HR Manager
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Chwefror 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £78,000 i £82,000 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | ME16 8BS |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Purosearch |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | JOB-57363-20726 |
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HR Manager
Kent
Salary: £78,000-£82,000
Purosearch are working with a developing care provider to recruit a HR / People Manager!
This is a great opportunity for a senior people manager / HR Manager who has previously worked in the care sector!
You will be able to split your time between working from Home and travelling across the care services in Kent. Driving licence is essential.
Role Overview
• The HR Manager provides strategic and operational leadership across the organisation’s core support functions, including HR, Payroll, and Recruitment.
• This senior leadership role ensures these services are compliant, efficient, data-driven, and fully aligned with the demands of a regulated healthcare environment. The postholder will support safe staffing levels, a positive colleague experience, and high-performing services across multiple sites.
• Reporting to the Board of Directors, the role is responsible for building and developing a capable team, embedding consistent policies and processes, driving continuous improvement, and providing expert advice on workforce strategy, risk, and organisational capability.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and deliver a comprehensive People Operations strategy aligned to organisational goals, including growth, occupancy, quality, and workforce stability.
• Lead, manage, and develop the HR, Payroll, and Recruitment teams, setting clear objectives, service standards, and performance expectations.
• Act as a trusted senior advisor to operational leaders and the Board on workforce planning, organisational design, change management, and people-related risk.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality onboarding, probation, and performance management processes across all sites.
• Own and maintain HR policies, procedures, and toolkits to ensure best practice and full legal compliance (including contracts, disciplinary and grievance processes, absence management, and flexible working).
• Provide oversight and expert guidance on complex employee relations cases, coaching managers to build confidence, capability, and consistency in approach.
• Lead the end-to-end recruitment strategy, including workforce planning, attraction, selection, offer management, and onboarding.
• Ensure safe recruitment practices and a positive candidate experience across all services.
• Maintain full compliance with sector-specific pre-employment requirements, including DBS checks, Right to Work verification, references, and professional registrations, ensuring audit readiness at all times.
• Provide senior oversight of payroll operations, ensuring accuracy, robust controls, reconciliations, and compliance with statutory obligations, working closely with Finance.
• Support external audit requirements by ensuring payroll information is supplied accurately and within agreed timeframes.
• Establish and maintain high-quality people data, dashboards, and reporting frameworks, covering metrics such as turnover, vacancies, time-to-hire, absence, employee relations trends, and training compliance.
• Ensure effective payroll governance across starters and leavers, pay changes, statutory leave, overtime, allowances, and deductions.
• Ensure documented processes, clear audit trails, and robust reporting systems are consistently maintained.
• Build strong and collaborative relationships with the Finance Department, Service Managers, Regional Clinical Operations Managers, and the Board.
• Support organisational change initiatives, including restructures, TUPE transfers, acquisitions, and harmonisation programmes, ensuring effective communication and risk management.
What You Will Bring!
ESSENTIAL
• CIPD Level 5 (minimum); Level 7 desirable.
• Proven HR leadership experience within a multi-site, operational environment.
• Demonstrable experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law, employee relations case management, and HR governance.
• Experience partnering with senior operational leaders in a fast-paced setting.
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to translate workforce data into actionable insight and measurable outcomes.
DESIREABLE
• Experience within healthcare or social care (e.g., care homes, hospitals, or other regulated settings).
• Experience overseeing payroll operations or managing a strong interface with Finance or an outsourced payroll provider.
SKILLS & BEHAVIOURS
• High integrity, sound judgement, and discretion.
• Influential communicator with the confidence to coach, support, and constructively challenge leaders.
• Strategic thinker with strong operational execution.
• Service-oriented mindset.
• Strong prioritisation and organisational capability.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Act at all times in accordance with corporate governance standards, employment legislation, and ethical business conduct.
• Comply with responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), ensuring the safety of self and others.
• Demonstrate flexibility to meet the evolving needs of the organisation.
• Maintain full compliance with all company policies and procedures.
If you are interested in the opportunity and have the required skills, experiences & characteristics give Ross a call on 02079527641 or send your CV to r.purbrick @ purosearch.com