HR Business Partner / People Manager

at  Carers Trust Mid Yorkshire

ABOUT THE ORGANISATION

At Carers Trust Mid Yorkshire, we are committed to providing respite care for unpaid carers, offering them much-needed breaks by stepping in to care for their loved ones. Our mission is to provide the highest quality services to unpaid carers in Kirklees, Calderdale, Leeds and Wakefield no matter their needs, background, culture or preferences.
Carers Trust Mid Yorkshire offers a rewarding experience and the opportunity to work with a team dedicated to making a real difference in our community.

THE ROLE

We are looking to recruit a professional, responsive HR Business Partner to join us at an exciting and pivotal stage in our development. Building on good foundations, you will provide sound, accurate and consistent HR advice, delivering quality people management aligned to our ethos, values and business ambitions. The HR Business Partner will work with the CEO and senior team to achieve strategic objectives in accordance with the requirements of the Trustees and stakeholders.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The HR Business Partner will be instrumental in supporting people strategy initiatives and providing first-line HR guidance across the organisation, whilst ensuring compliance with employment law and company policies, updating procedures as necessary.
· Work with the CEO to build a sound people strategy, interpreting policies effectively and working closely with the Senior Leadership Team to create a competent, flexible and safe workforce to meet the needs of the business.
· Acting as the first point of contact, provide policy-driven guidance, advising and providing proactive support to enable the business to meet its operational objectives.
· Lead on and support recruitment, resource planning and talent management, including appropriate succession planning, learning and development.
· Provide expert guidance in all HR matters, ensuring an effective level of people management practice.
· Champion employee engagement, equality, diversity and inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
· Manage the organisation’s training programme to ensure compliance with CQC requirements.
· Enhance and embed HR policies and processes to manage employee performance, providing expert HR advice and guidance on managing performance, recognising high performance and supporting areas of underperformance.
· Drive compliance with people strategy and ensure effective management and resolution of disciplinary and grievance practices, embedding learning outcomes into practice.
· Interpret, articulate and deliver workforce requirements for the short, medium and longer term needs of the organization, providing insights and feedback to influence the wider people strategy.
· Deliver people-centred change management initiatives.
· Implement and manage policy driven absence management.