People & Culture Business Partner

Contract

Permanent, full-time

Location:

London (hybrid-working)
Closing Date: 9 March 2026

An exciting opportunity as arisen to join the People & Culture team at Trinity College London. As People & Culture Business Partner you will play a key role in delivering people solutions in line with company objectives. You will work closely with leaders across the business providing expert advice across the people lifecycle, with an emphasis on managing people risk, improving performance, and driving engagement.

In this role you will also lead on employee relations cases and act as an escalation point for more complex situations such as grievance or disciplinary. There will also be opportunity to be involved in workforce and succession planning.

• Demonstrable experience in an HR or People Business Partner role
• Working knowledge of UK employment law
• Experience working with and coaching managers
• Proven track record of building strong and trusted stakeholder relationships
• Experience managing complex or sensitive employee related issues
• Comfortable taking accountability for delivering against objectives
• Excellent communicator, taking a professional but empathetic approach
• Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion

Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation. As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits here at Trinity.

Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

We actively encourage applications from candidates of all abilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is accessible, supportive, and welcoming for individuals with different abilities. We will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro‑diverse.

Trinity promotes and welcomes applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), we select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge.

To learn more about our DEI commitment as an equal opportunities employer, please visit our Equality, diversity and inclusion page.

To apply, please follow the Apply for This Job link on this page and you will be directed to the Trinity College London application page. We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of interest so please do not delay if interested.

Trinity College London does not hold a job visa sponsorship licence and so is not in a position to sponsor visas in the UK.

All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Upon successful appointment into the role, you will be required to complete our vetting procedures as with all Trinity College London employees. This is carried out by a 3rd party supplier and our standard background checks consist of Right to Work in the UK, Identity Check, Employment History check, Financial Probity Check, Highest Academic Qualifications Check and a basic DBS check.

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