People Services Delivery Partner

People Services Delivery Partner

Location: Hybrid – 1-2 days per week in our Bradford office with flexibility to attend as required.

Contract: Full-time | Permanent

Salary: £48,000 per annum

We're looking for an experienced People Services Delivery Partner to lead a high-quality, coaching-led Employee Relations and People Administration service across our organisation. Reporting to the People Services Manager – Service Delivery, this is a key leadership role, responsible for ensuring colleagues and managers receive a seamless, professional and customer-focused service that supports the organisation's people priorities.

Combining Employee Relations expertise, employment law knowledge and strong people leadership, you'll lead a team delivering expert advice, operational excellence and continuous improvement. Acting as a trusted partner to leaders across the business, you'll help shape an efficient and scalable People Services Delivery function that builds manager capability, enhances colleague experience and delivers practical and commercially focused people solutions.

What You'll Do

Lead and develop a high-performing People Services team, bringing together Employee Relations and People Administration into a seamless, customer-focused service that delivers consistent, high-quality support to colleagues and managers across the organisation. You'll create a culture of accountability, continuous learning and service excellence, ensuring the team is recognised as a trusted and credible partner.

Provide expert leadership on complex and high-risk employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, absence, capability, organisational change, restructures, senior leader cases and matters with significant legal, financial or reputational risk. You'll ensure robust, fair and legally compliant outcomes while balancing commercial and organisational priorities.

Build strong, influential relationships with leaders and stakeholders across the business, developing a deep understanding of operational challenges, workforce trends and organisational priorities. You'll use this insight to provide proactive advice, identify risks and opportunities early, and deliver people solutions that support business performance and colleague experience.

Champion a coaching-led approach to people management, empowering managers to confidently navigate sensitive and complex people matters. You'll develop capability, challenge constructively where required and foster a culture where managers take ownership of people decisions, supported by expert guidance and coaching.

Act as the organisation's senior Employee Relations expert, applying deep employment law knowledge and commercial judgement to minimise risk, support decision-making and ensure people practices remain legally compliant, pragmatic and aligned to best practice.

Use data, trends and insight to drive proactive interventions and continuous improvement, identifying recurring themes, organisational risks and opportunities to improve manager capability, colleague experience and service effectiveness. You'll translate complex information into meaningful actions and measurable outcomes.

Lead the ongoing development and transformation of People Services, reviewing end-to-end HR administration and employee relations processes, simplifying ways of working, removing inefficiencies and creating a more streamlined, responsive and scalable service that meets the evolving needs of the business.

Drive innovation, technology adoption and automation, maximising the use of systems, self-service solutions and emerging technologies, including AI, to improve service delivery, reduce manual effort and enhance both colleague and manager experiences.

Partner with colleague representative groups and key internal stakeholders to build positive employee relations, strengthen engagement and ensure that organisational change, policy development and people initiatives are delivered collaboratively and effectively.

Play a key role in shaping the future direction of People Services, ensuring the function remains commercially focused, operationally effective and aligned to organisational objectives while delivering an outstanding experience for colleagues, managers and leaders alike.

You'll Bring

Extensive senior-level Employee Relations experience within a large, complex organisation, with a strong track record of managing complex, high-risk and sensitive people matters.

Expert knowledge of UK employment law, with the ability to provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice and sound judgement in complex situations.

Proven experience leading complex investigations, organisational change activity and cases involving senior stakeholders.

Strong coaching, influencing and relationship-building skills, with the ability to build manager capability and confidence at all levels.

Experience leading, developing and motivating high-performing HR, Employee Relations or People Services teams.

A collaborative and credible stakeholder partner, able to build trusted relationships across the business and influence positive outcomes.

Experience delivering service improvements, process optimisation and organisational change within HR, People Services or shared service environments.

Data-driven and commercially minded, using insight, trends and performance measures to inform decisions and improve service delivery.

A continuous improvement mindset, with the confidence to challenge existing approaches, embrace innovation and drive positive change.

Qualifications

CIPD Level 7 qualification (or equivalent experience)

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos. Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
• Free Blue Light Card

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste into your browser

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.