People Business Partner (Part-time) in Dorchester

35254 per annum plus additional benefits (Full time equivalent salary 43480) 30 hours per week (Mon-Fri with Flexi-time) Permanent Role. Home-based with occasional travel. The closing date for applications: 27th November 2025 (Midday).

At Magna our vision is to create great homes together. We have ambitious plans and are seeking creative, aspirational and talented people to join our fast-paced, adaptable and highly collaborative environment.

The role & what you take care of:

• We are seeking an experienced and dedicated People Business Partner who takes ownership of tasks and empowers others to do the same, demonstrating confidence in communicating ideas and inspiring action through creative and innovative approaches.
• The ideal candidate will employ persistence, tenacity and diplomacy while championing the benefits of change, overcoming obstacles by utilising an engaging communication style to win hearts and minds at all levels of the organisation.
• Your commitment to delivering people-focused outcomes through data-driven insights and a comprehensive approach paired with your curiosity and proactive engagement in projects and work streams will ensure that colleagues' needs are prioritised during decision-making processes, enhancing and optimising the colleague lifecycle and experience.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of Magna's business areas to help deliver innovative and purposeful people solutions aligned with our long-term objectives.
• Analyse monthly metrics from systems such as Workday Peakon to proactively address issues, drive improvements and maintain data integrity through system optimisation and training.
• Coach and support managers on people processes to ensure legally compliant, consistent outcomes that support business goals including solutions for conduct, conflict, health and wellbeing matters.
• Collaborate with the wider people and leadership teams on workforce planning, structure design and fostering a positive workplace while maintaining professional relationships through networking and CPD events.

What you need to be successful:

• Demonstrated ability to proactively address and resolve a variety of issues, consistently seeking timely and effective solutions.
• Proven experience in partnering with managers at all organisational levels to implement people processes and projects that align with our values and enhance Magna's organisational culture and attributes.
• Excellent collaboration skills, actively sharing knowledge and best practice to achieve both individual and team objectives.
• An adaptable and discreet professional with comprehensive experience across all aspects of the role contributing to broader team initiatives such as ED&I, Wellbeing and Reward.
• Up-to-date knowledge of UK employment law and core people practices as advised by organisations such as ACAS is required.
• Applicants with transferable qualities are encouraged to apply.

Magna Benefits:

• Pension matched up to 8%.
• Employee assistance & Health Care Cash Plan.
• Learning and Development.
• Company sick pay.
• Wellbeing Portal and Colleague Voice.
• Mileage and Agile working.
• Paid day a year to volunteer.
• Rental / Stamp Duty Loan and Credit Union.
• Discounts on entertainment, high street shops and grocery shopping.
• Competitive annual leave entitlement which increases progressively with the duration of your service over the first five years.

Our full range of benefit details can be viewed on our website under each vacancy. Please contact Dani Davies, Talent Acquisition Manager. To apply please visit our website, select Careers Tab / Current Vacancies / Role or follow the link attached to this advert. Magna reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application early.

About us:

We're Magna Housing, a customer-centred housing association mainly working in Dorset and Somerset (our head office is in Dorchester) with a vision to create great homes together. We want to make sure that we constantly add value to the lives of our customers and our colleagues and we work hard to deliver this year on year. Our vision of Creating Great Homes Together is fundamental to the work we do and we have ambitious plans to be beyond the best over the next ten years. Magna prides itself on being large enough to influence but small enough to care. We are on an exciting journey, one that requires agility in how the business develops over the next decade and different innovative ways of working as we explore new territory.

Inclusion is important to us here at Magna and inclusion for everyone is our commitment to making long term and deep change to become an organisation known for being inclusive and welcoming for all. We won't achieve our vision, mission or strategy without being inclusive. It is the foundation of how we work, our culture and our values and how we adjust to make sure our customer and colleague experiences are welcoming and relevant. Our successes come through an appreciation of difference, different perspectives, experiences, thoughts, actions and skills. All of which add value and generate innovation. Embracing difference will enable us to get it right first time and offer the right homes in the right place for our customers.

Our values:

• Always safe - This means the safety of our colleagues and our customers is always our main priority.
• All about customers - This is our mindset and our team approach to putting customers at the heart of all we do.
• Be kind - This is about how we treat each other and how we go about our business.
• Own it - This is about how we all take responsibility for all our actions every day.
• One team - This is how we come together as #teammagna, embracing our diversity and recognising that together we can achieve outstanding results.
• Be curious - This is about how we learn about each other, our customers and our business. Learning helps make sure we all do the right thing, how we challenge convention and look beyond existing boundaries.