People Change Partner

We’re looking for a People Change Partner to join our team and lead strategic business change programmes, including people projects, restructures, and TUPE processes. ​ Reporting to the Head of People Change, you’ll play a key role in delivering initiatives that align with Southern Housing’s vision and values. ​

Our HEART values – Honest, Efficient, Accountable, Respectful, Trusted – guide our actions, behaviours, and decisions every day.

What You’ll Be Doing: ​

• Leading people projects, ensuring alignment with business aims, risk, budget, legal compliance, and timeframes. ​
• Managing TUPE processes and restructures, ensuring compliance with policy, legislation, and timelines. ​
• Partnering with the People team and stakeholders to deliver a value-added people service. ​
• Providing expert advice on workforce and succession planning, recruitment, and talent programmes with a focus on inclusion and diversity. ​
• Collaborating with the wider People team to ensure accurate colleague data and effective pay, reward, and benchmarking decisions. ​
• Working with Unison and Colleague Forum representatives to ensure smooth communication and processes. ​
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, diversity, and alignment with our HEART values. ​
• Supporting employee relations issues, ensuring a fair and legally compliant approach. ​

What You’ll Need: ​

• Proven experience leading people projects, including restructures and TUPE processes. ​
• Strong knowledge of UK employment legislation. ​
• Experience working with senior leaders, stakeholders, and trade unions or colleague forums.
• A track record of delivering business change and creating positive, value-added outcomes. ​
• CIPD Level 5 qualification (or equivalent experience). ​
• Desirable: ILM Level 5 Coaching, Mentoring, or Workplace Mediation qualification. ​

What We Offer:

• A chance to make a real impact in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. ​
• Hybrid working options to support work-life balance.

If you’re passionate about driving positive change, fostering inclusion, and aligning people strategies with organisational goals, we’d love to hear from you. ​ Apply today and help us create communities where everyone feels at home. ​

Location: Sittingbourne, Kent or Farringdon, London (Hybrid)
Contract - Fixed Term - Full-time until 30 September 2026

Southern Housing is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. ​ We welcome applications from all backgrounds. ​

Closing date for applications will be Sunday 2nd November 2025

Interviews will be conducted on Thursday 20th November 2025

About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you

• Pension
• Life assurance
• Healthcare cash plan
• Eyecare & dental
• Birthday leave
• Retailers discounts
• Cycle to work
• Buy & sell annual leave
• Season ticket loan
• In-house academy & career development
• Flexible working

Inclusion and Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it’s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual. We’re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.