HR Manager
| Posting date: | 19 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £45,000.00 to £50,000.00 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds or North East, LS11 5DZ |
| Company: | Akari Care Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1327785845 |
Summary
Package Description
As HR Manager you will report to the Head of Employee Relations and be part of the trusted HR Team in supporting the Central Support Office in Leeds, 31 care homes across 6 portfolios across the country. The aim of this role is to provide personalised HR Manager support and guidance to our Operational colleagues across the Akari Group.
Working with the Regional, Central Support and Home Managers, you will be there to support our community of homes and help Managers to deliver excellent leadership and care to staff and residents. Part of this role will be to coach, mentor, train and support Home Managers across the Group.
You will have detailed knowledge of employment law, experience of providing senior level HR advise, developing and implementing policies across various HR disciplined. In addition, you will possess advance data analytical skills that you will use to drive forward a range of service improvements, and the continued delivery of Akari Cares strategy.
Core responsibilities will include the following:
- Effectively led and manage the HR Admin function
- Support the Head of HR in providing a high-quality ER advisory service
- Provide ER Policy Training and Development
- Analyse the People Data and make recommendations to improve retention and colleague wellbeing
- Develop and review policies in line with legislation
- Develop and maintain relationships with colleagues across the business including Leeds Support, Home Managers and Regional Management team to ensure commercial and pragmatic approach to employee relations.
- To ensure the provision of advice to all managers regarding all aspects of employment procedure for all categories of staff
- To support on reducing sickness absence through active management of cases including short-term & long-term sickness
- To support on meeting the Company’s key performance indicators which relate to case work including sickness absence, grievance, investigations.
- To support with managing referrals to regulatory bodies where required
- Escalate cases and/or seek guidance from the HR Advisor(s) as and where required
- Collate, analyse and produce reports on a monthly basis where required
The successful candidate:
- Have a detailed knowledge of employment law
- Experience of providing senior level HR advice
- Ability to developing and implement policies across various HR disciplines
- Possess advance data analytical skills
- Can communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, to differing audiences
- Can prepare accurate written correspondence, with a focus on attention to detail
- Have demonstrable organisational skills
- Be able to prioritise tasks and to manage conflicting demands on time and resources, to deliver objectives
- Demonstrate high level of confidentiality
Must Have/Desirable:
- Able to advise on complex case management
- Manager training and coaching
- Line Management experience
- HR System implementation knowledge
- Experience in Health and Social Care
- Policy Writing
- Analysis of People Data
- Experience in a similar role
- Experience of handling confidential information
- CIPD qualified