Overview
At HCRG Care Group, we’re seeking two Senior People & Culture Leads to join us at a pivotal time. This unique role combines the scope of a senior HR business partner with the influence to shape culture and capability across diverse services. You will work closely with Regional Directors, building trusted partnerships, embedding transformation programmes, and helping managers develop the skills and confidence to deliver high-performing services. The role is remote-based with regular travel to regions.
Key focus includes aligning people strategy with regional needs, embedding change, coaching leaders, and ensuring that people plans sustain impact long after project teams move on. If you are a seasoned HR professional with credibility to influence senior leaders and resilience to navigate complex environments, this is an opportunity to leave a lasting mark on colleagues, services, and communities.
Main Responsibilities
* Act 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, sustaining recent transformation programmes, building capability, and ensuring managers lead new ways of working.
* Coach and support managers to strengthen leadership capability in areas such as absence management, performance management, and employee engagement.
* Create clear links between people data and business outcomes, helping leaders understand how absence, agency usage, and retention impact 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 balancing commercial and colleague needs.
* Collaborate with centres of excellence within the wider People team to ensure consistent application and adaptation of policies and initiatives for local needs.
* Promote equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing across all people practices, creating environments where colleagues feel supported and able to thrive.
* Contribute to organisational performance by tracking ROI on people initiatives and ensuring practices add value to colleagues and service delivery.
The Ideal Candidate
We’re looking for someone who can bring both credibility and pragmatism—a trusted partner who balances 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), with strong knowledge of employment legislation, organisational development and workforce planning.
* Skilled in embedding change—sustaining transformation through capability building, coaching and cultural alignment.
* Confident in building manager and leadership capability around absence management, performance, engagement, and succession planning.
* Adept at using people data and insights to influence decision-making and link people practices to service KPIs.
* A strong communicator and influencer, able to build trust quickly with Regional Directors and senior managers with different leadership styles.
* Comfortable with regular national travel and maintaining a visible presence across services.
* Commercially astute, balancing organisational goals, colleague wellbeing and service user needs.
* A values-driven leader who champions inclusion, wellbeing and engagement.
* Resilient and adaptable, 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 shape culture, capability and leadership in services that make a difference to communities across the UK.
Package Description
As a Senior People and Culture Lead, you’ll be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group. You’ll receive exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* £55,000 - £60,000 with group pension
* Private medical insurance with fast access to specialists including musculoskeletal and mental health support
* Membership of My Reward Hub with discounts and cashback offers
* Access to wages as you earn them to help cover emergencies
* Mental and physical wellbeing support, including career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and development through The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture encouraging ideas to deliver our purpose, backed by innovation funding
* Opportunity to work for an organisation with high clinical and quality standards
About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are a leading independent provider of community health and care services, working with commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and outcomes. We deliver a range of services across England and support millions of people annually, guided by our values: we care, we think, we do.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a diverse range of people. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer, providing adjustments and support to be inclusive. Safeguarding and safer recruitment processes are in place for all roles.
By applying, you agree that we may process and hold information about you in accordance with our privacy policy.
Note: We may close the vacancy earlier than the listed date if the role is highly popular. If you are keen, please apply soon.
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