People Partner

Location: Cardale Park, Harrogate. A hybrid working option is available but it's important to us to have our team together on site for most of the week.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week although part time hours with a minimum of 30 hours per week across 4 days may be considered.

Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum FTE depending on experience.

Make a Difference Every Day At Oakdale, we believe in care that changes lives. For over 25 years, we've been delivering trusted, evidence-based therapies and assessments for children, young people, and adults. As a values-driven organisation, we work with the NHS, schools, local authorities, and private clients, always putting people first.

Now, we're looking for a People Partner to lead employee engagement and employee relations across the Group. If you're passionate about the employee experience, wellbeing, and making a genuine impact, we'd love to hear from you.

• Contribute significantly to Oakdale’s employee engagement strategy, including engagement surveys, listening groups and action planning.
• Champion Oakdale’s values and culture, designing initiatives that strengthen colleague voice, recognition and wellbeing.
• Lead and manage employee relations casework, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence management and dispute resolution, in line with the Acas Code of Practice and UK employment law.
• Provide expert advice, coaching and support to managers to help them handle ER matters fairly, confidently and consistently.
• Chair or advise on formal meetings and hearings as required, ensuring procedural fairness and appropriate documentation.
• Own the review, development and continuous improvement of HR policies and processes, ensuring they reflect best practice and current legislation.
• Contribute to the annual payroll budgeting process and annual pay review process.
• Ensure People function policies and processes meet CQC requirements, contributing to self-evaluation and inspection readiness.
• Line-manage a People Adviser, People Projects Coordinator and People Administrator, allocating work and supporting their development.
• Act as a trusted, credible partner to managers and senior leaders, providing pragmatic, commercially and legally sound HR advice.

We are looking to recruit an experienced HR professional with a strong track record in employee relations and engagement, ideally gained within health, social care or another regulated sector, who is confident coaching and influencing managers through difficult conversations and passionate about continuously improving how people experience work.

CIPD qualification (Level 5 or above), or equivalent experience.

• Substantial experience in an HR Partner role, with a strong track record of leading complex employee relations casework.
• Sound, up-to-date knowledge of UK employment law and the Acas Code of Practice.
• Experience designing and delivering employee engagement initiatives that lead to measurable improvement.
• Experience owning HR policy development and ensuring compliance and best practice.
• Experience of contributing to payroll budgeting and calculating annual pay review options.
• Experience line-managing and mentoring HR professionals.

• Experience working in a health, social care or other CQC-regulated sector.
• Experience partnering through organisational change, restructure or TUPE.