Human Resources Business Partner (Adult Care)

Location: Wolverhampton (Regional travel required across the UK, including occasional overnight stays)
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 per annum (Dependent on experience)
Date Posted: 08 June 2026
Closing Date: 31 July 2026
Reference: SYS-25745

Role Overview

Are you an accomplished HR professional with deep roots in the Adult Social Care sector, looking for a definitive strategic partnership role?

Supportive Bridge Staffing Agency is proud to partner with CareTech, a market-leading specialist social care provider with a 30-year track record of excellence. We are seeking a commercial, strategic, and values-driven HR Business Partner to align directly with the Performance Director and senior stakeholders across the Specialist Services Division.

In this generalist leadership role, you will champion an open, compliant, and thriving workforce culture across your division, directly managing an HR Advisor and an HR Administrator. By driving change, leading complex ER casework, and overseeing regional compliance, you will play a crucial role in CareTech's core mission: creating "Extraordinary Days, Every Day."

Key Responsibilities

You will balance high-level strategic planning with pragmatic, hands-on operational HR leadership across the entire employee lifecycle.

Strategic Partnership & Team Leadership:

Senior Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with the Performance Director and Locality Managers to deliver tailored HR plans, organizational design, and talent analytics.
Line Management: Lead, mentor, and oversee an HR Advisor and an HR Administrator, ensuring high-quality, legally compliant service delivery.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Forge strong relationships with centralized Support Functions including Recruitment, L&D, Finance, Payroll, and IT.

Employee Relations & Change Management:

Complex ER Casework: Act as the escalation point for high-level employee relations issues, providing problem-solving advice on suspensions, complex investigations, disciplinaries, grievances, and discrimination cases.
Litigation & Conciliation: Lead on employment tribunals for your assigned services and manage early conciliation with ACAS.
Structural Change: Drive and manage structural updates, including restructuring, harmonization, redundancy planning, consultations, and TUPE processes.

Compliance, Safeguarding & Well-being:

Strict Care Compliance: Provide oversight on specialized care sector compliance, including Enhanced DBS vetting, Right to Work checks, and the Sponsorship of overseas workers.
Absence & Health Management: Advise on long-term sickness and capability cases in accordance with the Equality Act, collaborating closely with Occupational Health.
Special Projects: Champion culture-driven projects focused on staff surveys, employee engagement, well-being initiatives, and policy development.

Who We Are Looking For

You are an autonomous, analytically sharp HR leader who pairs solid commercial awareness with a thorough knowledge of the compliance and safeguarding frameworks that protect vulnerable adults.

Essential Requirements:

Sector Expertise: Proven HR experience working directly within an Adult Social Care / Care environment.
Safeguarding Knowledge: Clear understanding of Adult Safeguarding principles, CQC protocols, and local authority reporting.
Employment Law: Excellent, up-to-date knowledge of UK Employment Law and case law.
Change Delivery: Demonstrated capability in driving, managing, and sustaining organizational change.
Mobility: A full UK driving licence and the willingness to travel across the UK (with occasional overnight stays) to visit services not easily accessed by public transport.

Desirable Attributes:

CIPD Level 5 Qualification (or equivalent experience).
Prior HR business partnering experience within a fast-paced commercial environment.

What We Offer

CareTech is a proud Disability Confident Leader that highly values its corporate infrastructure. Joining the team unlocks an outstanding rewards package:

Financial & Benefits: Highly competitive salary, Stakeholder Pension, and Recommend-a-Friend bonus schemes.
Time Off: Up to 28 days of annual leave (inclusive of Bank Holidays).
Lifestyle & Wellbeing: Access to a Blue Light Card for retail discounts, a Free Employee Assistance Programme, and the CareTech Foundation grant scheme.
Recognition: Attendance at the Annual Employee Awards Evening and corporate recognition schemes.
Career Progression: Continuous professional development pathways, with funded access to qualifications up to degree level.
Fully Covered: Your Enhanced DBS check is 100% funded and paid for by the company.