People Business Partner

First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO) aims to be the best in the business, with an excellent team of colleagues and with customers at the heart of everything we do. Established in February 2011, FCHO is one of the largest employers in Oldham. We are committed to boosting the Oldham economy and providing excellent benefits for our employees.

A future-focused and progressive not-for-profit housing association, we want to make Oldham a place where people are proud to live and work. To deliver our promises to our customers we are looking for a highly motivated, customer-focussed individual to appoint to the following key position:

People Business Partner Salary: circa £42,000 per annum
Permanent

This is an exciting time to join our People Team as we continue on our exciting journey of cultural change. In this influential role, you will have the opportunity to coach and support business leaders and managers in your business areas helping to shape our organisation for future success.

The main purposes of the post are as follows;

To work in partnership with leaders, key stakeholders and managers to shape, develop and deliver People related plans, formulating solutions in line with the needs and priorities of First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO). Operating as the departmental HR expert, to advise, guide and support managers and colleagues by providing efficient and effective people management and development support across your designated business areas.

To implement efficient and effective processes, aligned to policies and procedures throughout the employee life cycle.

To ensure FCHO’s treatment of colleagues is fair, respectful, consistent with our framework of core business values & objectives and in line with our EDI ambitions.

To embed the Business Partner model, creating a positive employee relations climate that supports colleague capability, engagement and a high performance, customer-focussed culture.

To ensure consistency in the application of People policies and procedures fostering a transparent and compliant approach to resourcing & onboarding, learning & development, employee relations and engagement throughout everything that we do.

To undertake the design delivery and implementation of projects as directed by the Head of People.

In return you can expect a range of benefits including:

• Competitive salary
• Pension contributions
• Funded healthcare cash plan
• A basic holiday entitlement of 30 days plus 8 statutory bank holidays, plus 1 company shut down day
• Hybrid Working
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Discounted gym membership
• Vouchers or cashback on holidays, shopping or days out

If you have a passion and commitment for delivering excellent services with leadership and enthusiasm to deliver the best experience to our customers we encourage you to apply.

We positively encourage applications from disabled people, women, young people, Veterans and serving British regular or reserve Armed Forces Personnel, the LGBT community and the BME community.

Details of the application process are available on our website at www.fcho.co.uk following the link “Working with FCHO”

The deadline for completed applications is Sunday 23rd April 2023 at 10:00pm.

Interviews and assessments to take place as soon as possible.