HR Business Partner

Job Title: HR Business Partner

Location: Blackheath

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full time 35 hours per week

Our most valuable resource are the people within Morden College; they provide the supportive, caring and inclusive environment both for colleagues and for our Residents. Our culture encourages and supports creativity, celebrates our differences and the similarities that draw us together as a community and promote the highest standards of individual behaviour and accountability in everything we do.

Morden College is a charity that is dedicated to enabling a life-lived independence for the older people they provide homes for, through life, as they grow older. Morden College has enriched the lives of its residents as well as their families, over the last 300 years. The Charity’s core purpose is to provide older people who are in need with a home for life within it’s beautiful grounds, with amazing facilities and surrounded by its caring people, who work tirelessly to provide the highest quality of care.

Our Charity’s Community Services are provided in the Almshouse accommodation at Blackheath and at Ralph Perring Court in Beckenham, through the vibrant communal space in the John Morden Centre and the case management approach that proactively identifies, assesses, and supports the most vulnerable in our community. Our residential care home, Cullum Welch Court (“CWC”), provides personal nursing and dementia care 24/7. With 32 beds, it is small enough to maintain a personalised service to its residents, yet large enough to provide the facilities required to meet their range of needs.

Job Summary/Purpose:

The HR Business Partner (HRBP) will be a key member of the HR Management Team and work closely with teams, managers and other stakeholders to help build organisational and people capability and shape and implement effective people strategies and activities within Morden College.

You will have an excellent understanding of Morden College and the key drivers of the Charity, of the strategy and of the people priorities. Together with the Director of People & Culture, you will develop and implement a people strategy to ensure the Charity is able to achieve its goals and ambitions through its people. You will create a culture and embed values and behaviours to increase engagement, focus on creating a superior employee experience and ensure talent is identified and nurtured by working closely with the L&D Partner and Recruitment Partner.

Your generalist experience will provide you with the knowledge and skills to be able to offer expertise in all people areas, manage employee relations and policy issues and manage, guide and develop the HR Officers reporting into you.

Key Duties & Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Together with the Director, People and Culture, develop and implement a People Strategy at an organisational level and tailored to each area of the Charity to identify and prioritise the people approach in the short- and longer-term
• Build trusted relationships with leaders, managers and their teams to ensure you fully understand their people and business challenges, are able to feedback on or propose and debate approaches and solutions and have the gravitas to influence outcomes.
• Management of 2 HR Officers providing general HR operational support and specific responsibilities aligned to employee experience and talent or systems, data, analytics and reward. Ensure they have the knowledge and experience and / or guidance and support to deliver on their role requirements and objectives. Identify their development requirements and ensure these are acted on throughout the year.

The Candidate:

• Be able to demonstrate the impact of your employee-centred approach to operational and strategic HR matters and understand the benefit of using different approaches.
• Good generalist HR experience, which you are able to demonstrate through a commercial / business lens.
• Solid knowledge of HR processes and a track record in continuous process improvement to benefit the employee experience, efficiency, effectiveness, reduce risk and / or cost.
• Good knowledge and experience of using HR systems and experienced in how to launch and increase employee usage of these systems
• Experience of working with different types of psychometrics and assessment tools is desirable.

Benefits:

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional holidays for long service and during Christmas.
• Enhanced pension
• Subsidised meals
• Free onsite parking
• 24/7 employee assistance programme
• Life assurance and flexible working.

Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Group Human Resource Officer, HR Generalist, Group HR Officer, Human Resources Generalist, Senior HR Advisor, HR Specialist, Senior HR Manager, may also be considered for this role.