People Partner (ER, HR & L&D) – Travel to Care Homes

Welford Healthcare; Emsworth; Presencial; GBP 65.000 - 95.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Welford Healthcare seeks a People Partner (ER, HR and L&D) to support our care homes from the Wheathampstead head office, with travel to regional homes. You will deliver a proactive people strategy, strengthening home managers' people management capability, improving recruitment and retention, and reducing agency usage while ensuring compliance.

You will lead employee relations, recruitment, talent development, and policy implementation, collaborating with senior leadership to drive

Responsabilidades

• Partner with home managers to deliver HR strategies aligned to business objectives and high standards of care.
• Provide proactive, hands-on HR advice across performance management, employee relations, absence management, capability, and wellbeing.
• Lead all employee relations activity, including disciplinary, grievance, and absence processes, ensuring consistency and legal compliance.
• Manage and support end-to-end recruitment and onboarding, ensuring timely, cost-effective hiring of high-quality care and support staff.
• Drive workforce planning and internal talent development to reduce agency reliance and improve staffing stability.
• Design and implement retention and engagement initiatives, including recognition, wellbeing support, flexible working, and career progression pathways.
• Identify trends and root causes of turnover, absence, and agency usage, implementing practical improvement plans.
• Ensure compliance with UK employment law, CQC requirements, and internal HR policies and procedures.
• Review, update, and embed HR policies and best-practice people processes across the homes.
• Monitor and analyse HR metrics (turnover, absence, recruitment, agency spend) and provide clear insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Support training, induction, and development initiatives to build capability, improve performance, and support long-term retention.
• Act as a coach and mentor to managers, improving confidence and capability in people management.

Descripción del empleo

Welford Healthcare seeks a People Partner (ER, HR and L&D) to support our care homes from the Wheathampstead head office, with travel to regional homes. You will deliver a proactive people strategy, strengthening home managers' people management capability, improving recruitment and retention, and reducing agency usage while ensuring compliance.

You will lead employee relations, recruitment, talent development, and policy implementation, collaborating with senior leadership to drive