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Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, GB

Private Equity backed specialist healthcare with 32 sites across the UK and growing.

London, England, GB

Private Equity backed eye health care hospitals, with 400 employees in 10 locations across the UK and a turnover of £50m. Lead responsibility for the delivery of people & business change projects.

London, GB

• United Response is a commercially focused, national charity with 4,000 staff in over 400 locations and a turnover of £95m, supporting individuals with learning disabilities and mental health issues.
• Led project to centralise organisation wide recruitment function to deliver projected savings of £0.9m.
• Led successful merger and integration of charity into United Response, delivering additional income of £6m and increasing headcount by 500 employees.
• People lead to redesign target operating model for business support functions.
• Developed and implemented talent management strategy to implement a unified approach how we attract, recruit, develop and engage the workforce.
• Developed and implemented a new Employer Brand to improve talent acquisition.

London, GB

• Led HR transformation from a traditional, reactive function into a high performing, credible team.
• Implemented HR business partnering model, developing credible relationships with key stakeholders to reposition the function.
• Implemented a commercial approach to employee relations case management, delivering a reduction in number of cases, sickness absence of 20% and cost of suspension of £180k in one year.
• Developed and implemented key performance indicators to provide workforce information to shape people strategy.
• Led review of reward strategy and implemented changes to terms and conditions to deliver savings of £0.9m.
• Project lead in development and implementation of Midland HR iTrent HR Information System (HRIS).

• Working closely with Executive Management Team to support the achievement of strategic objectives through the design and implementation of a learning, organisational development and leadership strategy. Abbeyfield.
• Developed and implemented learning and organisational development strategy.
• Established integrated organisation wide learning and development framework to deliver high quality service provision, including online learning portal, induction, mandatory and developmental training.
• Developed and implemented first organisational leadership development programme.
• Project lead in significant organisational change programme, including merging two operational divisions, structure and role redesign, to deliver enhanced service provision and internal efficiencies.
• Developed and implemented internal communication strategy, to achieve strategic aims and increase employee engagement.

• Working with senior teams to increase organisational and people effectiveness to deliver business strategy. Key achievements include:
• Development of HR strategies in partnership with in house teams to achieve business aims.
• HR functional transformation.
• Development of a practical toolkit to equip leaders to understand and implement business strategy and develop drivers of employee engagement within a large, national charity.
• Development and implementation of several Employee Engagement surveys including survey design, communication strategy, analysis of results and clear direction on areas for improvement to senior management teams.
• Successful merger of two national charities, including TUPE, communication and consultation strategy.

GB

• Responsible for the Professional Services, Consultancy and Corporate Divisions with 1,500 employees in sites across the UK. Erinaceous was a rapidly expanding, highly acquisitive FTSE 500 property services company with.
• Provision of advice and support on complex ER issues to senior leadership team.
• Led three successful acquisitions, from due diligence through to integration, increasing revenue by £24m.
• Led review Group wide acquisition and integration processes.
• Development of HR communications strategy to raise the profile and improve the reputation of Group HR.

London, London, GB

• Successfully project management of a number of key organisational development initiatives at Dennis, a privately owned magazine publishing company, with around 350 employees and an annual turnover of over £85m.
• Developed and implemented learning and development strategy.
• Designed and implemented first Leadership Development Programme and Management Skills Programme.
• Designed and implemented first Employee Engagement Survey.
• Provision of advice and support to managers in all areas of employee relations.

London, GB

• Responsible for employee relations, management development, policy development and pay administration.
• HR lead in multiple TUPE incoming and outgoing transfers.
• Designed and facilitated training on core management competencies for national Leadership Development Programme
• Developed and managed campaigns to address acute recruitment shortages, including targeting overseas and older workers
• Project managed first Staff Survey, including questionnaire design, internal communication, analysis of results and recommendations for action.

London, GB

• Responsible for all recruitment up to Executive Director level.
• Development of recruitment strategy to address acute shortages
• Provision of advice and solutions on all ER related areas.

Llb (Hons) Law

Post Graduate Diploma In Hrm