People Partner

**About The Role**:
**PEOPLE PARTNER - SOCIAL CARE & EDUCATION**

**Location** - Hybrid (home working / averaging 3 days per week on site)

**Salary** - £45,000 - £55,000 + car allowance

We are recruiting for People Partners, a brand-new role as we go through an exciting period of growth and innovation.

You will partner leaders and managers and the job families they represent in building future capability across Kisimul. You will deliver this through building trusted business relationships and intelligence that help people leaders to be brilliant and enable colleagues and the organisation to flourish.

You will promote collaboration that builds a connected way of working and role model business partnering within the wider people team. You will also deliver the strategic people plan prioritising issues to address both immediate and longer-term challenges. Contribute to the whole colleague lifecycle from ‘looking in’ to ‘moving on’.

**Who are we?**

We are one of the UK’s leading providers of education and support for children and adults with autism, learning disabilities and complex needs. Our specialist schools and adult provisions offer award-winning care and education (we were recently honoured at the Great British Care Awards).

We are independent, which we believe helps us achieve and maintain the very highest standards of care and we have recently launched our ground breaking and industry first Meaningful Life model.

Providing care and education to people we support is at the centre of all our decision making, with the ambition to enable them to fulfil their most meaningful life.

We bring all our specialist teams together from education, therapies and care and put the people we support right in the centre of our family of experts to deliver a meaningful life.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Understanding our Meaningful Life business model, vision strategy and plans; being skilled at understanding how our organisation operates, how we create value, our strategic drivers and our values
- Undertake functional OD reviews and review workforce plans with business leaders.
- Use people and business data analytics, performance, and informal feedback to identify and address opportunities for continuous improvement; ensuring leaders understand the drivers of employee engagement and the relationship between these and organisational performance
- Take the leading position within an identified service area for internal communications enabling colleagues to feel informed, connected and engaged
- Role model and support the service leadership team to develop an inclusive culture that addresses inequality
- Support your service area leaders in building robust and effective talent and succession plans to ensure the organisation has the right resource, capability, and talent to achieve immediate and strategic ambitions
- Ensure alert colleague listening and engagement at service level resulting in a strong relationship between the organisation, it’s leaders, managers and colleagues
- Generate and align people data with business intelligence data to inform decision-making
- Embed a coaching and mentoring culture in support of the learning strategy
- Develop robust business unit resourcing plans

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**What you’ll need**
- CIPD qualified or equivalent experience
- Proven experience in a similar capacity within the sector (social care or education)is an advantage.
- Strong knowledge and previous experience of the accountabilities within this portfolio.
- Good business acumen and commerciality, understanding finance principles, risk and reward and business outcomes.
- Experienced in operating model, organisational design and leading change.
- An understanding of the key drivers of employee engagement and how to coach leaders to understand and drive business value from them.

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**What’s in it for you?**

A fantastic team within the community at Kisimul to share, learn and facilitate

Access to more than 15,000 discounts through our blue light card discount scheme such as 10% off Asda shopping

Working with a business that is investing in workplace wellbeing and supporting our teams through the challenges of work and life

An atmosphere which is rich and diverse and celebrates culture, age, diversity and gender

A competitive salary

Pension and life assurance