People and Culture Advisor

About The Role: Join us as a People and Culture Advisor and help shape a workplace where compassion and purpose thrive. This is a fast-paced, challenging role that will see you at the heart of our mission to support children’s mental health by building an inclusive, values-driven culture. You’ll provide first-line advice to managers, lead on key processes, and drive initiatives that enhance wellbeing, equity, and employee experience. If you’re passionate about people, thrive under pressure, and want to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you Key Responsibilities: Case Management & Employee Support Provide first-line advice to managers on performance, attendance, wellbeing, and ER issues. Manage sickness absence, probation reviews, and occupational health referrals. Conduct exit and stay interviews, and share insights with the People team. Policy & Process Maintain accurate records in HRIS (Cascade). Review and update people policies and toolkits to reflect best practice and organisational values. Ensure compliance with employment law and internal processes. Data & Insights Analyse HR data to identify trends and risks, and recommend improvements. Prepare reports on exit interviews, probation check-ins, and wellbeing initiatives. HR Support & Management Support redundancies, school exits, and TUPE transfers with accurate documentation and calculations. Provide guidance during consultations and organisational changes. Employee Experience & Inclusion Champion wellbeing and EDI initiatives, ensuring reasonable adjustments for colleagues with disabilities. Coordinate Employee Forum and EDI meetings, capturing actions and outcomes. Collaboration & Training Attend manager meetings and deliver training on people policies and practices. Work closely with People Partners and L&D to improve manager capability. You will need: CIPD qualified level 5 or equivalent experience Solid experience working in a People Advisor role, supporting colleagues, and following policies and procedures Good knowledge of UK employment Law Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills Proven experience of building meaningful relationships and contributing to the development of a positive employee experiences. Recruitment Process: As part of your application you will need to answer some shortlisting questions. Please answer these as fully as you can, we recommend using the STAR model. Situation, Task, Action Result. Closing date for applications: Midnight on 03/12/20251st Interview date: 10/12/2025 (Face to Face at Place2Be Farringdon office) Our Benefits When you work at Place2Be –whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising –every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support. Here’s just a few things we have on offer: Annual Leave that increases with service Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career 5% contributory pension scheme Life assurance of four times your annual salary A comprehensive employee assistance programme Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network) Wellbeing days to allow you some ‘you’ time Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organisation. We are proud to be a disability confident employer and will ask you during your application If you wish to be considered for a guaranteed interview under the disability confident scheme. Under the scheme we commit to offering an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria as outlined in the job role. If you have any questions about the scheme, or require any adjustments to help you complete an application then please contact the recruitment team on 020 7923 5050 or email jobs@place2be.org.uk We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may want to use it to help you format your CV, create responses to application questions or even help you prepare responses. AI can be a powerful enabler and we are open to you using it to apply for roles with us, but we ask you to ensure anything you submit truly represents your capabilities and viewpoint. We value honesty, integrity and creativity and want to understand what you will uniquely bring to our team. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.