Job Title: Human Resources Business Partner
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: Circa £48,000 per annum
Location: Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1AZ
About Coram
Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people. We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.
Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
Today, we are a group of charities and charitable companies and have a strong reputation within the children’s care sector. Coram is a leader in adoption and fostering, children’s health education, therapy, child and family law, and advocacy for those in and leaving care. The organisation has grown rapidly in recent years, both in terms of income and staffing, making an exciting and interesting place to be.
Coram Group’s Human Resources team is multi-faceted, it sits at the heart of the organisation and has a reputation for excellent customer service and advice. We would welcome an enthusiastic and highly organised HR generalist who would be keen to grasp the challenge of working with a range of diverse partners across the organisation providing high quality and consistent people related advice and guidance whilst responding to and being mindful of operational needs.
As an HR Business Partner, you will:
* Work in partnership with Coram group leadership team and stakeholders to help shape, develop and deliver solutions in line with the needs and priorities of the organisation.
* Provide expert and professional advice and support to all staff and managers, ensuring all feel included, engaged, comfortable and equipped to fulfil their role.
* Drive organisation results and increase colleague engagement, by working with senior partners across the Coram group in support of the people and strategy/business plan
* Keep the organisation safe by identifying and managing risk.
* Work with the wider Human Resources (HR) team to develop and implement specific HR projects and policies linked with the people strategy.
What we are looking for:
* CIPD Qualified or qualified by experience with evidence of proactive CPD
* Experience of delivering solution focused professional HR generalist advice underpinned by up-to-date knowledge of legislation
* Ability to manage numerous projects across Business Units with conflicting deadlines and to prioritise workload accordingly
* Be skilled at working with data, drawing insight from analytics including HR systems; ability to run reports, manipulate data, and analyse information
* Proven experience of influencing and coaching managers through a wide range of employee relations issues
* Experience of managing change - redundancy, TUPE and culture.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing Date: Monday 17th November 2025 at 12pm
Interview Date: Thursday 27th & Friday 28th November 2025
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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