Senior People and Culture Lead (12-month Maternity Cover) - Swindon (remote with regular regional travel)Please note: We’re sharing this opportunity across a number of job boards and in different locations to reach as many potential applicants as possible. However, this is one single position – so wherever you see it, it’s the same great role.At HCRG Care Group, we believe our people are at the heart of delivering excellent care and driving sustainable change. We’re proud to deliver vital health and care services across the country, and we’re looking for two exceptional Senior People & Culture Leads to join us at a pivotal time.This opportunity is offered as a 12-month maternity cover, making it ideal for an experienced People & Culture professional who enjoys stepping into complex environments, making an immediate impact, and delivering meaningful change. You will work closely with our Regional Directors - building trusted partnerships, embedding recent transformation programmes, and helping managers develop the skills and confidence they need to deliver consistently high-performing services.No two days will look the same. One week you might be in Surrey, supporting leaders in our prison healthcare services; the next in Essex, helping managers make the link between absence management, agency use, and service performance. You’ll also play a key role in shaping the people strategy for our sexual health services, including the integration of SH24.Although the role is remote-based, it will require regular travel and visibility across the regions. You’ll be the kind of person who thrives on variety, who enjoys being out in services, and who knows that real cultural change happens when leaders are supported, present, and accountable.This is not about policy writing or transactional HR. It’s about influence, coaching, and impact. You’ll create people plans tailored to each region, use data and insights to shape decision-making, and most importantly, ensure that change sticks long after the project team has moved on.If you are a seasoned HR professional with the credibility to influence senior leaders, the resilience to navigate complex environments, and the drive to make a tangible difference, then this is your opportunity to join us and leave a lasting mark on colleagues, services, and communities.Main ResponsibilitiesAct as a strategic partner to Regional Directors, building trusted relationships and ensuring people strategies directly support operational and service delivery goals.Develop and deliver tailored people plans for each region, aligned with organisational strategy, KPIs, and local priorities.Embed organisational change - ensuring that recent transformation programmes are sustained, capability is built, and managers feel confident in leading new ways of working.Coach and support managers to strengthen leadership capability, particularly in areas such as absence management, performance management, and employee engagement.Create clear links between people data and business outcomes, helping leaders understand how areas such as absence, agency usage, and retention impact both cost and service quality.Champion a positive and inclusive culture, using colleague voice, surveys, and engagement tools to identify issues and co-create solutions with managers and teams.Provide visible presence across services, regularly travelling to sites and attending leadership and team meetings to offer hands-on support and guidance.Use data and insights to inform decision-making, identify people risks, and recommend pragmatic solutions that balance commercial and colleague needs.Work collaboratively with centres of excellence within the wider People team, ensuring policies, practices, and initiatives are consistently applied and adapted for local needs.Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing across all people practices, creating environments where colleagues feel supported, engaged, and able to thrive.Contribute to organisational performance by tracking ROI on people initiatives, ensuring people practices add value to both colleagues and service delivery.Ideal CandidateWe’re looking for someone who can bring both credibility and pragmatism - a trusted partner who can balance strategic thinking with a hands-on approach to building capability and embedding change.You will be:An experienced Senior HR Business Partner / OD leader with a proven track record of partnering senior stakeholders to deliver people strategies that drive performance and culture.CIPD Level 7 qualified (or equivalent experience), with strong knowledge of employment legislation, organisational development, and workforce planning.Skilled in embedding change - not just delivering transformation projects, but ensuring changes are sustained through capability building, coaching, and cultural alignment.Highly confident in building manager and leadership capability, particularly around absence management, performance, engagement, and succession planning.Adept at using people data and insights to influence decision-making, spot risks, and link people practices to service KPIs (e.g. absence rates, agency spend, staff survey outcomes).A strong communicator and influencer, able to build trust quickly with Regional Directors and senior managers with very different leadership styles.Comfortable with regular national travel and maintaining a visible presence across services - you’ll know that sometimes the most meaningful impact happens in team meetings, on-site with leaders, and in the moments where you can challenge and support face-to-face.Commercially astute, with the ability to balance organisational goals, colleague wellbeing, and service user needs.A values-driven leader who champions inclusion, wellbeing, and engagement, creating the conditions where people can thrive.Resilient and adaptable, thriving in a complex and changing environment, and able to “connect the dots” across multiple services and priorities.This is a fantastic role for someone who wants to go beyond traditional HR and truly shape culture, capability, and leadership in services that make a difference to communities across the UK.About the CompanyWe 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're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed 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. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.