Colleague Experience & Engagement Partner
Possible
Sponsorship likelihood
This job is eligible only on a shortage list
Pro only
Salary
Pro sees the advertised pay
£41,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 3571 (97% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £41,700, and Practicus is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3571 Human resources and industrial relations officers Most likely code | £33,400 Clears | £41,700 Clears | £41,700 Clears | £41,700 Clears |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. A mark is for the top of the advertised pay. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
🌟 Colleague Experience & Engagement Partner 🌟
Location: Greater London & M25 | Hybrid
Working Pattern: 3 days across multi-site locations | 2 days working from home
Salary: £75,000 base + annual bonus & benefits
Additional Benefit: Octopus EV Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
Reporting to: Director of People & Service Excellence
Structure: Permanent | Standalone role | No direct reports
The Opportunity
This is a genuinely exciting blank-canvas opportunity for a people, culture and engagement specialist who wants to create something rather than inherit something.
A growing multi-site operational organisation is appointing a brand-new Colleague Experience & Engagement Partner to shape what it truly feels like to work there.
With regulatory, clinical and compliance training now sitting within a dedicated function, this role has a deliberately different mandate.
Your focus is the human experience.
Culture. Leadership. Engagement. Coaching. Listening. Development. And ultimately, creating an environment where colleagues feel connected, supported and able to thrive.
You’ll have direct exposure to senior leadership, significant autonomy and the freedom to build practical solutions that work for people on the ground.
The Role
You’ll become the organisation’s specialist for colleague experience, working closely with leaders and frontline teams across a multi-site estate.
You’ll be expected to get out into the business, listen to colleagues, understand what is really happening and turn those insights into practical action.
Key areas of ownership include:
🌟 Culture & Values
Translate organisational values into tangible behaviours that colleagues can see, understand and experience every day, from onboarding through to leadership and day-to-day management.
🌟 Leadership Development
Build and deliver practical, in-house leadership development programmes and toolkits for supervisors and managers. This is about creating something bespoke to the organisation, not purchasing generic off-the-shelf programmes.
🌟 Coaching & Active Listening
Become a trusted internal coach, providing 1-to-1 and group coaching to leaders while spending meaningful time with frontline teams. Create opportunities for colleagues to be heard and ensure their feedback leads to action.
🌟 Colleague Experience
Review the entire colleague journey, from attraction and onboarding through to development, progression and retention. Identify friction points and design practical improvements.
🌟 Engagement & Insight
Establish the organisation’s engagement baseline and introduce more regular, meaningful pulse feedback. Turn colleague data and feedback into clear insights and actionable priorities.
🌟 Talent & Retention
Develop meaningful career pathways and progression opportunities, particularly for hourly-paid colleagues, helping to improve internal mobility and address retention challenges.
The Profile
We’re looking for someone who is curious, energetic, commercially minded and genuinely passionate about people.
You may come from a traditional HR, Employee Experience, Engagement, Culture, OD or Leadership Development background.
Equally, you could have built your career in a customer or operational environment where culture, leadership and experience are at the heart of performance.
Experience across environments such as care, healthcare, hospitality, retail, leisure or education could be highly relevant.
You’ll bring:
• Proven experience across colleague experience, employee engagement, culture, OD or leadership development
• Strong 1-to-1 and group coaching capability
• Excellent workshop design and facilitation skills
• Experience creating bespoke leadership development programmes
• The ability to use engagement, retention and colleague feedback data to identify opportunities and measure impact
• A hands-on, practical approach. You enjoy being where the people are rather than sitting behind a desk
• The confidence to operate autonomously and take full ownership of your agenda
• Warmth, energy and emotional intelligence, with the ability to build credibility across both frontline and senior audiences.
Why This Role?
This isn't a role where you'll be handed a finished strategy and asked to implement it.
You'll help create the strategy.
You'll have the opportunity to establish the foundations of colleague experience, build leadership capability from the ground up and shape how culture is experienced across a complex, multi-site organisation.
For the right person, this is a chance to build something genuinely meaningful and leave a visible mark on the organisation.
If you're a hands-on culture, engagement or people experience specialist who loves turning ideas into practical change, we'd love to hear from you.
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with Practicus, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
Human resources and industrial relations officers (SOC 3571) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~137k in sample- Middle half £28,912–42,432
- Median £33,904
- Going rate £41,700
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £33,400–37,530
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. Practicus holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 3571 going rate of £41,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.