Community Integrated Care
People Specialist
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Shape the Future of Our People and Services
Are you an experienced HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced, multi-site environment? Do you enjoy partnering with leaders, driving positive change, and making a real difference to employee engagement and organisational performance?
We're looking for a People Specialist to join our People Team, supporting operational leaders across a diverse geographical region. Working closely with the Senior People Business Partner, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering people initiatives that enhance colleague experience, support organisational growth, and enable our services to achieve outstanding outcomes.
This is a full-time permanent role to support a region from Derby down to the south coast so our ideal candidate will be based around the Midlands. However, we will consider candidates based in the south who are willing to travel. There is an expectation of regional travel as and when required and attendance at our head office in Widnes at least twice a year.
What is The Deal for You?
- Flexibility! You can work your full-time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments.
- Benefits: Retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme, and travel discounts through our benefits app.
- Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award-winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives possible.
- Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
- Dare to Learn: Access to our amazing online training platform where you can upskill taking a variety of courses and qualifications.
- Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys balancing strategic people projects with hands-on operational support and is passionate about developing leaders through coaching and partnership.
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As a Trusted People Partner You'll
- Support the delivery of the Regional People Plan, helping create an engaging and inclusive employee experience.
- Experience managing an HR caseload.
- Partner with Service Leaders and operational teams to provide expert people advice, coaching, and support.
- Lead and support organisational change initiatives including restructures, acquisitions, TUPE transfers, integration projects, and service growth.
- Work collaboratively with Recruitment colleagues and operational leaders to attract, recruit, and retain great people.
- Support managers in dealing with employee relations matters, ensuring consistent and timely resolution.
- Drive workforce planning and support talent, succession, and performance management activities across the region.
- Analyse and interpret people data, providing meaningful insights and reports that support informed decision-making.
- Champion a positive culture where colleagues feel supported, developed, and empowered to succeed.
What We’re Looking For
You'll be a confident and credible HR professional with experience supporting managers across multiple sites or a large, complex organisation.
Essential Requirements
- CIPD qualified (or equivalent professional qualification)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience in a People Advisor, People Specialist, or HR Business Partnering role
- Experience supporting multiple locations or a geographically dispersed workforce
- Strong knowledge of employee relations and HR best practice
- Experience partnering with managers to identify and plan workforce needs
- Ability to analyse data and translate insights into meaningful actions
- Excellent communication, coaching, and relationship-building skills
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to work independently
- Full driving licence and access to your own vehicle
Desirable
- Experience supporting recruitment and resourcing activity
- Experience working within a centralised HR Shared Services environment
- Experience supporting organisational change programmes
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- Builds trust and credibility quickly
- Coaches leaders to build confidence and capability
- Brings a practical, solutions-focused approach to challenges
- Is resilient, proactive, and highly organised
- Enjoys building strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders
- Has a genuine passion for people, performance, and organisational success
- Embraces change and helps others navigate it positively
Why Join Us?
This is more than a traditional HR role. It's an opportunity to directly influence culture, engagement, talent development, and organisational change across a region that makes a real difference to people's lives every day.
You'll join a supportive and collaborative People Team where your expertise will be valued, your ideas welcomed, and your career development encouraged.
Ready to make an impact?
Apply today and help us create exceptional workplaces where colleagues can thrive and deliver outstanding outcomes for the people we support.
Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.
Interested and want to know a bit more?
To find out more about our charity, check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zYkoj7x8s
We’re really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.
In our 2025 Colleague Engagement Survey, 59% (nearly 3,800) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +34.
The Employee Net Promoter Score is a measure of how willing our colleagues are to recommend us as a good place to work to their loved ones - and a score of +34 is considered a Very Good score when compared to global benchmarks set by hundreds of other organisations.
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