We are now looking for a People Partnership Lead to play a pivotal strategic role in shaping how we collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including trade unions and colleague representative groups. This is a 12-month fixed-term role. While the role can be remote-based, it will require regular travel and in‑person visibility across the Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) region. This is not a traditional HR role. It sits at the heart of our employee collaboration framework, driving a progressive employment relations culture, enabling organisational change, and ensuring that colleague voice is meaningfully embedded into decision‑making.
Responsibilities
* Act as a strategic partner to senior leaders across the BSW region, building trusted relationships and ensuring effective stakeholder engagement.
* Develop and embed partnership frameworks and ways of working that balance colleague voice with organisational priorities.
* Lead and facilitate partnership forums, consultation, and engagement activity, ensuring open, transparent, and constructive dialogue.
* Work closely with the Employee Relations team to support organisational change, ensuring a consistent and joined‑up approach to consultation and communication.
* Use insight from colleague voice, stakeholder engagement, and data to identify themes, influence decisions, and shape partnership outcomes.
* Champion a positive partnership culture, strengthening leadership capability and promoting inclusive, values‑driven ways of working.
We’re looking for a credible and pragmatic leader who can build trust in complex environments; someone who combines strategic thinking with the ability to navigate sensitive conversations and drive meaningful partnership outcomes. An experienced People / HR / Employee Relations leader with a strong track record of working in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments.
Qualifications
* CIPD Level 7 qualified (or equivalent experience), with a solid understanding of UK employment legislation and partnership frameworks.
* Highly skilled in building and sustaining relationships with senior leaders and stakeholder groups, with the confidence to influence, challenge, and facilitate constructive dialogue.
* Experienced in working within unionised or partnership‑led environments, with a strong understanding of collective engagement and consultation (without needing to operate in a fully union‑led model).
* A confident facilitator, able to lead forums, negotiations, and discussions that balance organisational priorities with colleague voice.
* Insight‑driven, able to use colleague feedback, stakeholder input, and data to identify themes, anticipate risks, and shape decisions.
* Comfortable operating at pace in a complex and evolving environment, demonstrating resilience, sound judgement, and political awareness.
* A values‑driven leader who promotes inclusion, fairness, and psychological safety through all partnership activity.
* Visible and engaging in your approach, building credibility through presence, relationships, and consistency across the BSW region.
About the Company
At HCRG Care Group, we change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident company, so we work to provide facilities, work‑environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here.
As a People Partnership Lead, you will be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group, feeling valued and supported with exclusive rewards and benefits.
Benefits
* £55,000 – £60,000 with group pension
* Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists, including musculoskeletal and mental health support – at locations across the country
* Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location in Runcorn
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases such as grocery shopping, plus cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and your loved ones
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face‑to‑face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life‑management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring‑fenced innovation funding each year
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
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