HR People Partner

**Vision and Values**

At The Care Collective, we have been championing and working with unpaid carers for over 30 years as one of the largest charities in Wales, with around 140 colleagues and a £4m turnover.

We are passionate about supporting people who help others without getting paid. Many organisations will call people who do this “Unpaid Carers” or “Carers” but we feel this doesn’t clearly describe what people actually do.

As a collective, we change unpaid carers lives by delivering a wide range of services, including respite and care, advice and support services across ten local authority areas in South Wales. Each and every one of us has the potential to do amazing things in our work, which means we can enrich the lives of the unpaid carers we support, their loved ones and throughout the communities we work in, which accounts for 50% of the total number of unpaid carers across Wales.

We know that we are better working together as a collective. In the face of ever-increasing demands and reducing resources, we rise to the challenge and think creatively about how we deliver our services. We are caring, passionate, ambitious and inclusive.

**Main Purpose of the Role**

The HR People Partner will lead and be responsible for developing people services and processes that support the growth and ambitions of the organisation. The role will lead on and facilitate change, working with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure the organisations meets its strategic aims in line with its culture and brand values.

Our employees conduct a wide variety of roles (from home care, to advice services, to corporate functions) on a variety of contract terms but we aim for consistency, fairness and equality in pay, benefits, rewards and recognition. This role will support that, as well as developing the engagement of staff and culture of the organisation.

**Key Accountabilities and responsibilities for establishing standards**
- Actively lead and develop a range of day to day People Services for the employee lifecycle (Recruitment, Learning and Development, Employment Relations, Total Reward and Transactional HR) to support the organisation to achieve its aims in line with the strategic objectives.
- Lead a small team and work closely with finance team in particular (who manage the payroll function) to ensure efficient HR/people practices are in place to benefit all employees.
- Develop and implement a range of legally compliant people and organisational practices, policies and procedures to ensure that our managers and employees are best supported and that any issues are dealt with effectively and appropriately ensuring our working environment is positive, productive and inclusive.
- Own, deliver and cascade organisational HR activities in a motivated and passionate manner, so that important messages and changes are embedded successfully and teams feel engaged, informed and part of a strong team with a great culture.
- To proactively lead, identify and escalate, potential HR risks and their mitigation to ensure that the best interests of the organisation and its people are always maintained.
- Develop and support the organisations workforce plans, providing sound advice to Leaders and Managers.
- Creating and provide regular reports using staff data in accordance with policies and procedures for the Chief Executive, Leadership Team and Board.
- Empower and engage the Leadership Team and Managers through the people services to do their very best work and create an environment and culture that promotes The Care Collective as a great place to work.
- Embed a people culture through all people services to enable the organisation become an employer of choice.
- Develop better partnerships and relationships by being caring, ambitious, passionate and inclusive, in line with service strategic objectives.
- Driving digital improvement and infrastructure process throughout the HR function to best support our service delivery, in line with identified strategic objectives.
- Ensure we meet the contractual requirements of our employees and funders, achieving HR quality and compliance in line with strategic objectives.
- Ensure all transactional HR services are documented and recorded in accordance with GDPR regulations.

**Knowledge**
- HR qualification e.g CIPD level 7 or equivalent qualification

Essential
- Sound knowledge of employment law and HR operational practices

Essential

Essential
- Knowledge of Health and Safety /Risk Management

Desirable
- Knowledge of equality, diversity and inclusion, equal opportunities

Essential
- Training qualification e.g. PTTLS

Desirable

**Experience**
- Experience of leading and working in a team, collaborating on shared objectives, whilst taking responsibility for People Services.

Essential
- Proven track record in HR and change management.

Essential
- Experienced in supporting managers, developing ideas and solving problems.

Essential
- Experience of contributing