About the Role

Join Us in Transforming Lives as Our Director of People and Culture. At Alternative Futures Group, we've been at the heart of positive change for over 30 years, providing exceptional support to individuals with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. As an organisation officially recognised as a Great Place to Work, we are proud to offer a supportive, inclusive, and engaging work environment. We are now seeking a strategic, compassionate, and dynamic Director of People and Culture to lead and inspire our award-winning team. If you're passionate about creating a thriving workplace culture and want to play a key role in shaping the future of a purpose-driven organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

Job Purpose

The Director of People & Culture will be the expert voice on their area within the Charity, demonstrating strong leadership, championing collaboration and focused on delivery. The post-holder will be forward thinking and solution focused to ensure we have the required skills, knowledge and expertise to be able to deliver outstanding personalised support that creates independence and value. You will need to understand long-term threats and opportunities from a people perspective that may impact strategic plans, whilst at the same time having attention to detail on the monitoring of the day to day delivery. You will be responsible for ensuring that a comprehensive People & Organisational Development strategy is in place that enables the charity to meets it strategic objectives. The Director will work closely with senior leadership to ensure the alignment of people strategies with organisational goals which enhance employee experience, optimize performance, and continue the cultural development supporting Alternative Futures Group as a Great Place to Work. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, the post holder will collaborate with colleagues to plan, develop and implement strategic and operational plans to deliver the charity\'s objectives.

Dimensions

• 2 direct reports and a wider team of more than 45 colleagues
• Budget responsibility of up to £5m
• Portfolio responsibilities include:
• Recruitment
• Employee Relations
• Payroll
• Employee Experience including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Learning
• Organisational Development

Principal Accountabilities

• Responsible for refreshing and delivering on the People & Organisational Development Strategy, supporting strategies and associated success measurements.
• Responsible for setting a clear direction contributing to the Annual Business Plan and associated budget, ensuring that all parts of the organisation are delivering in support of being a Great Place to Work
• Ensure the day-to-day delivery of People and Learning activity is customer focused supporting the delivery of high-quality care and support.
• Ensure effective monitoring and reporting across the People agenda ensuring compliance, performance, effective use of resources (money and people) and risk is proactively managed.
• Prepare and present comprehensive reports and dashboards on behalf of the Chief People Officer.
• To drive continuous improvement utilising the use of process improvement methodology and technology opportunities wherever possible.
• Ensure the People function remains outward looking (both within and outside of the Health and Social Care sector) to maintain the Charity\'s advantages it has gained in the market in relation to it\'s Employee Value Proposition. Identifying opportunities, producing proposal and business cases for the Board to consider in order to continue development of AFG\'s EVP.
• Work closely with all key stakeholders to shape the development of a high-performing People and Learning support service that builds capacity, capability and culture.
• Support the organisation to meet and deliver it\'s growth and development agenda, through proactive leadership of people and culture issues and timely programmes of activity.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements as they relate to all People and Learning matters.
• Oversee in house monthly payroll, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements.
• Exceptional leadership skills, engendering respect from others
• Highly developed interpersonal influencing and communication skills
• Capable public speaker with the ability to engage and network effectively with organisations within the public, private and voluntary sectors
• Ability to engage positively with staff, Trustees, people supported and their families
• Innovative and solution focussed, analytical and creative, but fast paced and agile
• Politically astute
• Astute negotiator, able to grasp relevant issues and understand the relationships between interested parties
• Sound knowledge and understanding of corporate governance

Values and Attitudes

• Champions collaboration and coproduction
• Accountability - is comfortable with scrutiny, support and challenge of oneself and others
• Growth mindset
• Commitment to continuous improvement
• Resilient and self-driven
• Drives outcomes whilst supporting individuals and teams

Experience

• Strong track record of leadership within a significant organisation
• Formulating strategies and plans of action to achieve objectives
• Proven ability to think strategically
• Proven track record of delivering high performance
• Senior Leadership experience in the public, private or voluntary sectors
• Overseeing complex inhouse payroll
• Experience of creating and implementing strategic recruitment initiatives in competitive markets
• Experience of delivering significant people transformation projects

Qualifications & Training

• CIPD level 7

Other

• Will be required to travel within the North-West (needs to be able to drive).

With our extended flexible working options, you can choose to work a 9-day fortnight or a 4.5-day week, supporting our employees with their work life balance.

This role is Band IV as per our structure.

Interview Dates: 1st stage - 8th October - Liverpool in person
2nd Stage - 10th October - Informal - meet the team (optional)
3rd stage - 13th October - Teams interview

About Us

We\'re Alternative Futures Group, a health and social care charity providing specialist support for people with a learning disability or mental health condition. We\'re proud to have been positively changing lives and enabling people to achieve amazing outcomes for over 30 years. We have a vision to create a world where amazing people do amazing things every day. Our skilled and experienced teams work with every person we support to create a personalised, outcome-focused plans to achieve their aspirations. As a 'values based' employer, the people that work for us genuinely care about the people they support, and we are seeking likeminded people to join our team. If you are passionate about working in Health and Social Care and have a real desire to make a positive difference to the lives of the people we support then we would love to hear from you. At AFG we also recognise the contribution and value that our staff make. We would not be able to provide the life changing support that we do without people like you! In return for your contribution we will support you throughout your career and we provide a wide range of employee benefits, career development and lifestyle support services to ensure that you too feel supported, fulfilled and valued from day one of your employment with us.