Role: Senior People Partner
Location: Remotely based with travel as required
Hours: 40 H/P/W, Monday to Friday
Pay: Competitive plus Benefits
Are you driven by the desire to create an outstanding employee experience? Do you excel in fast-paced, dynamic settings and enjoy collaborating with operational teams to drive business success? If so, Compass Group invites you to join us as a Senior People Partner within our Healthcare Team, where you'll work at a strategic level to make a real impact!
As a Senior People Partner for Healthcare, you'll be instrumental in shaping and executing our HR strategy. You'll collaborate closely with key stakeholders and the broader HR team to foster a positive workplace culture. Your strategic insights will help the business reach its goals, improve customer experiences, and promote an inclusive, diverse workforce.
In this role, you'll be a trusted adviser, developing deep business insights to effectively coach and guide leaders. You'll play a crucial part in making Compass a great place to work, with a strong emphasis on employee engagement, talent management, succession planning, diversity and inclusion, and driving cultural change. You will also be responsible for applying evidence-based practices to address the people-related challenges the business faces.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop People Strategies: Collaborate with leadership teams to understand business goals and develop strategies to attract, develop, and retain talent, improve colleague engagement, and enhance business performance.
- Strategic Partnering: Advise, coach, and support leadership teams on all strategic people-related matters, providing valuable insights and challenging the status quo.
- Data-Driven Insights: Analyse people metrics to provide actionable management information, influencing people-related interventions and driving performance improvements.
- HR Excellence: Advocate for the adoption and compliance with people policies and processes, ensuring HR products meet sector requirements.
- Project Management: Create and deliver strategic people plans and projects, ensuring effective implementation, communication, training, and change management.
- Annual HR Cycle: Support key HR activities, including salary reviews, talent and succession planning, performance management, and employee engagement.
- Bid Support: Lead the people elements of bids, retenders, and presentations, ensuring a strong HR presence in business development.
- HR Operating Model: Embed the HR operating model across the business, driving consistency and efficiency.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement improvement opportunities in HR processes and procedures.
- Employee Forum: Oversee the implementation of an Employee Forum, ensuring employee voices are heard and feedback is acted upon.
- Change Management: Support and coach leaders through organizational changes, including design and implementation.
- Diversity & Inclusion: Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion, supporting the EDI strategy and being an active ally for employee representative groups.
- Transformational Change: Provide expert advice on restructures, TUPE, and redundancy, ensuring a commercially focused approach to cost and efficiency improvements.
- Employee Relations: Support complex employee relations cases and Employment Tribunals as needed.
- Strategic HR Projects: Lead selected strategic HR projects, driving impactful outcomes.
Essential Qualifications and Experience:
- Proven experience in designing and delivering a people plan within a People Partnering team.
- Successful track record as a Strategic Business Partner in a fast-paced, customer-facing/operational business with a large, dispersed workforce.
- Broad HR generalist experience, including Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Reward, Learning and Development, Employment Law (including TUPE), Employee Relations, Policy, and HR Shared Services.
- Financially astute, commercially and digitally literate, with intermediate Microsoft Office skills.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to review and interpret management information and data.
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Creative, passionate, forward-thinking and human-centric approach to HR.
- Effective project management skills with a successful record of delivering enterprise-wide projects.
- Effective and accurate written and verbal communication skills.
- Engaged in continuous professional development, thought leadership, and best practices.
- Have/or working towards Level 7 CIPD - MCIPD or able to demonstrate equivalent skills, knowledge, and behaviours.
At Compass Group, we are dedicated to making our organization a great place to work. If you are ready to make a difference and help us achieve our goals, we want to hear from you!
We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- Contributory pension scheme
- Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes
- Quick access for you and your immediate family to a Digital GP, and wider healthcare benefits
- Exclusive travel discounts with TUI, Expedia, Booking.com and many more
- Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more
- Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster
- Receive cash rewards every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands
- Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes
- You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families
About Us
Part of Compass Group UK&I, Medirest is the specialist healthcare operating company of Compass Group UK & Ireland, providing a full range of hotel services, including staff, patient and visitor catering, domestics, portering, security and reception, at over 130 NHS Trusts and private hospitals.
Compass Group UK&I wants everyone in our business to feel able to be themselves at work and to have an equal opportunity to progress their career. We want to create a culture where we respect and embrace everyone's talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities. Where our colleagues feel valued, can reach their full potential, and thrive - Diversity is Our