Job Description

HR Manager

Salary:

42,420 per annum

Hours:

36.25 per week

Contract:

Permanent, Full-time

Location:

Weelsby Campus, Grimsby (with travel to other sites as required/ Hybrid Working available)

Closing date:

Wednesday 4th June 2025

About Linkage

?Linkage Community Trust is a registered charity that supports people with learning disabilities and autism. We deliver high quality specialist education, care, community support, adult day services, employability and support services throughout Greater Lincolnshire and East Riding, Yorkshire and through Blueberry Academy personalised learning and employability in York and North Yorkshire. Everything we do is about valuing and supporting individuals, their carers and families to ensure that they can achieve their aspirations. We are committed to creating opportunities to improve the lives of individuals now and in future generations. This sets the tone for how we approach our work.

Due to internal promotion, we have an exciting opportunity to join us as

HR Manager.

This role is pivotal to help us shape our organisational culture. We are seeking an exceptional communicator who is self-motivated, solutions-driven and aligned with Linkage's missions and values.

About the Role

This is a management role within the Trust, responsible for the Recruitment, HR and Employee Relations functions.

The HR Manager will be joining a motivated team to lead on bringing people, process and technology together to deliver core services as efficiently and effectively as possible. The post-holder will promote our continued transformation and provide leadership for a broad array of HR functions, including all aspects of employee relations, transactional HR, recruitment, HRIS, reporting and compliance procedures.

In this directorate, you will manage a small team and report to the Associate Director of People and Culture. You will have responsibility for enabling change and for ensuring that the Linkage demonstrates best practice in all aspects of HR. The key measures of your success will be your ability to provide credible, up to date guidance on employee relations matters; to manage the HR office functions effectively; and to support colleagues in managing their teams confidently.

About You

Our values act as a guiding principles; Independence, Honesty, Respect and Teamwork. It's important that our colleagues can demonstrate these in all that they do. The following experience is essential:

The successful candidate will join Linkage Community Trust at an important and exciting time. We have an ambitious corporate strategy to provide person-centred services that enable individuals to develop skills and behaviours to live independent lives. If you prefer to be hands-on, you will thrive in this role. We are keen to appoint a candidate who has a successful track record of managing a team through positive change and in being a role model our management team colleagues.

This is a great chance to make your mark in an established and growing business - we are keen to talk to candidates who are already Level 5 CIPD qualified or equivalent, with a minimum of two years' experience in a similar role.

Benefits of working for Linkage

Generous Annual Leave package. Career progression. Flexible working options. Health and wellbeing package including employment, financial and mental health support. Life Assurance Scheme Eligibility for a Blue Light Card - 4.99 for 2 years' membership. Linkage Employee Perks and Discounts - BHSF. Linkage Lottery cash prizes. Long Service bonus every 5 years. Recommend a friend bonus.

Linkage Community Trust is proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Employer.

All applications for this vacancy are to be submitted online, and strictly no agency calls or agency CV submissions. Communication is undertaken via email, we advise you check your inbox and junk mail. Should you be offered a role, you will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check. Previous applicants need not apply.

Please note that the successful candidate(s) will be asked to evidence their right to work in the UK post-job offer, we are unable to offer sponsorship.

As an equal opportunities employer, Linkage Community Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Linkage

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 42,420.00 per year

Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Application question(s):

do you have a CIPD level 5?
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 04/06/2025