People Partner

Hanover Housing Association Ltd; Easter Howgate; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: People Partner

Location: Edinburgh, Glasgow or Elgin

Working Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Starting Salary: £39,006 (salary during 6 month probation period)

Salary upon completion of successful probation: £40,956

Closing Date: Midnight on Sunday 4th May 2025

About Hanover

Hanover has been successfully housing and supporting people in Scotland for over 40 years. Our core purpose is to help people feel safe and secure at home so they can live full and independent lives.

About the Role

We have the exciting opportunity for a People Partner to join our wonderful People Team! We want the right person for this role so we do not mind if you are based in Glasgow, Edinburgh, or Elgin as long as you can work in a hybrid way.

As a People Partner, you'll collaborate closely with teams across the organisation to drive meaningful change, support wellbeing strategies and foster a culture of excellence. Whether it's guiding employee relations, managing transformative projects or shaping policies that align with our values, your work will have a real impact on our employees and the people we serve.

This is a varied role which will involve handling an ER caseload, leading restructuring processes, using data and insights to coach managers to drive performance and delivering key initiatives to enhance engagement and equity.

We are looking for someone with HR expertise, a proactive mindset, and a genuine passion for making a difference. You'll be comfortable working both remotely and in-person and will be prepared to travel to our locations across the country if needed.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide professional, expert advice on all areas of HR by advising and supporting managers through people management matters to ensure that a fair approach is applied to all cases, in line with Policies and Procedures, employment law and Best Practice to mitigate risk.
• Advise and guide managers who conduct formal processes across Hanover during investigations or hearings of disciplinary and appeals, where required, to ensure an impartial, prompt and confidential approach is taken and fair outcomes are delivered, in line with employment legislation, best practice, and HR policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the delivery of HR change projects and processes such as TUPE, Redundancy, Restructures, and Consultations, to support current and future organisational aims and objectives.
• Develop and sustain strong working partnerships to be able to advise, coach and support managers in the development and engagement of their people, providing expert advice on relevant policies, procedures, and legislation, to support the business aims and objectives.
• Lead and mentor HR Administrators by providing direction and support on the entire employee lifecycle, including resourcing and onboarding, employee development and employee relations.
• Contribute and support the delivery of the Department objectives enabling strategic objectives to be achieved.
• Maintain all HR systems by ensuring data is up to date and correct, identify improvements, and implement any changes to ensure they are fit for current and future purpose, support employees and are in line with legislation.
• Produce and analyse reports to assist when providing statistics to SMT and Board on monthly and quarterly KPIs and identifying trends within the business and areas for improvement to discuss with operational managers during Business Partnership meetings, to improve future performance and reduce risk to the business.
• Promote continuous improvement by appropriately challenging practice where necessary and providing guidance to improve people management practices across the organisation.
• Develop Hanover’s recruitment processes, ensuring that modern and innovative approaches are adopted to attract quality candidates, which support managers across.

What We Offer

Hanover offers a supportive and friendly environment where our people are valued and appreciated. We are a Scottish Living Wage employer as well as being a Gold IIP Wellbeing employer and Young Person’s Guarantee. Your hard work and drive to succeed are rewarded through:

• Competitive salary and pension options.
• Hybrid Working Model and Flexi-working.
• Health and Wellbeing support networks including Mental Health First Aiders and a 24/7 GP helpline.
• Employee counselling service upon assessment.
• Access to our Hanover Perks platform which includes high street discounts, health cash plan and fuel card.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Tech Scheme.
• Family friendly policies.
• Internal Leadership Excellence programme for leadership/manager roles.

Recruitment Timeline

Closing date for applications midnight on Sunday 4th May 2025.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend interviews on the 14th or 15th May 2025.

Hanover are firmly committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all. As an accredited Disability Confident Employer, we will interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum requirements of the role.