People Specialist

HR Hybrid Full Time 37.5 York YO26 4GN

Ready to step up in your People career and make a real difference? Join us as a People Specialist and help create a supportive, high-performing workplace—we’d love to hear from you.

About Our Role

We are seeking a motivated and proactive People Specialist to join our People Team. In this role, you will work closely with the People Business Partner to act as an operational advisor to managers, supporting the delivery of people and business goals. You’ll play a key role in enhancing manager capability, driving engagement, and fostering a positive and inclusive culture across the organisation.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting managers to confidently handle employee relations matters including disciplinaries, grievances, sickness absence, and informal disputes.
• Partnering with People Business Partners to develop managers' capability, offering coaching, feedback, and guidance.
• Coaching managers on engagement, culture change, and performance management.
• Building strong relationships with managers to understand business challenges and provide effective people solutions.
• Supporting more complex employee relations cases alongside the People Business Partners.
• Contributing to organisational change, talent and succession planning, and development initiatives.
• Championing company culture, values, and equality, diversity, and inclusion initiatives.
• Ensuring compliance with employment legislation and People policies.
• Using data and insights to support informed decision-making.
• Supporting the Head of People with ad hoc projects.
• Assisting People Admin where needed (including onboarding, benefits, payroll checks, offboarding)
• Collaborating with the wider People Team on projects and programmes of work.
• Acting as a role model by demonstrating company values with a positive, pragmatic, and solution-focused mindset.

What We Need From You

• Previous experience in a similar People/HR role, or strong administrative experience with readiness to step up.
• Confidence working with managers and stakeholders at all levels.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach with the ability to drive outcomes.
• Solid understanding of employment law.
• Strong stakeholder management and coaching skills.
• Ability to balance project work with day-to-day operational tasks.
• Curiosity and interest in emerging people trends and best practice.
• A positive, values-driven approach to work.
• CIPD qualification (desirable).

About Onebright

At Onebright we help individuals and organisations with mental health and wellbeing solutions, providing every person with the best mental healthcare, offering hope for a better future. We work across the mental health continuum from performance optimisation, early intervention, prevention, and treatment.

Onebright has been providing clinical excellence in mental health across the UK for 30 years. It is a pioneer in clinical assessments and treatment for children through to adults, delivering services through more than 3,000 clinicians in 49 languages to more than 55,000 people per year.

Our deep understanding of mental health and unrivalled clinical expertise enables us to support businesses from the first interaction with us through to recovery. We have a breadth of existing relationships with the UK’s leading service providers of EAP, PMI and OH which gives us a unique ability to deliver consistent care to employees from whichever channel they reach us.

At Onebright, we lead with integrity and compassion and are here to help our clients every step of the way.

How We Say Thank You

An exciting career is much more than just a salary. We also understand that everyone, regardless of culture, gender identity, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, or disability status, can contribute to our goal to make our work better for all. Our strength is in our people. At Onebright we have a range of benefits that include:

• 26 days holiday with an option to purchase more through our holiday purchase scheme. Plus bank holidays on top.
• When you need support, we rely on our excellent Employee assistance program to help you with your wellbeing.
• A private company pension with Royal London enabling you to keep one eye on the future.
• Your development is critical to our success so giving you access to Continuous Professional Development is always available to you.
• A very useful cash plan to help with those unexpected health issues such as dentist, eye wear or prescriptions and much more.
• Rewards gateway giving you access to an endless list of little perks and savings with retailers.
• Many of our teams are happy to work in a hybrid working pattern so we provide a technology package to keep you connected to your Onebright Team.
• Learning new skills is important so accessing our Onebright L&D platform will engage your enquiring mind.
• We encourage and reward our staff to “Refer Friends & Colleagues” with cash reward when they successfully join us.

Onebright we like to go further. So we want to ensure that once you get here, you’ll still be going places

Information to help you in your application.

• Onebright is committed to delivering in line with 'safer recruitment' principals and therefore the successful candidate will be required to undertake a credit check and a DBS check (Enhanced or Standard) with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), the cost of which will be met by Onebright.
• Onebright is committed to adhering to the Equality Act 2010 and provides equal opportunities to all applicants, staff and clients. Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you might need in the application or interview process, please contact our Recruitment Team and we will organise appropriate support.
• Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and we will seek to complete a Right To Work check for all candidates.
• For further information please email ***email_hidden*** or call the Onebright Recruitment Team on 01904 933519 for more information.