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Senior People Officer

Level 2 plus excellent benefits

London Bridge, London
35 hours per week, full-time

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) is looking for an experienced, credible and proactive Senior People Officer to join our People and Culture Team. This is an exciting opportunity for a senior HR professional who enjoys operating as a trusted adviser, managing complex employee relations matters, and influencing people practices across an organisation. Working closely with managers and senior leaders, you will play a key role in creating a positive, inclusive and high-performing workplace culture.

Reporting to the People and Culture Manager, you will act as the College’s subject matter expert on employee relations, providing authoritative advice on employment law, HR policy and people management best practice. A significant part of the role will involve independently leading complex employee relations casework, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, sickness absence, organisational change and flexible working matters. You will conduct investigations, prepare detailed reports and recommendations, identify risk, and provide coaching and guidance to managers to build confidence and capability in managing people issues.

In this senior role, you will work closely with the Director of People and Culture, senior leaders and managers across the College, providing expert support on a broad range of people initiatives. You will lead end-to-end recruitment activity, oversee payroll and benefits administration, support workforce planning, and contribute to organisational development, change programmes and people projects. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will use your professional judgement to deliver practical solutions that support organisational objectives while ensuring compliance with employment legislation and best practice.

You will also play a key role in driving continuous improvement across the People function, contributing to the development of policies, systems and processes, analysing workforce data and providing meaningful insight to support decision-making. Alongside this, you will help lead employee engagement, wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives, ensuring the employee experience remains at the heart of everything we do.

This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled HR practitioner with substantial experience managing complex employee relations matters, advising senior stakeholders and leading people initiatives. If you are looking for a role where you can combine strategic influence with hands-on operational expertise, while making a meaningful contribution to the success of the College and its people, we would love to hear from you.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine was established to advance education and research in Emergency Medicine. The College is responsible for setting standards of training and administering examinations in Emergency Medicine for the award of Fellowship and Membership of the College as well as recommending trainees for CCT in Emergency Medicine. The College works to ensure high quality care by setting and monitoring standards of care and providing expert guidance and advice on policy to relevant bodies on matters relating to Emergency Medicine.

At The Royal College of Emergency Medicine, you’re part of an ecosystem of support dedicated to caring for people in crisis. You’ll join a diverse team of high-performing, passionate individuals dedicated to a mission that matters - each with the courage to try new things, take the initiative, and hold themselves accountable. You’ll craft a career with real purpose, supported either by one of our structured career paths or by bespoke training investment that reflects your unique passions and ambitions.

You’ll find an organisation centred on culture and driven by the ethos of respect, integrity, collaboration and innovation that sits at the heart of our college values. Here, we’re continually striving to do things better, together. And you’ll benefit from systems designed to support you to be at your best, with investment in cutting-edge technology, learning, and empowering working practices. Whether we’re engaging directly with our members or developing our crucial support functions, we’re each an equally vital part of RCEM’s success. It’s a breath of fresh air, in service to a socially-critical mission. RCEM. Where a meaningful career is a rewarding career.

At RCEM diversity, equality and inclusion is an integral part of our culture so it is important to us that this is reflected in everything that we do. We welcome applications from all individuals irrespective of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, marital status or parental responsibilities to ensure we actively embrace an inclusive and representative culture that encourages, supports and celebrates our differences.

For further information and to apply, please send your CV and covering letter to recruitment@rcem.ac.uk.

Please draw upon your experiences in your life, education, work, or voluntary roles to address to the points outlined in the Person Specification.

Closing date: 23 August 2026