Description
Position : People Business Partner
Reporting to : The Head of People
Contract type : Full Time, Permanent
This role requires occasional travel to a Colchester office and travel to other Care offices when needed
About Cera
Cera’s vision is to empower people to live their best lives, in their own home, through the use of technology, professional care and support.
Joining Cera, you are contributing in making this vision a reality. The work you do promotes the dignity, respect, independence and choice of our service users, enabling you to make a real difference.
The role
We have a new opportunity due to expansion in our team. We are looking for a forward thinking HR Business Partner to provide a first-class service to the organization.
To ensure the HR Strategy and it’s underpinning operational deliverables are delivered across the business efficiently and that our stakeholders are engaged with.
Management of employee relations, organization change and OD activities, HR data, upskilling and coaching managers, organizational effectiveness and building future capabilities.
When required you’ll get to work with some inspirational stakeholders internally and externally to ensure the delivery of an effective, customer-friendly HR service.
Responsibilities :
- Partnering with the business to deliver and embed HR initiatives across the business.
- Focus on continuously building, developing and improving all HR processes, procedures and policies to lead to the delivery of a best in class HR service.
- Advising business stakeholders on strategic people initiatives and proposing action plans and interventions in their areas of responsibility.
- Responsible for advising and managing ongoing employee relations casework, working proactively and collaboratively with managers to support casework and aiming to deliver training to upskill managers in this area.
- Taking full ownership of the end to end employee lifecycle across the business functions that the role holder is responsible for.
- Managing and delivering major change programmes including acquisitions, redundancies, TUPE and changes to terms and conditions.
- Navigating the business through ongoing change and looking to continuously improve the way we manage integrations and acquisitions.
- Build relationships and form alliances with internal and external stakeholders seeking opportunities to collaborate and innovate in business areas.
- Coach and build the capability of leaders and managers to pre-empt organisational issues and help improve business efficiency.
- Continuously looking for ways to optimise, automate and improve our HR delivery.
- Participate in the implementation of specific projects, procedures and guidelines to help align the workforce with the strategic goals of the organisation.
Preferred experience :
- Prior experience as an HR Business Partner, within the domiciliary care sector would be a bonus but not essential.
- Experience of managing and driving HR initiatives in an extremely fast-paced, complex environment
- High level influencing and communication skills
- Up to date knowledge of employment law would be beneficial
- Delivery focused, solutions orientated and determined with a collaborative and communicative working style
- Practical, logical and pragmatic; able to solve problems quickly
- Enthusiastic about being in an ever changing environment
Life at Cera
We’re committed to creating an inclusive workforce. We believe in a world where you have the freedom to explore and express yourself without judgement, no matter who you are or where you’re from.
Where you value yourself and feel proud of who you are. Where individuality is a source of confidence, because difference makes the world a better place.
Benefits :
- Great career development opportunity with a fast-growing company with ambition
- Mobile phone, laptop and all the technology you’ll need
- Flexible remote working
- Competitive salary, discretionary bonus & long term employee incentive plan
- 25 days paid annual leave + your birthday off + UK bank holidays
- Recognition awards
- Group pension scheme
- Lifeworks discount platform & Employee Assistance Programme
- Refer a friend scheme
What’s it like to be part of the Cera team?
Our team is made up of academics, innovators, start-up accelerators and care experts, all connected by a vision to build a better future for care through the combination of best-in-class carers, empowered by technology.
You have the opportunity to join a purpose-driven company at the tipping point of transformation.
You’ll play a key part in the evolution of Cera and make a real impact, now and in the future.