Learning & Development Business Partner
Job Introduction
Job Title: Learning & Development Business Partner
Location: Homebased North West
Salary: circa £40,000
Hours: 35 – Monday to Friday
So…. What is this role exactly?
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Learning & Development Business Partner to join our in-house team of specialists, where you’ll be partnering with our Housing and Customer Services functions. You’ll also have the opportunity to lead on and be heavily involved in a number of critical projects, such as the roll out of our Talent and Apprenticeship strategies.
It’s a great time to join the team as we rise to the challenge of embracing new ways of working and supporting our people to respond to the challenges they face, through developing their technical, behavioural and leadership capabilities.
We are looking for someone with a passion for developing people to be their very best, and a keen creative eye for doing things differently. A tech-savvy Business Partner, ideally with knowledge of the Housing sector or experience working with customer facing business areas.
What will my working week look like?
You will be homebased, living within the North West, within a reasonable travelling distance of our Head Office in Warrington, to attend meetings and training courses.
Your working week is mostly designed by you - our Work Life Mix offers you a flexible approach focused on delivering outputs. In the role of Learning & Development Business Partner, you’ll deliver/ attend both face to face and remote events, to meet the demands of your customers, often finding yourself in our Youggle House a couple of times a week, but rarely for the full day.
What will I be responsible for doing?
First and foremost, you will be responsible for partnering with our Housing and Customer Services functions. You’ll have a strong focus on the further ‘professionalisation’ of these high-performing teams – which is a key output of the Housing White Paper.
One of the great things about this role is the ability to get involved with a breadth of Learning and Development opportunities.
You’ll be involved in designing, procuring, delivering and evaluating learning and development activity, in a variety of new and traditional ways, as well as getting involved in talent management, careers and apprenticeships and Diversity & Inclusion.
And what would make me stand out from the crowd?
To be a successful as Learning and Development Business Partner, here at YHG, you will have….
- experience of operating in a Business Partner capacity
- considerable end to end Learning & Development experience, including the ability to understand business need, develop / interpret strategy to create proven learning interventions that stick
- experience of digital content creation and curating
- experience of employee engagement
- demonstrable experience in the design, evaluation and delivery of talent pipelines, from functional management training to leadership development
Ideally you will ……
- be CIPD qualified or equivalent
- have the ability to take ownership and deliver outputs with minimum supervision
- have a passion for new ways of delivering Learning & Development in a tech-enabled environment
This role is really suited to someone who likes to build great relationships, see the impact their work has on our people and customers, and who likes to very much make the role their own.
And who are Your Housing Group?
Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford.
As one of the North’s sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year.
We’re an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.
That all sounds great, what’s in it for me?
In return we offer circa £40,000 for a 35-hour week, and 25 days) annual leave (holidays also increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays, but our employee deal offers much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.
At #TeamYHG we measure performance on outputs and quality, not hours and minutes. We offer a flexible, homeworking culture where you’re trusted to get the job done. If you need time for an appointment, the school run or an exercise class, if it fits with business needs, we’re open to what works for you too. And when you need to collaborate with your team, you can visit Youggle House – our purpose-built collaboration, wellbeing, and social space.
On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through BHSF, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments) and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.
For more of our great benefits, please review the benefits information sheet available by visiting the vacancy on our website - www.yourhousinggroup.co.uk/careers.
If you think this Business Partner role is the role for you, we would love to hear from you!
Closing Date: 21st July 2022
We review applications as they’re received and reserve the right to close this advert early; if you’re interested, please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment.
Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for anyone who resides in a Your Housing Group property and any applicants who declare they have a disability. If these applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview. Some roles may be subject to probity checks which will override the scheme where a potential conflict of interest or a probity matter has been identified. YHG2
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