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

HCRG Care Group; Swindon; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare service provider in Swindon seeks a Senior HR Business Partner to develop strategic people plans and promote an inclusive culture. Key responsibilities include coaching managers, embedding organizational change, and using data to drive decision-making. Candidates should be CIPD Level 7 qualified with strong leadership and communication skills. A competitive salary of £55,000 - £60,000 is offered along with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Group pension

Private medical insurance

Access to discounts

Pay as you earn

Wellbeing support

eLearning access

Culture of innovation

Commitment to quality standards

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of employment legislation and workforce planning.
• Confident in building leadership capability.
• Adept at using people data for decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Develop tailored people plans to align with strategy.
• Coach managers on absence and performance management.
• Promote a positive and inclusive company culture.

Skills

CIPD Level 7 qualified

Change management

Leadership capability

Data analysis

Communication

Commercial acumen

Inclusion advocacy

Adaptability

Job description

Responsibilities

• 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 both cost and service quality.
• Champion a positive and inclusive culture, using colleague voice, surveys, and engagement tools to identify issues and co-create solutions with managers and teams.
• Provide visible presence across services, regularly travelling to sites and attending leadership and team meetings to offer hands‑on support and guidance.
• Use data and insights to inform decision‑making, identify people risks, and recommend pragmatic solutions that balance commercial and colleague needs.
• Work collaboratively with centres of excellence within the wider People team, ensuring policies, practices, and initiatives are consistently applied and adapted for local needs.
• Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing across all people practices, creating environments where colleagues feel supported, engaged, and able to thrive.
• Contribute to organisational performance by tracking ROI on people initiatives, ensuring people practices add value to both colleagues and service delivery.

If you are a seasoned HR professional with the credibility to influence senior leaders, the resilience to navigate complex environments, and the drive to make a tangible difference, then this is your opportunity to join us and leave a lasting mark on colleagues, services, and communities., We're looking for someone who can bring both credibility and pragmatism - a trusted partner who can balance strategic thinking with a hands‑on approach to building capability and embedding change., An experienced Senior HR Business Partner / OD leader with a proven track record of partnering senior stakeholders to deliver people strategies that drive performance and culture.

Qualifications

• CIPD Level 7 qualified (or equivalent experience), with strong knowledge of employment legislation, organisational development, and workforce planning.
• Skilled in embedding change - not just delivering transformation projects, but 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 - you'll know that sometimes the most meaningful impact happens in team meetings, on‑site with leaders, and in the moments where you can challenge and support face‑to‑face.
• Commercially astute, with the ability to balance organisational goals, colleague wellbeing, and service user needs.
• A values‑driven leader who champions inclusion, wellbeing, and engagement, creating the conditions where people can thrive.
• Resilient and adaptable, thriving in a complex and changing environment, and able to “connect the dots” across multiple services and priorities.

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're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide 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 we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Benefits

• £55,000 - £60,000 with group pension
• Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support - at locations across the country
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well 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 where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission