HR Business Partner
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Provides high-quality HR support across the organisation, leading complex employee relations cases and supporting organisational change, restructures and redundancies while ensuring legal compliance and fair processes.
About this role
We’re looking for an experienced and confident HR Business Partner to join us on a temporary basis for up to 12 months, providing high-quality, pragmatic HR support across the organisation.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll work closely with managers and senior leaders, providing advice, coaching and challenge across a broad range of people matters. You’ll take the lead on complex employee relations cases, including absence, performance, capability, disciplinary and grievance matters, ensuring our approach is fair, consistent and legally compliant.
A key part of the role will also be supporting organisational change, partnering with managers and senior leaders through restructures and redundancies and providing specialist advice on consultation, redeployment and associated employee matters. You’ll help ensure consultation processes are meaningful, transparent and well managed, while identifying and mitigating people risks.
What you’ll bring
What you’ll bring
We’re looking for someone who can quickly build trusted relationships and confidently operate in a busy HR environment. You’ll ideally have:
- Extensive experience of managing complex employee relations cases.
- Significant experience of supporting and leading the HR aspects of organisational change, including restructures and redundancies.
- Strong, up-to-date employment law and HR best-practice knowledge.
- CIPD Level 5 or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience.
- Experience of coaching and constructively challenging managers to strengthen people-management capability.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A pragmatic, solutions-focused approach, with the resilience to manage sensitive and complex employee matters calmly and effectively.
Previous experience within the charity or knowledge of voluntary organisations, or experience of designing and delivering training would be an advantage, but isn’t essential.
The role works collaboratively with the wider HR team and will also contribute to organisation-wide HR policies and procedures, wellbeing, diversity and workforce strategies, training solutions, reporting and opportunities to improve and digitise HR processes.
As the role requires regular travel across our operating region, you’ll need a full driving licence and access to your own vehicle for business use, or reliable alternative transport arrangements.
Key Responsibilities
For an informal chat, please call Coralie Nokes, Head of HR , on 01795 845257.
Closing date - 16 October 2026
Demelza greatly values the benefits of a diverse team and embraces diversity, equality, and inclusion in all areas of its work. We are committed to building a diverse and authentic workplace, ensuring that our team reflects the diversity of the children and families we support. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds.
Closing date - 16 October 2026
Demelza greatly values the benefits of a diverse team and embraces diversity, equality, and inclusion in all areas of its work. We are committed to building a diverse and authentic workplace, ensuring that our team reflects the diversity of the children and families we support. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds.
To find out how we process your personal data during the recruitment process, please refer to the Employee Recruitment Privacy Notice.
As part of our commitment to safer recruitment, all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at a level relevant to the role.
Demelza is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Demelza is an equal opportunities employer. Registered Charity No. 1039651.
Skills
Absence ManagementCIPD Level 5Coaching ManagersDisciplinary ProceduresDiversity And InclusionEmployee RelationsEmployment LawGrievance HandlingHR Best PracticeHR Policies And ProceduresHR Process DigitisationHR ReportingOrganisational Change ManagementPerformance ManagementRedundancy ConsultationTraining DeliveryWellbeing StrategyWorkforce Planning
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