Leeds City College
HR Business Partner
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About The Role
Luminate Education Group is looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to join our team of five, reporting to the Deputy HR Director. Working within a hub model, you will partner with a diverse range of curriculum and non-curriculum teams across the organisation, building strong relationships and providing tailored HR support to meet their needs.
Working closely with senior leaders and managers, you will provide trusted, focused HR advice, support organisational change, and develop practical people solutions that help our teams and group to thrive.
Hybrid working is available for this role, with the main base at Park Lane Campus, centrally located in Leeds and providing a vibrant and accessible environment.
What You Will Do
- Support the delivery of the Group People Strategy by providing a trusted HR advice and partnering service for senior leaders and managers.
- Provide an effective HR Business Partner service, using workforce data and business information to identify needs and develop practical people solutions.
- Lead HR projects including organisational change, restructures, TUPE, and group-wide transformation programmes, ensuring policies and procedures are followed.
- Provide advice and support on complex employee relations matters, including Employment Tribunals, working with legal advisors where required.
- Coach and support managers in people management, workforce planning, talent and succession planning, helping to build strong and effective teams.
- Build positive relationships with trade unions and HR/OD colleagues, supporting a collaborative approach and contributing to the group’s aim of being an employer of choice.
About You
Qualifications:
- CIPD Level 5 qualified, with a willingness to work towards Level 7 and a strong commitment to continued professional development.
HR & Employment Relations:
- Strong knowledge of HR and OD best practice, employment law and employee relations, with experience managing complex cases including disciplinaries, grievances, performance, redundancy, restructuring, and TUPE.
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HR Business Partnering:
- Significant experience providing a customer-focused HR Business Partner service, working with leaders and managers to develop practical people solutions.
Projects & Change:
- Experience planning and delivering HR projects, organisational change, and transformation initiatives, with a focus on achieving positive outcomes.
Relationships & Communication:
- Skilled at building effective relationships with managers, colleagues, and trade unions, using coaching, influencing, and negotiation skills to achieve positive outcomes.
Analysis & Problem Solving:
- Able to analyse workforce information, manage complex issues, improve HR processes, and deliver cost-effective solutions in line with organisational priorities and KPIs.
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Darren Whitelaw (Deputy HR Director) on 07887 637587 or Darren.Whitelaw@luminate.ac.uk.
Benefits
The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
- Annual Leave: 44 days plus bank holidays
- Pension Schemes With Generous Employer Contributions:
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- People’s Pension Scheme
- CPD Opportunities:
- Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
- Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management Courses.
- Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
- Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus, and Cycle to work schemes.
- Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.
About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates, and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
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As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College, Keighley College, Leeds City College, Leeds Sixth Form College, Pudsey Sixth Form College, Leeds Conservatoire, and University Centre Leeds.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group, we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks, and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment is key to our Group’s values. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that embraces equality, diversity, and inclusion in all its forms, where every candidate is treated with fairness, respect, and equity.
Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure equal opportunities, remove bias, and promote a diverse talent pool. To find out more about what our commitment to EDI means to us, please Click here to learn more about our EDI objectives.
RECRUITMENT AGENCIES
We do not accept unsolicited CV’s and applications from agencies and will not be liable for any fee in connection with a candidate that has been submitted speculatively through any agency that has not been expressly instructed for a particular vacancy as part of our Preferred Supplier List.
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