Head of People

We're a growing organisation with 605 employees, 4000 volunteers and a projected income of £43m. Guided by the Parkinson s community, we ve shaped our strategy Every Parkinson s Journey for 2023 to 2026 . Our strategic aims are focused on improving access to health and care; improving our community offer and continuing with our groundbreaking research.

About the role

Our people are critical in helping us to achieve our strategic aims. We want to continue to develop and maintain a culture that is empowering, where all staff and volunteers feel supported and valued.

We are looking for an experienced Head of People to deliver both strategic leadership and operational excellence across all people functions.

Leading a team of 11, you will provide strategic business partnering and support across the organisation, ensuring the quality of experience and wellbeing of everyone that works at Parkinson s UK, driving forward a culture of listening, and supporting our people to embrace and deliver change.

What you ll do:

• Lead, coach, mentor and develop the People team and People Partners to deliver the operational and strategic people requirements across the entire people portfolio

• Work in partnership and provide coaching, direction and support to Executive members (including the CEO) and leaders to enable them to deliver their teams plans and strategies

• Provide professional people advice, guidance and support with an up to date employment law input on a wide range of strategic and operational people issues. This will include leading on complex areas of change and providing guidance on employee relations cases

• Manage the people and establishment budgets and plans, setting the annual process ensuring effective financial control through the monitoring and review of the monthly management accounts.

• Work in partnership with the Associate Director of People & Culture in delivering the strategic agenda, People & Culture Strategy.

What you ll bring:

• Proven experience working as a People lead that includes, strategic Business Partnering and organisational change and restructures

• Demonstrable experience of managing complex employee relations issues including disciplinaries, grievances, appeals and performance management. This includes ETs and the interpretation of legislation for the purposes of internal policies and advice

• Proven experience of coaching and leading teams of professionals

• Experience of influencing and challenging executives within an organisational setting

• Ability to resolve difficult situations and problems that are people focused with proven attributes and approaches to reach logical, fair and inclusive outcomes

It s a particularly exciting time to be joining Parkinson s UK as the Board and Executive Leadership Team will be starting to shape our new strategy for 2027 onwards. We would love you to join us!

Please apply by sending us your CV, together with a detailed supporting statement which will fully demonstrate how you meet all the criteria of the role, as stated in the "What you'll bring" section of the job description.

As well as flexible working hours, this role is offered on a flexible contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home up to two days a week. You ll be required to cover your own travel expenses to the office.

Interviews for this role will be held on:

• 04 June - for a brief 1st stage interview

• 16 June - for a 2nd stage interview and assessment process

Anyone can get Parkinson s. It s vital that the people who work for Parkinson s UK are representative of our diverse community. We actively encourage people from all sections of the community to apply, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.