Location (UK):Office Hybrid* - Chesterfield (potential office relocation to central Sheffield in 2026)
Hours:Full-time, 35 hours per week
Salary:£40,295 per annum (rest of UK)
Contract type:Permanent
Travel:Willingness to travel to Versus Arthritis offices on occasions (London, Sheffield, Cardiff, Belfast, Glasgow)
Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.
We are seeking a People Business Partner to join our dynamic People Services Business Partnering team to help make a significant contribution to our goal of making Versus Arthritis a great place to work and volunteer. Our People Services team is dedicated to delivering high-quality, collaborative support to business leaders, ensuring alignment with our business strategy and organisational priorities.
About the role
Our People Business Partners work in collaboration with senior leaders and managers across the charity to drive and implement positive change. The successful candidate will partner with a designated directorate and will need to demonstrate strong professional and interpersonal skills to build effective working relationships with a variety of key stakeholders, providing expert people management advice and guidance across all people related matters.
About you
To be successful, you must be a solutions-focused experienced Human Resources Generalist with the ability to demonstrate effective business partnering, stakeholder management, coaching and influencing expertise to deliver trustworthy advice and support services to a diverse group of people; helping us to develop and embed a positive, inclusive and high performing workplace culture.
If your knowledge, skills and experience include the following then we’d love to hear from you:
* Experience in delivering high quality people management advice and support including effectively managing complex employee relations cases and organisational change programmes.
* Ability to remain flexible and adaptable, aligning to organisational objectives and culture within a changing work context.
* Adept at building strong working relationships with a variety of people, including working collaboratively across the People and Culture directorate and the wider organisation.
* Able to develop a good understanding of stakeholder groups, including their business priorities, challenges and people resourcing needs.
* Pragmatic and solutions-focused; taking an evidence-based approach, using data and business insights to inform decision making processes.
* Excellent communicator, along with effective coaching and influencing skills.
* A strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
* CIPD Qualification (Level 5 or equivalent).
*As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.
Benefits Your excellent benefits include:
* Flexible hours, environments and working practices to promote a healthy work/life balance.
* Health and wellbeing support – including the Employee Assistance Programme (free confidential 24/7 support with mental health, legal and financial queries).
* Simplyhealth cash plan.
* Supportive and inclusive culture, with a wide range of employee networks and support groups available to join.
* Learning and personal development opportunities.
* Competitive annual leave, with the option to buy/sell up to five days per year.
* Generous pension plan, with employer contribution of up to 10%.
* Life Assurance plan (4 x salary).
We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales.
Please note that we do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during our recruitment and selection processes, and we would respectfully ask that you also refrain from using AI during the selection process. Whilst we do recognise that AI may be a beneficial tool for some when aiding research and preparation for an application or interview, we want to maintain a fair, inclusive and positive recruitment experience at Versus Arthritis where candidates can feel supported to demonstrate their experience, knowledge, and skills without the use of AI generated answers.
Interview
Interviews are expected to take place on: Monday 22 September 2025.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee you will be offered an interview if you disclose a disability and demonstrate sufficient evidence within your application that you meet the essential criteria for this role. We will also make any reasonable adjustments you may require for your interview.
About us
We have made a commitment in our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy to increase the diversity of our charity and we welcome candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees, volunteers and trustees to represent the broad diversity of the communities of which we are a part.
There are over 10 million people living with arthritis. That’s one in six, with over half of those living in pain every single day. The impact is huge as the condition slowly intrudes on everyday life – affecting the ability to work, care for a family, to move free from pain and to live independently. Yet arthritis is often dismissed as an inevitable part of ageing or shrugged off as ‘just a bit of arthritis’. We don’t think that this is OK. Versus Arthritis is here to change that.
Versus Arthritis is committed to keeping children, young people and vulnerable adults safe from harm. During the recruitment process we will undertake safer recruitment practices and relevant checks to ensure applicants are suitable to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults.
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