HR Workforce and Compliance Manager
Voyage Care
📍 Location: [Insert Location]
💷 Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 dependent upon experience
👥 Team Size: 12 (4 direct reports)
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced HR Workforce & Compliance Manager to lead our organisation’s compliance agenda and play a key role in supporting our continued growth.
This is a senior, high-impact position with responsibility for ensuring full compliance with UK employment legislation, overseeing immigration and workforce governance, and acting as the organisation’s Home Office Authorising Officer.
You’ll also play a pivotal role in post-M&A integration, ensuring newly acquired businesses align with our compliance frameworks and employment practices.
Key Responsibilities
Workforce Compliance & Governance
- Lead organisation-wide compliance across DBS, Right to Work, and employment legislation
- Develop and continuously improve compliance frameworks, policies, and controls
- Monitor compliance performance and manage risks
- Lead internal and external audits
- Act as Home Office Authorising Officer, ensuring full sponsorship and immigration compliance
- Provide expert advice on legal and regulatory requirements
- Stay ahead of legislative changes and ensure organisational readiness
- Lead HR activity across post-acquisition integration
- Align workforce compliance and employment practices across acquired businesses
- Identify and mitigate compliance risks during integration
- Lead and develop a team of 12 (including 4 direct reports)
- Set clear direction, objectives, and performance standards
- Build a high-performing, accountable team culture
- Identify and manage compliance risks
- Use data and insights to drive decision-making and improvements
- Implement robust controls and reporting processes
- Partner with senior leaders and operational teams
- Act as a subject matter expert in workforce compliance
- Build relationships with external regulatory bodies
About You
Experience
- Significant senior-level experience in HR, compliance, or employee relations
- Strong track record managing complex compliance areas (DBS, RTW, immigration)
- Experience in a regulated or legally accountable role (e.g. Authorising Officer)
- Proven leadership and team development experience
- Exposure to post-M&A integration activity
- In-depth understanding of UK employment law and Home Office requirements
- Strong risk management and governance expertise
- Ability to interpret complex legislation into practical solutions
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Analytical and solution-focused mindset
- High integrity and accountability
- Detail-oriented with a strong compliance focus
- Resilient and confident in managing risk and challenge
- Comfortable operating at both strategic and operational levels
Why Join Us?
- Take on a senior leadership role with real organisational impact
- Shape and drive compliance strategy across a growing business
- Play a key role in M&A growth and integration
- Lead a specialist, high-performing team
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