This Role: Head of People Location: Farringdon, EC1N 8JS F ull Time Fixed Term Contract until July 2025 Salary: Competitive We have an exciting opportunity within our People Team to work alongside Executive Directors and their senior leadership teams to provide strategic HR input on a range of critical business issues, managing complex relationships and enabling senior leaders to improve business performance through robust workforce planning and resourcing, employee engagement and wellbeing, employee relations management, organisational and job design, leadership and talent development, and colleague capability and skills. To contribute to the development of a proactive, customer-focused and efficient HR service at MTVH by understanding evolving business strategies, legislative requirements, and workforce trends, leading work with HR colleagues to proactively create fit-for-purpose people solutions. To drive delivery of significant change programmes and strategic initiatives that strengthen the MTVH culture, inculcate our values into the way we deliver services, and create the right environment to improve organisational performance. Advise senior leaders of obligations and potential people risks to MTVH and support, guide, and coach them to ensure compliance with current employment legislation, the understanding and management of strategic and operational risk (including emerging/ongoing issues and complex casework through to ACAS/Employment Tribunal), and the pragmatic application of policies and processes. To provide leadership and line management of Managers, People Advisors and People Assistants and facilitate an effective, easy, and seamless delivery of service to internal and external customers. What you'll need to succeed: Educated to postgraduate level or equivalent professional experience/qualification (i.e., Chartered Member or Fellow of the CIPD). Desirable Experience in effectively leading small teams, including managing self and others through change. Essential Experience of working effectively as a credible Business Partner at both a strategic and operational level in a generalist HR environment. Essential Experience in a regulated environment where safeguarding is a high priority. Desirable Track record of using people systems and data to inform strategic decision-making. Essential Track record of shaping, developing, and implementing new people approaches across a diverse workforce. Essential Strong project management skills gained through formal qualifications and/or participation in significant change across a large organisation. Desirable Strong understanding of employment law and its application, including ACAS conciliation, employment tribunal, and settlement agreement processes, and the HR management of TUPE transfers and bid preparation. Essential Advanced organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and initiatives and meet conflicting demands Desirable Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey authority, presence, and integrity to command respect from all levels of the organisation and from external partners. Ability to coach and facilitate performance through others. Ability to partner with and influence a range of stakeholders across complex networks. Essential IT literate – able to manipulate Microsoft Excel spreadsheet data, with a practical understanding of Microsoft Office 365 collaboration tools (Teams, OneDrive, etc). Desirable Interview Dates:- TBC Advert Closing Date:- Friday 20th September 2024 Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship. What’s in it for you? Our benefits include:- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9% Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year Life assurance cover 3 x your salary Cycle2work scheme Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation About us We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH. Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document Our promise Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme. We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing. We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:- Gender Ethnicity LGBTQ+ Disability Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together! We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.