Job Title: People Business Partner, Care
Location: Home Based with regular national travel
Directorate: People and Organisational Development
Contract: Permanent, Full Time, 35 hours per week
Salary: £50,000 to £55,000 per annum


The Role

As a People Business Partner, Care your ability to partner People Managers and senior leaders to build people capability, plan and manage talent and develop approaches to achieve shared the charity's objectives, could have a real impact on people's lives.

At its heart, this charity is a people organisation. People who want to do the very best for others, while at the same time making the most of the opportunities and experiences, they offer them.

As a People Business Partner, Care you will be responsible for acting as the point of people expertise for your business area and implementing specific people approaches as part of wider people initiatives. This charity has six care homes spread across various locations, with circa 800 staff. Your understanding of the care environment, developments in the sector and impact this has on our people will be key.

If successful, the main duties of your role will be:
- Proactively act to gain in-depth knowledge of the work, practices, strategic goals, and challenges of their business area; build effective, trusted partner relationships with key stakeholders and parts of the charity.
- Ensure business area has developed workforce planning processes and workforce plans - considering both paid staff and volunteers - to meet the future strategic needs of the charity. These should reflect turnover trends, development paths and evolving strategic requirements.
- Work with key stakeholders, to understand their directorate objectives and how these will be achieved through our people. Work to gain open access to key decision-making forums within the business area.
- Work with business area to identify appropriate solutions, practices, and interventions to support their aims and People Strategy, anticipating short, medium, and long-term wide directorate, team, and individual development needs.
- Provide advice, data insights and analysis; bring proactive interventions to address identified issues in the business area and/or data insights, to deliver strategic planning and to provide thought leadership. Use the appropriate data insights to measure and evaluate the People interventions.

Please note this role will be home based with occasional travel to the charity's offices and with regular national travel.

Closing date: Friday 29th April 2022