People Partner

Are you an experienced HR professional with strong generalist expertise confident operating independently in a complex organisation, who builds strong relationships, influences leaders, and delivers practical people solutions?Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can make a real impact through coaching, problem-solving, and driving positive organisational change?Are you anindependent thinker, who coaches, challenges and takes accountability for outcomes This role operates beyond first-line HR support.You will take ownership of complex people matters, coach leaders to build capability, and drive outcomes rather than escalate for resolution. We're looking for a People Partnerto join our People Services team, providing a full generalist HR service to a designated business area.You'll work closely with managers and leaders to deliver people initiatives, support organisational change, improve performance, and create a positive colleague experience across the business.,

• Provide an autonomous, full generalist people partnering service, coaching and challenging managers on a wide range of people matters
• Build strong relationships with leaders and managers, influencing and challenging where appropriate to deliver positive business outcomes
• Support the delivery of people plans, organisational initiatives, and cyclical activities including engagement surveys and pay reviews
• Partner with leaders on workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, and resourcing activities
• Coach andchallenge managers to take ownership of people decisions, build capability in performance management, employee relations, and people leadership
• Support leaders throughout the performance management cycle, helping to drive a high-performance culture
• Lead and advise on complex employee relations cases including absence management, disciplinary, grievance, capability, appeal and flexible working cases; while coaching managers to reduce cases
• Lead andsupport organisational change initiatives including restructures, reorganisations, TUPE transfers, job evaluation and salary benchmarking
• Analyse people data and management information to diagnose, and identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement
• Contribute to policy development, process improvements, and continuous improvement initiatives across People Services
• Champion organisational values, culture, and colleague engagement across the business
• Support People Services projects and wider strategic initiatives as required
  
  CIPD Level 5 (or working towards)
• Employment law qualification (desirable)
• Solid generalist HR experience, with demonstrable ownership and resolution of complex ER casework and organisational change activity, in a complex organisation
• Strong knowledge of employment legislation and its practical application within a business environment
• Experience advising managers on employee relations matters including performance management, disciplinaries, grievances, absence management and appeals
• Experiencesupporting organisational change activities including restructures, job evaluation, consultations and TUPE processes
• Strong coaching, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Experience using people data and management information to identify trends and informdecision-making
• Excellent communication, relationship-building and problem-solving skills
• Commercially aware with the ability to balance people outcomes and business objectives
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and HR systems
  
  AtA2Dominion, we're more than a housing provider.We're a not-for-profit organisation with a clear social purpose: to create homes and communities people love to live in.With over 38,000 homes across London and the South East, we reinvest our profits into building more affordable homes and delivering services that make a real difference.We're a G15 housing association with a strong social purpose
Choosing us is easy As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life. We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include. - 25days' holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service - Upto 8% contributory pension - Flexible working - Allpermanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family Inclusion at A2Dominion We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process - just contact our Resourcing Team at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk We know some people may hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement. If that's you, we'd still encourage you to apply - or get in touch with us to talk it through. At A2Dominion, we value diversity, embrace flexibility, and are a family-friendly employer. Everyone belongs here. Join us and help make a lasting difference in the lives of our customers.