Senior Manager, People & Culture

Senior Manager, People & Culture

Senior Manager, People & Culture

Location: Dublin or Kilkenny (with regular nationwide travel)
Reporting to: CEO

About Odyssey Social Care

Odyssey Social Care is one of Ireland's leading residential care providers, delivering high-quality, trauma-informed care to young people across Ireland. As part of the Broadlake Group, we are focused on sustainable growth while creating a positive impact for young people, employees, and communities.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager, People & Culture to lead and develop our people strategy during an exciting period of growth.

This senior leadership role will drive organisational culture, employee relations, workforce planning, learning and development, employee engagement, wellbeing, and HR compliance across a growing and values-led organisation.

About the role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver the People & Culture strategy aligned with organisational goals.
• Drive workforce planning, organisational design, and people development initiatives.
• Lead employee relations, governance, and HR compliance within a regulated environment.
• Ensure readiness for inspections, audits, and regulatory requirements, including TUSLA and CORU standards.
• Oversee HR systems, reporting, people analytics, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead employee engagement, wellbeing, retention, and culture programmes.
• Develop leadership capability, learning pathways, and succession planning frameworks.
• Champion Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, including neurodiversity and accessibility initiatives.
• Support ESG and sustainability objectives through people-focused initiatives.
• Monitor and report on key people metrics, including retention, engagement, development, and compliance.

About You:

Essential

• Significant senior HR leadership experience in a complex, regulated, or multi-site environment.
• Experience leading organisational change, workforce planning, and culture development initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of Irish employment law and HR best practice.
• Experience managing employee relations, governance, and compliance.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Experience using people data and insights to support organisational performance.

Desirable

• Experience within social care, healthcare, disability services, education, childcare, or another regulated sector.
• Experience in organisational development, learning and development, coaching, or leadership development.
• Experience supporting ESG, sustainability, or B Corp-aligned initiatives.

Why Join Odyssey?

This is an opportunity to shape the people agenda of one of Ireland's leading social care providers during a significant period of growth. You'll play a key role in building a high-performing, values-led culture that supports our people and the young people we serve.

Odyssey Social Care is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

About the company

Odyssey Social Care is a children's residential care provider in Ireland. We support young people by providing secure and safe homes and by building trusting and meaningful relationships with our teams.

We work therapeutically with our young people to support them through past hurts and traumas.

We go on the journey with our young people, empowering them to be the best version of themselves.