People Engagement Manager

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Location: Alcester

Since 1989, we've supported adults of all ages to maintain their independence and stay in the place they know and love. Because, life is better at home.

Helping Hands is the nation's most widely rated home care provider and the only one to be endorsed as a Centre of Excellence by Skills for Care. We have over 150 branches across England and Wales as well as our Support Office in Alcester, Warwickshire. We're now looking for a People Engagement Manager to join our team in Alcester.

This is a brand-new role in the People leadership team, reporting directly to the Chief People Officer. You will have the opportunity to develop and deliver the internal people engagement approach and plan that drives the right culture and attracts and retains the people we need. As the People Engagement Manager, you will partner with senior leaders and be responsible for engagement insight and planning, internal comms, wellbeing and recognition.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver key internal communications that engage various work profiles across the business
• Identify, recommend and deliver opportunities to improve internal communications, leveraging technology and innovation and improving effectiveness
• Lead and drive the delivery of a business wide engagement insight and action planning approach to improve engagement and implement key people engagement initiatives
• Drive our focus on wellbeing throughout the year
• Elevate our strong recognition approach to a whole new level
• Ensure our values and EVP are embedded throughout all to enhance our employer brand and drive the right culture
• Keep tabs on external best practice and drive changes on how apply this
• Manage the engagement budget and demonstrate clear ROI

About You

• Experienced in internal comms, ideally at a senior level in a fast paced, changing, commercial business environment
• Passionate about people engagement, wellbeing and recognition
• Outstanding communication and influencing skills - written and verbal
• Knowledge of engagement tools, processes, data and insight eg. Employee surveys internally and externally hosted
• Creative thinker and natural team player
• Highly digitally and data savvy with good experience of technical internal comms technology and platforms

Benefits

• Career progression opportunities
• Hybrid working, with 50% of your time based at our support office in Alcester
• 23 days annual leave, rising to 25 after 2 years of service
• Blue Light Card offering discounts from business and services
• Access to our employee assistance programme
• Annual salary review

Helping Hands is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce as we believe this develops a comfortable working environment for all our staff. All applications will be treated fairly in line with our Equality and Diversity Policy.