HR Partner

Closing Date: Tuesday 4th August 2026

Join CrossCountry and Help Shape the Employee Experience

Are you an experienced HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced, operational environment? Do you enjoy building strong relationships, providing practical people advice, and navigating complex employee relations challenges?

At CrossCountry, we're looking for an HR Partner to play a key role in supporting our managers and colleagues across the business. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact by delivering expert HR guidance, fostering positive industrial relations, and helping create an inclusive and high-performing workplace.

Working within a highly unionised environment, you'll partner with managers, employees, and Trade Union representatives to ensure fair, consistent, and legally compliant people practices that support both our colleagues and our business objectives.

What You'll Be Doing

As an HR Partner, you'll be at the heart of our people operations, providing trusted advice and support across a broad range of HR activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the first point of contact for managers and employees, providing professional advice on HR policies, employment law, and people-related matters.
• Manage a diverse portfolio of employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, attendance, capability, performance, and investigation processes.
• Support and coach managers through complex people matters, ensuring decisions are fair, consistent, and aligned with company policies and employment legislation.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with Trade Union representatives, supporting consultation, local negotiations, and the early resolution of issues.
• Provide expert guidance on terms and conditions, contracts, policies, and procedural changes.
• Support organisational change initiatives, including restructures, TUPE transfers, role redesign, and consultation activities.
• Maintain accurate HR records, case documentation, and management information to support reporting, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Contribute to workforce planning activities through analysis of absence, turnover, and workforce trends.
• Lead proactive absence management activity, supporting complex and long-term cases, and coordinating Occupational Health referrals where appropriate.
• Partner with HR Support and Resourcing teams to support recruitment, onboarding, probation management, contractual changes, and employee lifecycle activities.
• Deliver training and coaching to managers on employee relations, HR policies, and people management best practice.
• Champion a culture of inclusion, wellbeing, fairness, and employee engagement.
• Ensure all HR activities are compliant with employment legislation, data protection requirements, and company policies.