Location
3 days a week will be field based out in the clinics across London and the Southeast, covering Waltham Abbey, Harrow, Kensington, Morden, Reading, Colchester, Chelmsford, Southend, Faversham, Maidstone and Whitfield. 2 days based from home or Support Centre. This is a strategic, field-based role where you’ll partner with leaders across the business to influence every stage of the employee lifecycle – from recruitment and development to engagement and retention – ensuring our strategy is aligned, impactful, and consistent.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and support teams across clinics, laboratories, and referral centres, championing the colleague experience every day.
- Shape and enable retention strategies, proactively addressing risks and driving meaningful action through data and insight.
- Partner with managers and leaders to coach, guide, and strengthen engagement, recruitment, and retention activity.
- Embed Medivet’s annual people cycle (performance management, talent management, engagement) to ensure consistency and impact.
- Optimise workforce planning and support talent pipelines, including early careers and development programmes.
- Influence pay and reward decisions through market data and benchmarking, ensuring fairness and commercial alignment.
- Shape the Learning & Development agenda by identifying skill gaps and guiding targeted solutions.
- Provide guidance on employee relations, empowering managers with tools and confidence to resolve issues locally.
- Build trusted relationships with divisional leadership teams, preparing them to lead change and transformation effectively.
- Use people data and insights to inform strategy, drive improvement, and embed evidence-based decision making.
What We’re Looking For
- Proven multi-site, field-based HR/People experience in complex organisations.
- CIPD qualified (or equivalent professional experience).
- Strong operational and commercial acumen, with evidence-based decision-making skills.
- Experience in strategic workforce planning and capability development.
- Skilled in using people data to identify trends and guide organisational priorities.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Highly effective communicator, able to influence and collaborate at all levels.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to balance multiple priorities.
- Experience building compelling business cases for people initiatives.
Desirable
- Experience in evolving People functions and managing ambiguity.
- Proven ability to shape and deliver people strategies aligned to business objectives.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office for reporting and analysis.
- Experience influencing organisational culture across multiple sites.
Why Medivet
Joining Medivet means becoming part of a nationwide community that puts care at the heart of everything we do. You'll work with a collaborative, people-first team where your expertise will be valued and your work will make a genuine impact on the lives of our colleagues and the animals they care for.
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3 days a week will be field based out in the clinics across London and the Southeast, covering Waltham Abbey, Harrow, Kensington, Morden, Reading, Colchester, Chelmsford, Southend, Faversham, Maidstone and Whitfield. 2 days based from home or Support Centre. This is a strategic, field-based role where you’ll partner with leaders across the business to influence every stage of the employee lifecycle – from recruitment and development to engagement and retention – ensuring our strategy is aligned, impactful, and consistent.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and support teams across clinics, laboratories, and referral centres, championing the colleague experience every day.
- Shape and enable retention strategies, proactively addressing risks and driving meaningful action through data and insight.
- Partner with managers and leaders to coach, guide, and strengthen engagement, recruitment, and retention activity.
- Embed Medivet’s annual people cycle (performance management, talent management, engagement) to ensure consistency and impact.
- Optimise workforce planning and support talent pipelines, including early careers and development programmes.
- Influence pay and reward decisions through market data and benchmarking, ensuring fairness and commercial alignment.
- Shape the Learning & Development agenda by identifying skill gaps and guiding targeted solutions.
- Provide guidance on employee relations, empowering managers with tools and confidence to resolve issues locally.
- Build trusted relationships with divisional leadership teams, preparing them to lead change and transformation effectively.
- Use people data and insights to inform strategy, drive improvement, and embed evidence-based decision making.
What We’re Looking For
- Proven multi-site, field-based HR/People experience in complex organisations.
- CIPD qualified (or equivalent professional experience).
- Strong operational and commercial acumen, with evidence-based decision-making skills.
- Experience in strategic workforce planning and capability development.
- Skilled in using people data to identify trends and guide organisational priorities.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Highly effective communicator, able to influence and collaborate at all levels.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to balance multiple priorities.
- Experience building compelling business cases for people initiatives.
Desirable
- Experience in evolving People functions and managing ambiguity.
- Proven ability to shape and deliver people strategies aligned to business objectives.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office for reporting and analysis.
- Experience influencing organisational culture across multiple sites.
Why Medivet
Joining Medivet means becoming part of a nationwide community that puts care at the heart of everything we do. You’ll work with a collaborative, people-first team where your expertise will be valued and your work will make a genuine impact on the lives of our colleagues and the animals they care for.
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