Head of People
Belong, United Kingdom
Job Description
Our multi-award winning organisation is a pioneer of services for older people, creating vibrant village communities and specialising in supporting people to live well with dementia. With our continued expansion across the North West this is a very exciting time to join us!
As our Head of People you will be a confident, forward thinking and experienced Head of People ideally within multi-site organisations with a proven track record of developing and enhancing the People proposition to the wider organisation.
Based in the North West within our Central Office in Nantwich, Cheshire you will be working closely with the Chief Executive to continue to build an effective service. You will provide leadership and support to the central people teams, with responsibility for the HR, Recruitment and Lamp;D operations driving forward positive change and standardisation through quality improvement and innovative leadership.
As part of Belongs senior management team you will be a visible presence working collaboratively with the managers in the central service and village teams to build on our established sector position.
In return for your commitment we offer and excellent salary and benefits package. You can find more details for this role or request a full person specification by contacting the HR team on
Salary Circa 69,000
Closing Date: 30th November 2022.
Interview: Week commencing 5th December 2022.
We anticipate a high volume of applications for this role; therefore we reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.
We operate a hybrid working policy for our central services colleagues.
Requirements
JOB TITLE: Head of People
RESPONSIBLE TO: Chief Executive
Main Responsibilities
- To ensure that Belong has a best in class human resources and recruitment service with the aim that all our services are staffed adequately to deliver excellent quality care.
- To ensure that Belong has an excellent Learning and Development function and uses it to develop, embed and enhance our own approach and philosophy of care delivery.
- Driving effective leadership and capability across the operation ensuring the group has a committed, skilled and competent workforce that is motivated to learn, grow and perform along with a succession planning system to support a pipeline of development
- Effective use of management information and people key performance indicators to develop and implement effective people strategies ensuring alignment with the organisation’s strategic aims.
- Promote an exceptional and innovative culture of high employee engagement, equality amp; diversity, customer care, continuous learning and high performance in order to attempt to deliver best in industry employee retention rates
- Producing regular reports on the service for the Chief Executive and Board which cover assurance on performance progress against strategy and innovation.
- To keep up to date with statutory employment law and Health amp; Social Care regulations and ensure that Belong plan proactively for changes and implement solutions smoothly
- To ensure very effective ‘business partnering’ to our Villages and services who should be seen as our core customers for the team.
- To look outside of the care sector for approaches and ideas to bring to our service and to constantly monitor the approach of our key care competitors to ensure that we stay ahead of the competition.
- To act as the main contact with recognised Trade Unions, fostering a positive relationship.
- Effectively lead and allocate the organisation’s Human Resources and Learning and Development service adding value, delivering performance and managing risk.
- Conduct and reporting of data compliance audits in order to assess and measure compliance levels with data protection laws, including any required follow up. Management and allocation of Human Resources and Learning and Development budgets and finances.
- To represent Belong and our goals externally at important industry functions, conferences and events.
- To ensure that Belong maintains or exceeds our IIP gold status.
Supporting Responsibilities
- To oversee the recruitment and on-boarding functions of the organisation, ensuring talent is identified and attracted through effective resourcing practice
- To contribute to the development and updating of people-based systems, policies, procedures and practices helping to ensure that they are effective and comply with statutory employment law
- Identify, design, deliver and evaluate Learning and Development solutions that de