HR Manager

Avalon Group; Harrogate; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Avalon Group is an award-winning, not-for-profit adult social care provider supporting people across Yorkshire and the North East. We are seeking a hands-on HR Manager to lead the HR team’s development and deliver a high-quality HR service from our Harrogate office.

Flexible home-working may be possible by agreement once the team is established. The role focuses on bringing the HR and recruitment teams together around clear priorities, leading complex employee relations, and ensuring robust

Qualifications

• Lead complex employee relations matters with confidence, fairness and sound judgement.
• Create a responsive recruitment and onboarding service.
• Ensure pre-employment checks, contracts and starter information are completed quickly and accurately.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex employee relations matters with confidence and fairness.
• Coach managers and build confidence in people management.
• Improve HR processes, data and ways of working.
• Help move the function from reactive problem-solving towards prevention and continuous improvement.

Skills

HR management

Employee relations

People leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Are you an experienced HR professional who knows how to bring a team together, build confidence and turn good intentions into a consistently excellent HR service?

Avalon Group is an award-winning, not-for-profit adult social care provider supporting people across Yorkshire and the North East. Our vision is simple but powerful: the people we support will achieve their best life experience.

We’re looking for a hands-on and values-led HR Manager to play a pivotal role in the next stage of our HR team’s development.

This is a brilliant opportunity to:

• Bring the HR and recruitment team together around clear priorities and shared standards
• Lead complex employee relations matters with confidence, fairness and sound judgement
• Create a responsive recruitment and onboarding service
• Ensure pre-employment checks, contracts and starter information are completed quickly and accurately
• Remove avoidable delays while maintaining strong safer recruitment standards
• Ensure new colleagues feel informed, prepared and welcomed from day one
• Coach managers and build their confidence in managing people
• Improve HR processes, data and ways of working
• Help move the function from reactive problem-solving towards prevention and continuous improvement

You’ll be commercially aware and risk-conscious, but you’ll never lose sight of the people affected by your decisions.

Because a key part of this role is building a connected, confident and effective team, you’ll be largely based at our Harrogate office initially. Once the team is established and functioning well, home-working flexibility will be available by agreement.

If you’re a credible, approachable HR leader who combines kindness with constructive challenge, we’d love to hear from you.

Closing Date for application: 29th October 2026. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications, so early applications are encouraged.

Please note: We are managing this recruitment directly and will not accept agency applications or approaches. Any unsolicited CVs submitted by recruitment agencies will be treated as a free gift, and no fee will be payable.