HR Business Partner

Job Introduction

At Prestige Nursing + Care we are leading the care industry to raise standards by providing high quality, personalised and specialist services that ensure people receive the highest quality of care.

With over 30 branches in England and Scotland and 75 years of experience in providing homecare to the community we are committed to be the best in our industry.

This is an exciting time to be joining Prestige Nursing + Care, part of the Sodexo Group. A fresh and exciting opportunity has arisen to join our established HR team as a HR Business Partner.

The role of HR Business Partner is to partner with local business leaders to enable the delivery of HR solutions to maximise people performance, strategy and workforce planning to significantly contribute to towards strengthening business performance

Dimensions: Workforce responsible for circa 120 employed and 1000 carers.

This role will cover the East & South West regions.

Role Responsibility

At Prestige Nursing + Care we are leading the care industry to raise standards by providing high quality, personalised and specialist services that ensure people receive the highest quality of care.

With over 30 branches in England and Scotland and 75 years of experience in providing homecare to the community we are committed to be the best in our industry.

This is an exciting time to be joining Prestige Nursing + Care, part of the Sodexo Group. A fresh and exciting opportunity has arisen to join our established HR team as a HR Business Partner.

The role of HR Business Partner is to partner with local business leaders to enable the delivery of HR solutions to maximise people performance, strategy and workforce planning to significantly contribute to towards strengthening business performance

Dimensions: Workforce responsible for circa 120 employed and 1000 carers.

This role will cover the East & South West regions.

The success of this role will be measured by:

• Improved implementation of HR policy, procedures and initiatives across your business through effective communication, coaching and implementation of processes with line managers, resulting in higher staff retention, staff empowerment, productivity, improved people management, business consistency and visible business growth
• The implementation and use of HR Analytics to identify areas for improvement and develop interventions for change in areas such as casual absence, retention, failure to follow process and procedures, with clear deliverable improvements when evaluated.
• To continuously monitor and ensure labour targets are met within specified timeframes and recommend appropriate interventions to support operations
• Evidence and feedback of ability to deliver a customer focused HR service, delivering expert professional advice and support to stakeholders including management, employees, members and client groups 
• Joined up HR Services in your business area due to strong working relationship with the wider HR team, resourcing and recruitment, payroll and other internal service departments

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent CIPD qualification or qualified by experience
• HR generalist experience and good understanding of all aspects of HR Management including resourcing, talent management/succession planning, change management and employee relations
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Good interpersonal, communications and presentation skills
• Strong facilitation and coaching skills
• Well organised, responsive and able to work under pressure
• A commitment to equal opportunities and diversity
• Symmetry between personal and organisational values
• Demonstrates the behaviours associated with Prestige Nursing + Care’s values

Desirable

• Exposure to unionised environments is beneficial
• Experience of organisation development and design, and facilitation of change including consultation and engagement
• Experience of superuser HR Systems
• Proficient user of Microsoft Office programmes

Package Description

• A competitive salary (Above the national average)
• Yearly bonus up to 7.5% of salary dependant on company achieving targets set in place and company profits
• 28 days annual leave increasing every year by 1 to a maximum of 33 days over 5 years service
• Work Place Pension
• Access to “Your Prestige” Employee benefits scheme
• Supportive working environment with ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• A friendly, agile and flexible working culture.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.