People Partner
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Action for Children is seeking a full-time People Partner to provide expert HR guidance to complex people issues from a remote UK base. You’ll join the People Advice Team, delivering coaching and HR advice to senior management, supporting corporate initiatives and bid work, and helping build a coaching culture while working with trade unions. The ideal candidate will have a CIPD qualification with coaching or mediation training, solid HR management or business partnering experience, practical TUPE and employment law knowledge, and strong stakeholder engagement plus data-driven decision making. To apply, tailor your CV to show measurable impact, TUPE handling, coaching outcomes, and collaboration with leaders; closing date 28 July 2026 and MS Teams interviews week of 10 August. Visa sponsorship not available.
People Partner.
Salary: £40,400 per annum.
Location: Remote, must be located permanently in the UK.
Contract: Permanent – 35 hours per week.
Benefits:
29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
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Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.
A bit about the role
We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic People Partner on a full-time permanent contract to provide solutions and guidance to complex people related queries and tasks that enable management to continue to achieve their business objectives across the UK.
You will also undertake or support specific corporate initiatives to enable the organisation and its services to develop and grow, in line with the organisational business plan.
How you'll help to create brighter futures
Through the People Advice Team, you will provide a first-class service of specialist HR advice and coaching.
You will use best practice and insight gained from continued learning to provide pragmatic and informed solutions and ideas.
You will source and use existing data to produce quantitative and qualitative data.
Work collaboratively and engagingly with senior management.
Provide expertise and contribution with bid and implementation teams, providing detailed and insightful knowledge and experience.
You will take a lead role to create a coaching culture within the People Advice Team.
Work in partnership and develop effective working relationships with our trade union partners.
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Undertake a lead role to create a coaching culture within the People Advice Team, to build capacity and capability for the People Advisers to develop their skills.
Let's talk about you
CIPD professional qualification with formal coaching and or mediation training would be desirable.
Experience in an HR Management and/or Business Partnership role.
Experience of managing TUPE transfers and proven knowledge of the law affecting TUPE.
Knowledge of a range of HR/OD theories, practices, frameworks, and tools.
A good working knowledge of employment law.
Sound knowledge of coaching and leadership development practices.
Engages powerful parties and mediates conflict well.
Exercises sound judgement based on logical thinking, best practice, organisational understanding, and evidence.
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Prominent levels of emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and empathy to build effective relationships.
Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.
Contact: email us at [email protected] quoting reference 13443.
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Closing Date: Tuesday 28th July 2026.
Interviews will be held via MS Teams week commencing 10th August 2026.
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
See below for further information about working with us: