People Specialist – People Operations

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

Community Integrated Care is currently seeking a proactive and confident People Specialist to join the People team covering our Scotland region encompassing Glasgow, Perth, Forth Valley and surrounding areas on a permanent, part-time basis to cover maternity leave until December 2024.

What is “The Deal” for you?

Skills

We offer you a rewarding role with the opportunity to develop your skills and future career in a rewarding and enriching environment. We also offer the following:

• Flexibility! 24 hours per week! You will need to be available to work from our Glasgow office when required and travel to services in the region, but otherwise you can work from home or a flex between the two.
• Competitive Salary: £30,000 to £33,000 (dependent upon experience) + £3,000 car allowance
• Pension: contributory pension scheme
• Benefits: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
• Best Lives Possible: You’ll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives possible
• Development: We’ll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We’re passionate about developing our people!
• Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you’ll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life

Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:

Reporting to the Senior People Business Partner, the People Specialist will work within the Scotland region to provide HR support on a day-to-day basis. Liaising with and supporting the Senior People Business Partner to provide a comprehensive HR service to managers and staff within the organisation.

Day To Day

The post holder will have the following key responsibilities:

• Support regional management teams through all stages of the people process
• Provide prompt and insightful advice on HR policy, procedures and people issues across all areas of the business
• Provide resourcing and TUPE support
• Support the Senior People Business Partner to deliver the Regional People Plan
• Support the Senior People Business Partner and Operational Leaders with organisational change activity in the region to meet business drivers including growth, acquisition, integration, end of contract and restructure scenarios
• Partnering Service Leaders; providing coaching and acting as a critical friend to support them in the development of their regional strategies out in the services.
• Driving recruitment for the region in conjunction with the Recruitment team to support the Senior People Business Partner to implement the Workforce Plan.
• Liaising with People Services to ensure day to day HR queries are resolved in a timely manner.
• Producing meaningful management information and analysis to support the Senior People Business Partner

Your Values

Our Ideal Candidate:

• You are a brilliant communicator – you find it easy to explain things in a way that is easy for others to understand
• You would describe yourself as a people person – you build relationships quickly, and find it easy to talk to anyone
• You love working with data – tracking, trending, and analysing are all second nature to you
• People might say you are “a safe pair of hands” – a professional to the core, you quickly build trust and confidence
• You are looking for a varied role where no two days are the same!

Experience, Skills And Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will be CIPD qualified with a proven track record in a HR Advisor role providing support to multiple services across a geographical area or a large multi-site environment.
• You will have strong communication skills, with the ability to develop immediate credibility with internal and external stakeholders and build sound working relationships.
• A driving license is essential due to the travel required throughout the region.
• It is important however that you share our company values which are at the heart of everything we do and ensure that we deliver high quality, consistent care and support.
• Proven track record in a People Specialist role providing support to multiple sites across a geographical area or a large multi-site environment
• Experience of working with a central HR service (HRSS)
• Experience of working with middle managers to identify and plan people needs
• Experience of working independently
• Experience in managing recruitment processes is desirable

A Place I belong

Here at Community Integrated Care we aim to be a warm, welcoming and inclusive employer, where all colleagues feel they belong. We want to an organisation that is truly fair and equal to all – where individual diversity is valued, unique characteristics celebrated and everyone feels able to bring their true selves to work.

By encouraging and embracing a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences, capabilities and viewpoints, we will build a stronger, richer, more vibrant workforce, which reflects the people we support, and the communities in which we work. It helps us make better decisions, bring fresh ideas and become a true provider and employer of choice.

We have a really clear plan to achieve this called A Place I Belong. This publicly sets out the promises we’ve made to achieving this vision and how we will hold ourselves to account to getting there. You can read more about this by clicking here.

Please note, If you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.

We wish you the very best of luck in your application to joining our charity. Should you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to contact [email protected]

Community Integrated Care is an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident employer.