Senior People and Culture Lead (12-month Maternity Cover)

NHS; Bath; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An exceptional healthcare services provider based in Bath is seeking a Senior People & Culture Lead for a 12-month maternity cover. The successful candidate will act as a strategic partner to Regional Directors and develop tailored people plans aligned with organizational strategies. Key qualifications include strong experience as an HR Business Partner, CIPD Level 7, and skills in change management. This role offers a competitive salary of £55,000 – £60,000 with a range of benefits, including private medical insurance and access to wellness support.

Benefits

£55,000 – £60,000 salary

Private medical insurance

Access to discounts via My Reward Hub

Wages access as earned

Online and face-to-face wellbeing support

Access to eLearning and career pathways

Innovation funding support

Commitment to clinical and quality standards

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Senior HR Business Partner or OD leader.
• Proven track record of partnering senior stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of employment legislation and workforce planning.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner to Regional Directors.
• Develop and deliver people plans aligned with organizational strategy.
• Coach and support managers to strengthen leadership capability.

Skills

People strategy development

Stakeholder engagement

Organisational change management

Coaching and mentoring

Data analysis and insights

Communication and influencing

National travel

Education

CIPD Level 7 qualification or equivalent

Job description

Job Summary

We are sharing this opportunity across a number of job boards and in different locations to reach as many potential applicants as possible. However, this is one single position so wherever you see it, it’s the same great role. At HCRG Care Group we believe our people are at the heart of delivering excellent care and driving sustainable change. We’re proud to deliver vital health and care services across the country and are looking for one exceptional Senior People & Culture Lead to join us at a pivotal time. This opportunity is offered as a 12‑month maternity cover, making it ideal for an experienced People & Culture professional who enjoys stepping into complex environments, making an immediate impact, and delivering meaningful change. You will work closely with our Regional Directors.

Main Duties of the Job

Act as a strategic partner to Regional Directors, building trusted relationships and ensuring people strategies directly support operational and service delivery goals.

Develop and deliver tailored people plans for each region, aligned with organisational strategy, KPIs, and local priorities. Embed organisational change – ensuring that recent transformation programmes are sustained, capability is built, and managers feel confident in leading new ways of working.

Coach and support managers to strengthen leadership capability, particularly in areas such as absence management, performance management, and employee engagement.

Create clear links between people data and business outcomes, helping leaders understand how areas such as absence, agency usage, and retention impact service performance.

Benefits

• £55,000 – £60,000 with group pension
• Private medical insurance with fast access to specialists including for musculoskeletal problems and mental health support across the country.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving access to discounts on everyday purchases, cashback, and voucher offers.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face‑to‑face help with mental and physical wellbeing through healthy recipes, activity challenges, post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life‑management help, career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture encouraging the implementation of ideas backed by at least £100,000 of ring‑fenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with majority of services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

Qualifications

• An experienced Senior HR Business Partner / OD leader with a proven track record partnering senior stakeholders to deliver people strategies that drive performance and culture.
• CIPD Level 7 qualified (or equivalent experience), with strong knowledge of employment legislation, organisational development, and workforce planning.
• Skilled in embedding change – ensuring changes are sustained through capability building, coaching, and cultural alignment.
• Highly confident in building manager and leadership capability, particularly around absence management, performance, engagement, and succession planning.
• Adept at using people data and insights to influence decision‑making, spot risks, and link people practices to service KPIs (e.g. absence rates, agency spend, staff survey outcomes).
• A strong communicator and influencer, able to build trust quickly with Regional Directors and senior managers with very different leadership styles.
• Comfortable with regular national travel and maintaining a visible presence across services.
• Commercially astute, balancing organisational goals, colleague wellbeing, and service user needs.
• A values‑driven leader who champions inclusion, wellbeing, and engagement.
• Resilient and adaptable, thriving in a complex and changing environment, and able to connect the dots across multiple services and priorities.

About Us

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, providing facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular and may need to close earlier than the posted date. If you’re keen to join, we’d love to hear from you as soon as possible.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. It will be necessary to submit a Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer Details

HCRG Care Group

HCRG Care Group, Bath, Avon BA2 5RP

Website: https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/