Job Introduction
What you’ll do
As a Competence and Professional Standards Partner, you will be the organisational expert for workforce competence, behaviours and capability, aligned to our corporate strategies, values and current and emerging legislative, regulatory and professional requirements.
You will play a critical role in shaping how the organisation understands and applies competence requirements across roles and functions, providing clarity on accountability now and in the future. You will translate complex external standards into clear, practical guidance that supports organisational design, workforce planning, learning pathways and talent decisions.
Working collaboratively with HR Business Partners, People Development, Talent Acquisition and senior leaders, the Competence and Professional Standards Partner helps ensure statutory and regulatory competence requirements are consistently embedded, understood and sustained, supporting safe, effective and compliant service delivery.
How you’ll do it
- Act as the organisation’s trusted specialist on competence, conduct and behavioural expectations arising from regulation, legislation and professional standards
- Provide assurance and insight on current and future competence risks, identifying priority areas, critical roles and actions to reduce exposure
- Apply a competence perspective to workforce and succession planning to ensure future capability reflects emerging regulatory and legislative expectations
- Design, maintain and govern frameworks, guidance and tools that define and support consistent understanding of competence and accountability
- Use data, insight, research and external intelligence to identify trends, risks and opportunities, influencing evidence‑based decision making
- Work in partnership with HR Business Partners to embed competence and regulatory requirements into role design, organisational change and people practices
- Collaborate with People Development to inform learning strategies and development pathways linked to competence requirements
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to ensure attraction, assessment and selection approaches reflect regulatory expectations and role accountability
- Ensure that you follow and keep up to date with all relevant NHG and statutory policies and related procedures including health and safety and financial regulations
The ideal candidate
We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation. Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.
Essential:
- Significant experience working in a complex, regulated environment with responsibility for competence, conduct or professional standards
- Strong understanding of how legislation and regulation translate into workforce capability, behaviours and accountability
- Proven experience partnering with senior stakeholders and HR professionals to influence people strategies and workforce decisions
- Strong working knowledge of legislation and regulations impacting one or more regulated domains (eg. housing management, construction, building safety, finance), with the ability to apply learning across different regulatory contexts.
- Experience developing organisation‑wide frameworks related to competence, conduct and professional development
- CIPD Level 5, or equivalent demonstratable experience.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify competence risk and provide insight to inform decision making
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex regulatory and professional requirements into clear, practical guidance
- High level of IT competence, including experience using MS Office, HR systems, learning management systems and data or reporting tools such as Power BI
Desirable:
- Experience designing assessment, selection or assurance approaches related to competence
- Experience designing or commissioning learning and development initiatives related to competence
What’s in it for you?
Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more
- Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,800 employees.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.
To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 1 June
Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment
Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
