Job Title: Head of People
Location: Remote (with occasional travel)
Salary: £60,000-£62,000
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full time – 37 hours per week
Closing date: 20 March 2025
Interviews: 28 March 2025
As Head of People, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping SignHealth’s culture, engagement, and workforce strategy. You will lead on employee relations, recruitment, reward, and wellbeing, ensuring that our people feel valued, motivated, and set up for success. Acting as a trusted adviser to senior leadership, you’ll influence key decisions that directly impact our people and the communities we serve.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive Strategic HR Leadership – Support the Director of People in delivering our 3-Year Plan & People Strategy.
- Lead Organisational Culture – Champion a positive, inclusive, and high-performing workplace.
- Oversee Reward & Recognition – Ensure fair and competitive pay, benefits, and recognition programmes.
- Enhance Recruitment & Retention – Develop inclusive hiring and talent management strategies.
- Champion Employee Wellbeing & Engagement – Lead initiatives to increase staff satisfaction and motivation.
- Ensure Compliance & Best Practice – Maintain HR policies, employment law adherence, and data-driven decision-making.
About You
- Senior HR leadership experience, ideally in the charity or healthcare sector.
- Proven success in delivering People projects and cultural change initiatives.
- In-depth knowledge of UK employment law, HR best practices, and compliance.
- Expertise in recruitment, talent management, and succession planning.
- Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills.
- BSL Level 2 (or willingness to learn) to engage with our deaf-led culture.
Why Join Us?
At SignHealth, you will be part of a passionate and dedicated team, making a real difference to the lives of deaf people. We offer a supportive, inclusive work environment and opportunities for professional growth.
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We will work alongside you during your career with SignHealth to maximise your full potential with training and development to help you become the best you!
Working with your line manager you will receive an in-depth induction to give you great insight into our charity and what we do.
You will find out the role you will play in helping SignHealth deliver its mission.
Join our learning pathway with BSL, we offer paid training and development to further your BSL knowledge.
Wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do! It’s not just about our clients, it’s about you too.
Being a SignHealth employee you will also receive:
- 25 days holiday per holiday year plus bank holidays (pro-rata)
- 2 wellbeing days (pro-rata)
- After 3 months auto enrolled in the NOW pension scheme at prevailing rates
- After successful completion of probation period (normally 6 months) eligible to join Scottish widows pension employee contributes 5%, employer 6%
- Eye care vouchers
- 5 days paid study leave per year (CPD) (pro-rata)
- Expenses policy which allows payments for items when working away from home
- 2x salary life assurance scheme (death in service)
- Fully funded BSL training
- Generous sick pay policy
- Refer a friend £200 voucher for both the referee and referrer.
If this sounds like a position you would be interested in, please apply today!
To apply, please complete the online application or email sdaniels@signhealth.org.uk with your CV and supporting statement.
We positively encourage applications from deaf people, disabled people, people of colour and people from the LGBT+ community. We will support all applicants along the journey of our recruitment process.
Offers of work are subject to: Enhanced DBS checks, Right to Work checks, satisfactory references and Medical Health clearance.
SignHealth do not hold a sponsorship licence. If you require sponsorship to work in the UK then unfortunately we are unable to consider your application.
