People & Culture Advisor in Redhill

Full time – 36 hours per week. We offer hybrid working, with an expectation of around 2–3 days per week in the office. Flexibility is required to attend in‑person meetings and deliver inductions when needed.

If you’re ready to make a difference, then join us at Raven Housing Trust. We’re a leading social housing provider based in Redhill, Surrey with over 6,000 homes and are committed to investing in our homes and communities. Our culture statements form the principles for how we work and what we expect of one another whilst working together as One Raven.

Put Customers First in everything we do. We will Always Be Curious about how we can do better. We work together to Make It Happen.

You will play a key role in delivering a positive colleague experience across the employee lifecycle, with a focus on absence management, learning and development, colleague wellbeing and engagement. You will provide proactive expert advice and guidance to support the consistent application of policies and procedures and contribute to the delivery of people and culture initiatives and projects.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide practical and compliant HR advice across the employee lifecycle, with a focus on absence, capability, L&D, wellbeing, and engagement.
• Support managers to confidently handle people matters in line with policy and best practice.
• Manage and support absence processes, including Occupational Health referrals and return‑to‑work support.
• Deliver new joiner HR inductions, and support the design, coordination and implementation of learning and development initiatives and programmes.
• Contribute to the planning and facilitation of wellbeing, engagement, and EDI activities and initiatives.
• Support the development and delivery of People & Culture initiatives by maintaining policies and procedures and contributing to projects aligned to the People & Culture Strategy.
• Produce relevant and insightful people data and maintain accurate, compliant records.

What you’ll bring to Raven:

• CIPD Level 3 qualified or equivalent HR experience.
• Sound understanding of HR principles and UK employment law.
• Experience providing practical, day‑to‑day advice to managers.
• Experience facilitating or delivering people management training.
• Understanding of learning & development, wellbeing, and engagement best practice.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to build effective, trusting relationships quickly.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and contribute to project work.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Confident user of Microsoft 365 and HR or learning systems.
• DBS clearance will be required for this role.

What Raven will offer in return:

To create a great experience for our customers, we need to create a great experience for one another. What Raven offers goes beyond the ordinary, giving you the opportunity to join a community of people who share the same values and are passionate about making a difference.

Our reward package includes:

• Competitive salaries.
• Fantastic work/life balance with flexible working and generous leave entitlement.
• Strong focus on learning and development, with opportunities to grow your skills and career.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay.
• Funded health cash plan.
• Extensive wellbeing support.
• Voucher-based recognition scheme.
• Retail discounts.

Raven are focused on creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from all candidates, including minority ethnics, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities and long‑term health conditions, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio‑economic backgrounds.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we run a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants. If you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description for this position and would like to be considered under this scheme, please state this in your application.