Head of People & Culture

Application Deadline: 15/06/2025
Hours: 37.5 per week (with some evenings and weekends as part of building cover)
Salary: OTR Band D | Starting salary £43,143 - £47,281 (depending on experience)
Contract Type: Permanent
Interview Date: 23/06/2025

OTR is recruiting a key senior role to provide strategic and operational leadership and oversight of people and culture issues to improve our work environment, develop a strong organisational culture, and align people practices with OTR’s objectives.

The Head of People & Culture will:

• Develop, implement, and monitor people & culture strategies, policies, and procedures to meet the organisation's needs
• Provide expert professional judgement, advice, and guidance to key stakeholders across OTR on people and culture issues
• Provide specialist and complex professional HR guidance and support to OTR managers.
• To work on, in collaboration with OTR's EDI consultants and SLT, delivering OTR's Equity, Diversity & inclusion strategy, promoting and developing best practices and contribute the development across the wider organisation.
• To ensure that HR policies and practices are implemented and comply with employment law, HR good practice, and support the employee experience.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced senior HR generalist with the ability to develop and execute long-term people plans, whilst leading the day-to-day operations of a small HR function within a charity.

You will have a strong background in HR management and be CIPD qualified, with proven experience in handling all aspects of employee relations, excellent knowledge and understanding of key issues affecting HR, and experience in developing and influencing organisational culture and strategy.

To find out more about the role please download the job pack below. If you would like an informal chat about the role, please email people@otrbristol.org.uk

To apply for this role click the 'Apply now' button below 

We welcome applications from all sections of the community and are committed to developing a team that reflects the diversity of the people we work with 

OTR & Benefits:

OTR is a mental health social movement by and for young people. The charity is at an exciting stage of its 59-year history and is proud to be reaching more young people than ever before (around 20,000) across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset with creative and diverse mental health and wellbeing info and support. 

Click here to find out more about what we do 

Our approach to mental health is grounded in a set of beliefs and values that underpin all of our work. We believe in celebrating diversity, empowering and mobilising young people to make change, and that catering to the unique strengths, interests and circumstances surrounding young people is key. Our approach centres on collaboration and partnership, building relationships between individuals, peers and communities. 

Each day is as engaging and fulfilling as the last, and with a network of supportive, community minded people, we hope you’ll feel welcome here. As a thank you, we like to compensate our employees for the important work they do with a range of benefits including a flexible leave policy, healthcare cost and wellbeing assistance with HealthShield, flexible and hybrid working arrangements, enhanced sick pay, parental leave, training and development, social and wellbeing events, and more (subject to contractual terms and conditions). 

A Willingness to Work with Difference 

At OTR, whatever your role or professional background, you will be expected to work in a way that is anti-oppressive and inclusive. A key focus for OTR is to develop an organisation that is inclusive for all but we do not claim to be experts in this. We are committed to continuous learning and improvement in these areas and invite you to join us on this journey. 

OTR recognises the benefits to individual practice and organisational credibility of having a diverse community of staff and volunteers and to this end is continually working towards building and maintaining an environment which values and pursues diversity accordingly. 

We recognise that tackling systemic inequality, prejudice, racism and oppressive practice requires each of us to actively engage, self-examine and make changes where necessary, in order to improve access and equitable experience for all in society and all of those who come through our doors at OTR. 

Job Description: Head_of_People_Culture_Job_Pack.pdf