About the Role
Paloma is seeking People Partners to join their growing People Team and transition to a Partnering model. In this role, you will own key stakeholder relationships and specific topics across the employee lifecycle, including employee relations, people ops, engagement, wellbeing, and learning & development. The company is looking for T or M-shaped individuals with a broad range of skills to shape the team's remit around strengths. Strong performance can lead to progression to Lead People Partner.
Responsibilities
- Partner with your stakeholder group, understanding team dynamics and performance.
- Support managers through the full range of people moments, including performance concerns, restructures, and sensitive conversations.
- Build strong relationships to be the first point of contact for addressing issues proactively.
- Own onboarding/offboarding, compliance (right-to-work, DBS, HRIS data), and payroll review.
- Run the listening loop (surveys, eNPS, exit interviews) and translate insights into actions.
- Manage employee relations casework such as grievances, disciplinaries, PIPs, and absence.
- Own the wellbeing strategy and related benefits, identifying early signs of burnout.
- Build and run the L&D offering, from onboarding to manager training and development plans.
- Collaborate with the People & Talent Director to ensure consistency in policies, ways of working, and employee experience.
- Identify opportunities to use tools and automation, including AI, to enhance people processes.
- Contribute to other areas of the employee lifecycle as needed.
Requirements
- Ability to build and iterate on initiatives based on feedback.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with some unpredictability.
- Empathetic and commercial approach to decision-making.
- Desire to leverage automation and AI to improve processes.
- Knows when to handle issues independently and when to seek support from advisors or the People Director.
- Strong experience partnering with Tech and/or Delivery Teams, ideally during rapid growth.
- Experience in employee engagement, employee relations, people ops/compliance, or learning & development.
- Confident in advising managers on team health, performance, and people processes.
- Comfortable managing an HRIS and maintaining accurate employee data.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including policy documents and sensitive conversations.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives.
- Demonstrated empathy and interpersonal skills for handling ER issues.
- Experience within a regulated or healthcare setting is desirable.
- Coaching training or qualification is desirable.
Skills
- Employee Relations
- People Operations
- Compliance
- Learning & Development
- Employee Engagement
- HRIS Management
- Communication
- Organizational Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Automation
- AI
Location
- Hybrid working: three days in the London office (Mon/Wed/Thu) and two days remote.
- Office: 140 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1LB
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level (implied by progression to Lead People Partner and generalist requirements)
Salary/Compensations
- £65,000 per year (with flexibility based on experience)
Benefits
- Annual salary reviews
- 5% employer pension contribution
- Equity through Share Options (for employees working at least 0.8 FTE)
- Optional Private Medical Insurance (for employees working at least 0.8 FTE)
- Employee Assistance Programme (for employees working at least 0.8 FTE)
- Home Office Equipment Allowance
- 37 days of annual leave (28 standard days, plus eight bank holidays, plus birthday off)
- Option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave
- 2 days per year of special leave
- Premium performance company laptop
- NHS discounts, including the Blue Light Card
About the Company
- Paloma was founded to address the critical issue of long waiting times (4-10 years) for NHS autism and ADHD assessments for children.
- The company aims to make these assessments and care accessible within 4 weeks of a GP referral.
- Paloma utilizes a product-first approach, redesigning the care pathway with a consumer-like experience.
- An in-house product, engineering, and AI team builds specialized electronic patient records and AI documentation tools to reduce clinician burden.
- Paloma has successfully reduced wait times to 3 months as of May 2026.
- The company is CQC registered and quality-focused.
- Paloma has a clinically-led team of 130 people, including over 80 clinicians, and plans to hire over 100 more roles in the next 12 months.
- The company is community-driven, with passionate, mission-driven, and innovative team members.
- Paloma is backed by healthcare investors Triple Point and Heal Capital.
- The company is committed to further reducing the estimated 500,000 children still waiting for assessments and plans to build new services for post-assessment support.
Equal Opportunity
- Paloma Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and throughout the application process.
- We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic.
- Studies show women and people from ethnic minority groups may be less likely to apply unless they meet every qualification; Paloma encourages such candidates to apply.
- Paloma is dedicated to building a diverse and top-performing workplace.
