People Services Manager – Compliance
Location: Homeworking with time spent at our Bradford Office
Salary: circa. £60,000 per annum
Permanent, full time hours per week
We're looking for an experienced People Services Manager to lead our compliance function within the People & Culture team. This is a key role ensuring that our People policies, processes, and systems not only meet legal and regulatory requirements but also enable a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and audit-readiness.
You'll oversee governance, risk, policy management, data compliance, and People systems — driving improvements that enhance efficiency and colleague experience while ensuring we remain fully aligned to employment law and regulatory standards.
What you'll be doing
* Leading and developing a high-performing team of People specialists with a strong compliance and customer focus.
* Overseeing the People policy framework, ensuring policies are legally compliant and reflect best practice.
* Horizon scanning for employment law and regulatory changes and embedding them into business-as-usual operations.
* Maintaining the People & Culture risk register and ensuring audit readiness across the directorate.
* Coordinating responses to internal and external audits and embedding learnings into processes.
* Ensuring People processes meet data protection standards (including GDPR) and conducting regular audits of HR data quality.
* Driving digitalisation and automation of People processes to improve efficiency and colleague experience.
* Contribute to setting the strategic direction for People systems in alignment with organisational goals.
* Leading on People systems governance, ensuring data integrity, security, and alignment with organisational goals.
* Leading on the creation of compliance dashboards and reports, providing actionable insights to senior leadership.
* Acting as the subject matter expert on all People compliance matters, supporting training and awareness campaigns.
What we're looking for
* CIPD qualified (or equivalent HR qualification/experience).
* Strong knowledge of UK employment legislation, HR compliance, and governance.
* Proven experience managing risk registers, audits, and policy frameworks.
* Skilled at analysing complex information and presenting clear insights.
* Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage confidently at all levels.
* Proficiency with HRIS systems and data analytics tools.
* Experience working in regulated sectors (such as housing or care) would be advantageous.
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Please note that this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if we receive a high volume of applications.
Why join us?
This is an exciting opportunity to shape the compliance agenda within our People & Culture function. You'll have the scope to strengthen our governance framework, drive service improvements, and ensure our People Services are both compliant and future-focused, enabling us to deliver the best possible experience for our colleagues and customers.
Anchor – a great place to work
Anchor is England's largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.
We're not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.
Our values
Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.
Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.
Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos. Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.
A rewarding environment
From health and happiness to finance and your career, we'll give you all the support you need.
Health & happiness
* Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
* Mental health support
* Flexible working options
* Access to online GP appointments
Finance
* Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we'll match it or better
* Quick and easy pension transfer service
* Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
* Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
Career
* Ongoing personal and professional development programme
* Leadership Pathways online learning resources
* Career progression and promotion opportunities
To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste into your browser
Celebrating diversity, celebrating you
Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.
We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.
We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.