Interim HR Business Partner (Fixed term contract)

HR Business Partner - Fixed Term Contract £51,600 + benefits (pro rata) | Bath | 4 days office, 1 day home Fixed Term Contract - 9 months (Maternity Cover) | 37 hours per week Starting: Early to mid-August 2025

Your Strategic Thinking. Our Ambitious Goals. Real Business Impact.

Looking for a challenging 9-month HR Business Partner contract where you can make real impact? You'll be at the heart of our transformation journey from day one, balancing strategic leadership support with running key initiatives that directly impact both colleagues and customers. You'll work alongside our HR team, bringing your expertise to drive immediate results while supporting critical business needs during maternity cover. As a profit-for-purpose organisation, we measure success by homes delivered and communities strengthened, not shareholder dividends.

What you'll be doing

Working as part of the HR Business Partner Team, you'll play a pivotal role in our transformation agenda from day one. This is about making immediate impact while maintaining business-critical HR support during a crucial period of change.

• Coach senior leaders and empower them to make informed decisions that drive business growth and improve team performance
• Act as a trusted advisor in planning and executing change initiatives focused on achieving measurable outcomes
• Lead strategic workstreams and people initiatives across Curo or within your specific business area
• Create organisational design using our Operating Model principles to attract great people and enable career pathways
• Foster continuous improvement by identifying and acting on areas for development in our service delivery
• Develop attraction and retention strategies to recruit the calibre of talent needed for our transformation journey
• Use people data and engagement insights to support strategic decision-making and create world-class engagement
• Manage complex employee relations cases, ensuring consistent policy application
• Collaborate with the Organisational Development team to implement talent and succession planning programmes

What you'll get in return

Beyond your salary and the opportunity to transform how we work, you'll get:

• 26 days annual leave per year (pro rata, plus bank holidays) rising to 29 days after 3 years
• Your birthday off as an extra holiday
• Up to 10% matched pension contribution
• Hybrid working (4 days office, 1 day home) - essential for building deep business partnerships
• Flexible benefits which might include a Health Cash Plan
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme supporting your wellbeing

More about you

We're looking for an experienced HR Business Partner who can hit the ground running. You're someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, bringing proven expertise to make immediate strategic impact. This isn't a development opportunity - we need someone ready to lead from day one and drive meaningful change during this critical 9-month period.

Essential:

• CIPD Chartered Membership (Level 7) or equivalent professional qualification
• Demonstrable experience as an HR Business Partner supporting leadership teams through significant change
• Commercial understanding with ability to influence and challenge constructively at senior levels
• Demonstrable experience of designing and implementing organisation structural change and operating model methodologies
• Strong knowledge of UK employment legislation and proven track record managing complex employee relations cases
• Experience coaching leaders to improve performance and implementing HR strategies aligned to business objectives
• Evidence of using people data to support strategic decision-making and organisational improvements

Our Recruitment Process

Our process includes a screening stage and a two-stage interview.

About Curo

We're a leading South West housing association with social purpose at our heart. As a profit-for-purpose organisation, we reinvest every penny we make back into better homes and stronger communities - that means your work directly creates social impact, not shareholder dividends. We're proud to be among the UK's top 100 companies to work for, and the 5th best housing association nationwide. We actively welcome applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBTQ+, from ethnic minority backgrounds, and from our Curo customers. We're committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone - if you need any adjustments to help you apply or interview, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@curo-group.co.uk