People and Culture Manager

Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire, including the 2 nd most inclusive employer in the UK in the “Top 50 Most Inclusive Employers” list and achieved Investors in People – Platinum accreditation. Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.

This role is an exciting opportunity which involves working at a HR strategic and operational level to support Touchstone and its services to meet their objectives, and have a culture of high performance and inclusion where all colleagues thrive at work through the development and delivery of People and Culture plans. The postholder will be required to lead and manage on HR compliance, including dealing with complex cases and provide comprehensive and confidential support and advise to Managers and staff.

You will need to have significant experience in HR and employment law including dealing with complex cases, excellent verbal and written communication skills, be able to effectively engage staff at all levels. You will need to be committed to respecting diversity and anti‑discriminatory practices.

As an employee of Touchstone you will benefit from the following:

• Working for a diverse and inclusive organisation e.g. 36%
  * BME staff, 25%
  * LGBTQ+ staff, 16%
  * staff with a disability. Staff and peer support networks (
  * as above and many more)
• 28 days annual leave (rising to 31 after 2 years) + 8 bank holidays (pro‑rata)
• Flexible working opportunities
• Personal wellbeing budget. Access to counselling and 24/7 confidential staff helpline.
• Health and wellbeing activities and fun staff team away days
• Inclusive maternity and parental policies and pay
• Additional day of leave as a celebration day or health and wellbeing
• Learning and personal development opportunities

Information Sessions: 30 December 2025 and 5 January 2026, at 12:00pm via Microsoft Teams

CLOSING DATE:
Monday 12 January 2026 m

Interviews will be held on:
Thursday 29 January 2026

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, an equal rights employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly, BME and LGB and Trans communities and/or people with disabilities who are under‑represented within Touchstone. All applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria will be interviewed. Additional information can be obtained from our equal opportunities policy. Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role.

You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you. Applications can be obtained by visiting  or by e‑mailing recruitm . Please note that feedback is not provided to applicants who have not been shortlisted.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

• Added
  06/01/2026

• Closing
  12/01/2026

• Location Leeds

• Hours Full Time 37 Hours per week
• Salary Touchstone Pay Structure (2024) points 32-35, ranging from £41,926 - £45,158 pa