Job summary
- Main area
- HR
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- B0399-814906
- Employer
- St Anne's Community Services
- Employer type
- Private Sector
- Site
- Fountain Court
- Town
- Morley
- Salary
- £46,410 pa, pay progression after 6 months
- Closing
- 22/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
People Partner
Job overview
Are you ready to use your HR expertise to truly shape the future of our workforce?
People Partner
Morley, Leeds
£46,410 per annum
37.5 hours per week
We are looking for a collaborative, forward-thinking People Partner to join our team. This role is a unique blend of strategic influence and hands-on impact, offering a challenging yet deeply rewarding career move. You will step away from reactive HR and move into a proactive, relationship-driven position where your voice matters.
Your Impact
- Empower Leaders: Partner directly with specific business areas to provide expert advice and constructive challenge, coaching managers to confidently own their people decisions.
- Shape the Future: Work alongside senior managers to design workforce plans that tackle strategic business issues, ensuring our teams have the right skills, diversity, and structure to deliver our strategy.
- Drive Strategy: Lead high-profile people initiatives and foster a customer-focused culture of continuous improvement across the organization.
About You
- Relationship Builder: You thrive on establishing deep trust and credible partnerships with senior stakeholders.
- Strategic Thinker: You look beyond immediate issues to anticipate future workforce needs and skills gaps.
- Constructive Challenger: You are comfortable pushing back, offering fresh perspectives, and guiding managers to the best outcomes.
· CIPD registration required
Main duties of the job
Strategic Partnerships: Build professional and effective working partnerships, to drive a culture of empowerment and accountability with senior leaders and managers, providing challenge and guidance, to effect strategic change in line with St Anne’s values and behaviours.
Business Acumen: Understand the needs and challenges of assigned business areas by working in partnership with leadership teams. Undertaking effective horizon scanning contribute to the development of strategic workforce solutions which deliver key performance indicators, meet future organisational needs and operating priorities.
Working for our organisation
St. Anne's wants to reward its employees for their hard work. Employee benefits include;
- Rising annual leave each year to a maximum of 33 days (including statutory holidays)
- 24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme
- Continuous opportunities for ongoing training and career development
- Cycle To Work scheme
- Refer A Friend recruitment initiative
- Flexible working opportunities (where applicable) upon successful completion of probation period
- Group Personal Pension Scheme
- Discounted income protection scheme
- Free car parking at most services
- Free life assurance cover
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Employee Relations: Maintain and promote positive employee relations through the provision of high quality, specialist advice, guidance, engagement and co-operation in relation to People issues, the development of policies and procedures, and terms and conditions. Lead on sensitive / complex ER cases, as appropriate.
Challenging Moments: Coach and advise managers to develop creative and pragmatic solutions on the full range of complex employment issues, including engaging and consulting with the trade unions, advising on risks, benefits, and options to achieve organisational outcomes and influence decision making where appropriate.
Performance Management: Acting as an effective coach, guide, and mentor to managers to grow their capability and confidence and enable them to deal effectively with people performance issues to improve business performance and for the benefit of our client experience.
Data Analysis and Systems: Leverage key business data, systems, and people analytics to provide critical business insight, challenge and recommendations that drive strategic decisions and continuous improvement.
Organisational Development: Working with colleagues across the People Team, share insights to ensure that the Service is aware of and delivers colleague needs, including identifying and supporting learning and development requirements; performance improvement; talent planning and other Organisational Development initiatives.
Please see attached JD for further information on the People Partner role at St Anne's.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant qualification in a people related discipline, or significant proven experience in HR
- Driver and access to own vehicle
- Up to date knowledge of employment law, including organisational change and TUPE
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of current issues/developments within the care and not-for-profit sector and the impact that this context can have on people practices for St Anne’s.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Membership of CIPD
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Senior
- Job title
- Head Of People Partnering
- Email address
- [email protected]
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