Lead People Business Partner

The People and Culture team plays a vital role in enabling Spurgeons frontline services to deliver the best possible support to children, young people and families. By partnering with managers, strengthening HR practice, supporting wellbeing and ensuring colleagues feel equipped and valued, we help create the conditions for teams to thrive. When our people are supported, confident and able to do their best work, the children and families we serve feel the benefit. This role sits at the heart of that mission.

Interview date 29th January 2026 Remote with travel to services across Birmingham, Wiltshire & Surrey

PLEASE NOTE WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THIS ADVERT EARLY IF WE RECEIVE A HIGH VOLUME OF APPLICATIONS.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As our Lead People Business Partner, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing our HR Business Partnering function. This is an exciting opportunity for a confident and experienced HR professional who enjoys improving practice, coaching others, and ensuring managers are equipped to lead their teams well.

Lead, develop and motivate the HRBP team to deliver a consistent, high‑quality partnering service aligned to organisational priorities. Assess the current HRBP service, identify strengths and gaps and deliver a clear improvement plan. Provide hands‑on support for employee relations, ensuring timely, fair and compliant resolution. Review and refresh HR policies and procedures, ensuring clarity, compliance and accessibility. Lead the operational implementation of required elements of the Employee Rights Bill. Support organisational change projects including restructures, TUPE, and role redesign. Build trusted relationships with managers and leaders, offering calm, practical and solution‑focused advice. Promote wellbeing and inclusion initiatives that support our people and culture priorities. Oversee key elements of the employee lifecycle, supporting managers to lead with confidence. ABOUT YOU

We’re looking for someone who is confident, people‑focused and committed to developing others. You will bring:

Experience as an HR Business Partner or HR Manager, with a strong understanding of partnering practice. Proven ability to coach, mentor and grow HR colleagues and managers to build capability and confidence. Skilled and confident handling complex ER cases with a balanced, fair and pragmatic approach. Strong knowledge of UK employment law and best practice in policy development. Experience supporting organisational change (restructures, role redesign, TUPE). The ability to juggle multiple priorities, stay organised and deliver to deadlines. Strong presentation and facilitation skills for delivering training and workshops. A calm, diplomatic communication style that builds trust and credibility at all levels. A proactive, solutions‑focused mindset with an eye for improvements in process and practice. Ability to travel independently to services across Birmingham, Wiltshire and Surrey as required. Most of all, you will be passionate about enabling our people to thrive so that they can deliver their very best for the children, young people and families we support.

The Company

Spurgeons is one of the UK's leading children's charities, firmly supported by Christian beliefs and values, helping to support vulnerable children and their families through delivering projects to support children, young people, their families, and communities to find long-lasting solutions to the challenges they face.

We create family hubs where we’re needed most, providing support with mental health, special educational needs, domestic abuse and all of family life’s challenges. We work through children and family centres, churches, schools and prisons. Putting children first in everything.

The Benefits

Continuous professional development In house learning platform Employee Assistance Programme Salary sacrifice pension with employers contribution of up to 7% Enhanced maternity and paternity pay BHFS Health Cash Plan Life assurance 2 times annual salary Enhanced annual leave Additional paid time off at Christmas Flu vouchers Eye test reclaim If you want to find out more about working at Spurgeons please visit our website.

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people we serve. This post is subject to necessary safeguarding checks including an appropriate level DBS Disclosure.

Spurgeons is a Living Wage Employer.

We actively encourage applications from a broad and deep range of backgrounds and experiences. We are a Disability Confident Employer.