability to remain calm under pressure and handle sensitive situations with professionalism and empathy
- Experience of Agenda for Change, HRIS systems and working in a healthcare or public sector environment is desirable.
If this sounds like the role for you, apply now!
*Braundton Consulting is a recruitment agency recruiting on behalf of a client.
