Job Title:	HR Manager
Salary Range:	£50,000
Responsible To:	Assistant Director HR

1. Job Summary

Reporting directly to the Assistant Director of HR, the HR Manager will take ownership of a broad HR remit, delivering best-practice people solutions across the employee lifecycle. This role is suited to a confident, self-starting HR professional who can operate autonomously, drive change, and support a modern, compliant, and high-performing HR function.

As a key member of the management team, you will lead the people agenda, support operational delivery, and ensure an outstanding employee experience while mitigating organisational risk.

2. Organisation Chart

3. Key Tasks

Line manage, coach, and develop a small HR team.

Lead on complex and sensitive employee relations cases with a fair, consistent, and commercially focused approach.

4. Operational Tasks

Leadership & HR Function Ownership

Drive a high-performance, accountable, and inclusive culture.

Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and managers.

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Employee Relations & Compliance

Coach and support managers on ER matters and people management.

Ensure full compliance with UK employment law and HR best practice.

Lead HR audits including Right to Work, GDPR and employment documentation.

Build, implement, and maintain robust HR policies, procedures, and frameworks.

Manage organisational risk and liaise with external legal advisers as required.

Maintain compliance across workplace ethics, Health & Safety, security, and environmental responsibilities.

Facilitate effective working relationships with Trade Union representatives.

Performance, Learning & Engagement

Drive performance management frameworks and improvements.

Lead employee engagement initiatives to foster a positive employee experience.

Reward & HR Operations

Support salary benchmarking, pay reviews, and benefits processes.

Manage the employee lifecycle from hire to exit.

Provide comprehensive HR generalist support across the organisation.

HR Systems, Data & Reporting

Modernise and improve HR systems, processes, and automation.

Implement scalable, efficient HR workflows.

Produce HR reports, dashboards, and people insights to support decision-making.

5. Communications

To support the Assistant Director HR to produce bi-monthly reports to the Board of Directors on key HR areas such as change management, re-structuring, absence management retention and employee relations.

To ensure effective communication with all staff on relevant HR matters.

To attend meetings as required.

To ensure effective employment relationship management – seek to build and maintain trusting relationships with staff at all levels of the organisation and promote a positive culture within the organisation.

6. People Management

To provide values-based leadership for employees and teams to perform at their best in building and sustaining a high-performance culture.

To act as a role model and ambassador for Kisharon Langdon values and leadership behaviours.

To work in accordance with HR policy to resolve disciplinary issues, grievances and performance management ensuring issues are addressed as required.

To lead on recruitment and selection of new staff in partnership with the Assistant Director HR.

To identify and address knowledge or skill gaps and encourage training and personal development of self and the team.

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7. Key Values

In addition to undertaking the duties as outlined above, the post holder will be expected to adhere to the following:

Organisational Values

To behave in accordance with the organisation’s values of Respect, Integrity, Community and Excellence.

Equality & Diversity

To act in accordance with the Organisations Equality & Diversity Policy, which is designed to prevent discrimination of any kind.

Health & Safety

Ensure that all duties are carried out in line with the Organisation’s Health & Safety Policy.

Risk Management

Responsible for reporting complaints, incidents and near misses through the appropriate reporting procedures.

Responsibility for attending health & safety training as required.

Responsibility for assisting with risk assessments.

8. Note

This job description outlines the roles, duties and responsibilities of the post. It is not intended to detail all specific tasks. Kisharon Langdon reserves the right to alter the content of this job description to reflect the changing needs of the organisation, but is a correct reflection of the main duties of the post at the time of writing.

9. Acceptance

I agree to undertake the duties of the job in accordance with the above.

Signed: ……… …….. (Post Holder)

Name: …… ……. (Print)

Date: …

Signed: …… . (Line Manager)

Name: … ……. (Print)

Date: …

This document is to be signed and returned to the HR Department on your appointment and/or at the review point for Kisharon Langdon Job Descriptions. The signed copy will be retained on your personal file.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

HR Manager

	Essential	Desirable
Qualifications	Educated to degree level orequivalent professionalexperience.	CIPD qualification Level 5or above.
Knowledge & Experience	●Proven HR Manager orsenior HR experience acrossthe full employee lifecycle.Strong knowledge of UKemployment law and HRbest practice.Previous line managementexperience.Demonstrated experiencemanaging complex ER casesand HR audits.HRIS experience with theability to producemeaningful reports andinsights.	●HRIS experience withiTrent, BambooHR orWorkforce.Previous experience ofworking in the social caresector and knowledge ofcurrent safeguardingregulations.
Communication ＆ PeopleSkills	●Confident communicatorwith excellent telephonemanner.Excellent writtencommunication skills towrite well-structuredletters and reports.Previous experience ofconfidently managingstakeholders, able toinfluence at a senior level.Good communication andproblem-solving skills.Ability to work as part of ateam and provideconsistent support.
Organisation Skills	Highly organised withstrong attention to detailand a 'completer-finisher'mindset.Ability to work independently and managecompeting priorities.Excellent prioritising skillsand ability to be flexible in
Specialist Skills	order to support changing priorities. Able to work in a busy environment and to tight deadlines.
	Commercial mindset with the ability to balance people and organisation priorities. Experience of working with external legal advisors. Understanding of the need for confidentiality and ability to work with confidential data in a professional manner. Ability to work on a number of projects simultaneously. Ability to work with complex and sensitive information as required.
Other	Candidates should indicate an acceptance of and commitment to the principles underlying Equality & Diversity and Health & Safety Policies.