People Consultant

What we’re looking for:

• Do you thrive on strategic thinking and projects?  
• Do you have experience and can confidently manage a variety of change programmes such as restructures, redundancies and TUPE?
• Are you able to manage multiple projects and follow through on deadlines while tracking progress and building in contingency plans?
• Are you able to work collaboratively within a team environment and cross organisationally, supporting colleagues where needed to ensure delivery of piece of work/project?
• Do you have experience working as part of a People and Culture team?

If so, this role is perfect for you! Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for a People Consultant on a permanent basis, supporting a number of business areas including Care, Supported Housing, Communities and Corporate Services.

This role offers a hybrid approach with a minimum of two days in the office each week based at our Westminster Bridge Road office. Regular travel will be needed to Peabody sites throughout Essex including Colchester and Pitsea.

A bit about the role
As a People Consultant, you will support the Strategic Partner to deliver a high level of ‘People’ business support including building strategic leadership capabilities, assessing effectiveness within the business area, and to operationally support the delivery and embedding of change.

Some of the key results for the role include: 

• Work closely to support the Strategic Partner in delivering Local People Plans.
• Operationally deliver and support on restructure and redundancy processes (incl. TUPE).
• Ask the right questions and has the confidence to challenge the business and leaders.
• Create and pull data and evidence together, analyse this and put forward recommendations, evaluating and reviewing success and failures and can feedback to the business where appropriate.
• Use and apply evidence to support business cases or decisions.

A bit about us
160 years after it was established, Peabody is one of the oldest not-for-profit housing associations in the UK. The Peabody Group is responsible for more than 107,000 homes, with around 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties. We also have around 20,000 care and support customers.

Our purpose is to help people flourish, and we are getting closer to residents by taking a local approach. We are committed to delivering a responsive and easily accessible repairs service and investing in our existing homes so they are safe and well maintained. Our retrofit projects will make thousands of our homes more energy efficient.

We work with councils and communities to promote economic inclusion, tackle inequality and poverty, and prioritise wellbeing.

Here are just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody: 

• Flexible and hybrid working (depending on the role) 
• Up to 30 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays   
• Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates  
• Two additional paid volunteering days each year  
• Flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal