HR People Partner

**About You**

An exciting opportunity has opened for an experienced HR People Partner to join our high-performing team at McCarthy Stone.

You will bring proven experience in leading the delivery and execution of HR and People strategies, with a solid grounding in UK Employment Law. Additionally, you will have a strong track record of providing expert guidance to managers on all aspects of Employee Relations, including performance and absence management, disciplinary procedures, and grievance handling.

Your deep understanding of employment law, people metrics, and best practices will empower you to influence and drive key initiatives, from employee relations to talent management, fostering a culture of engagement and high performance.

We are looking for a CIPD-qualified HR professional who embodies our values and excels at building strong, meaningful relationships with stakeholders and colleagues.

**Benefits**

**Financial**:

- Competitive salary and bonus scheme
- Company pension scheme
- Choice of Company Car or Car Allowance
- Life Assurance
- Professional Subscriptions paid for

**Lifestyle/Health & Wellbeing**:

- 24 days holiday (rising to 28) plus Bank Holidays
- 2 fully paid volunteering days per year (supported by the McCarthy Stone Foundation)
- Health benefits such as Private Healthcare (Employee Only) Remote GP, 24/7 access to EAP Services (including counsellors and legal advisors) and eyecare voucher
- Cycle to work scheme
- Colleagues Benefit Booklet with a range of store offers discounts and promotions
- Family Friendly Policies
- Excellent development opportunities

**The Role**

As People Partner you will be responsible for the delivery of an HR People Partner service and specifically Employee Relations Case Management to dedicated client groups working with a variety of stakeholders both face to face and virtually, ensuring the provision of a high level of HR Service to the business.

You will lead on the delivery of the People Plan to ensure we are driving engagement, retention, D&I and people development whilst engaging, empowering and influencing stakeholders within your business area and wider Your McCarthy Stone team.

You will advise, guide and support colleagues and managers by providing high level people management and development support across designated business areas; whilst being comfortable offering advice and influence to all levels of seniority.

You will lead on HR projects, taking ownership, management and delivery of key business initiatives from end to end and will work with the Talent Acquisition team to support the attraction, recruitment and selection for key roles across our developments and Support Functions.

You will work with the Reward team to ensure pay and benefits align to the marketplace by undertaking regular benchmarking and analysis as well as leading on the annual pay review process.

We have adopted a hybrid way of working this role will require travel across the South.

**Benefits**

**Financial**:

- Competitive salary and bonus scheme
- Company pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Professional Subscriptions paid for

**Lifestyle/Health & Wellbeing**:

- 24 days holiday (rising to 28) plus Bank Holidays
- 2 fully paid volunteering days per year (supported by the McCarthy Stone Foundation)
- Health benefits such as Remote GP, 24/7 access to EAP Services (including counsellors and legal advisors) and eyecare voucher
- Cycle to work scheme
- Colleagues Benefit Booklet with a range of store offers discounts and promotions
- Family Friendly Policies

**Your Attributes**

**You will have**:

- Experience of working in a fast-paced generalist HR Business Partnering role
- Experience of managing an ER case workload including complex cases
- CIPD Qualified
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to deal with competing priorities to manage escalations and deliver to deadlines
- Able to constructively challenge and influence stakeholders

**You will bring**:

- A collaborative team player who is not afraid to get stuck into the detail and be hands-on when needed
- Responds positively to a high-pressure environment and able to adapt to changes quickly
- Customer focused and service orientated
- Highly organised with strong time management and planning skills
- Tenacious and results driven with strong problem solving
- Ability to use own initiative and think outside the box
- Professional and approachable
- Resilient and able to cope with competing priorities and work demands
- Can do approach and self sufficientAs the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.

We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched