HR Business Partner (People Partner)

Catch22; Sevenoaks; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a People Partner, where you will play a crucial role in enhancing HR services and supporting business development. This role involves providing expert HR advice, fostering relationships across teams, and influencing senior management to improve people capability and performance. With a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, you will help create a high-performance culture while ensuring compliance with employment law and best practices. If you are passionate about making a difference and driving positive change within an organization, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Pension scheme with matching contributions

Discounted shopping opportunities

Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge of employment law and HR best practices.
• Excellent understanding of TUPE regulations and their implications.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive HR service and specialist coaching to business areas.
• Support employee relations, development, and engagement initiatives.

Skills

Employment Law Knowledge

HR Best Practices

TUPE Regulations

Organisational Development

Health & Safety Awareness

Job description

Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.

We achieve this in two ways. First, we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we use our knowledge to change 'the system', to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help. With the heart of a charity and the mindset of a business, we are uniquely placed to deliver on this challenging agenda.

The People Team works across the employee life cycle, providing advice, coaching, and support on recruitment and onboarding, engagement, performance management, talent development, pay and benefits, learning and development, employee relations, health and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, and day-to-day admin and transactional support.

Our people vision to make Catch22 a great place to work underpins our approach.

Job Description

As the People Partner for Catch22, you will provide a proactive and forward-thinking HR service to the business and operate as an internal consultant, influencing, identifying, and maximising opportunities to improve people capability and performance.

You will be responsible for supporting your business areas by providing specialist coaching, support, and advice that enables our business development and senior management to effectively deliver their people and business plans.

You will be responsible for giving specialist HR advice in relation to all HR policies and procedures in accordance with best practice, current and proposed employment legislation, and local arrangements, and support the delivery of the HR Strategy and evolving partnering model.

You will develop and maintain excellent working relationships across the People Team, the operational Hubs that you support, as well as the rest of the business by offering challenge and influence at senior manager level, fostering a high-performance culture.

You will support the business in key areas of employee relations, development, reward, engagement, and resourcing, providing key business support to services nationally.

You will provide business support to nominated business areas and provide cover to other business areas as needed.

Minimum Requirements

• Comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge of employment law and HR best practice, and the practical implications for the management of the employment relationship.
• Excellent and up-to-date knowledge of TUPE regulations, processes, risks, and opportunities.
• Awareness of current developments in the HR field.
• Understanding of organisational development processes and interventions.
• Awareness of Health & Safety practice as it relates to HR.

Additional Information

Salary: Up to £50,000 FTE per annum dependent on experience

Contract: Full Time, 37 hours per week.

Location: Brasted, Kent, some flexibility with location and home working arrangements. Travel to national sites is required

• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays, rising to 33 days with service.
• Pension scheme with matching contributions of up to 4%
• Discounted shopping opportunities

Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

At Catch22, we value equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.