📍 Base: Giffnock, East Renfrewshire
🕒 Hours: 35 hours per week
💷 Salary: £45,000 to £52,000 per annum
Be part of what comes next at Cosgrove
Cosgrove Care is a dynamic, ambitious and innovative Scottish charity supporting children, young people and adults with additional needs and their families.
People are at the centre of everything we do. That applies equally to the people we support and the people who choose to build their careers with us.
We work in partnership with the people we support, families, communities, commissioners, health and social care colleagues, voluntary-sector organisations and other service providers.
This is an exciting time to join Cosgrove Care. We have ambitious plans for 2027, 2028 and beyond, with developing services, new initiatives and partnerships, and exciting opportunities ahead.
To achieve those ambitions, we need an excellent People, Culture and HR function.
About the role
As Director of People, Culture and HR, you will report to the CEO & Managing Director and work as a member of Cosgrove’s Management Team.
This is a senior, hands-on leadership role combining strategic responsibility with practical delivery.
You will lead:
- People and workforce strategy
- Organisational culture and employee engagement
- Complex employee relations
- Workforce planning and recruitment
- Safer recruitment and workforce compliance
- Employment law and HR policy
- Learning and workforce development
- Performance, attendance, retention and succession
- Organisational change and role development
- SSSC, PVG and regulatory workforce assurance
- People data and leadership/Board reporting
- HR systems and continuous improvement
You will work in partnership with leaders and managers across Cosgrove, providing clear professional advice while also being willing to take ownership and help turn decisions into action.
Cosgrove Care provides services across the West of Scotland, and the role will involve travel between our services and partner locations as required.
Who we’re looking for
We want someone who is proactive, ambitious, credible, compassionate and professionally courageous.
We particularly value someone who:
- Has substantial senior generalist HR experience
- Has personally managed complex employee-relations matters
- Can operate confidently with senior leaders and trustees
- Combines strategic thinking with practical delivery
- Can constructively challenge and communicate difficult messages well
- Understands equality, inclusion and different workplace needs
- Can use workforce information to identify risks and drive improvement
- Understands the importance of robust, auditable and defensible HR practice
- Can lead organisational and cultural change
- Wants to develop people, not simply administer HR processes
- Can help create a workplace where good people want to stay and grow
CIPD Level 7, Chartered CIPD membership or equivalent senior-level professional knowledge and experience is required.
Experience within social care, the third sector or another regulated environment would be particularly valuable.
If you want the opportunity to shape culture, strengthen an organisation and build a People function fit for an ambitious future, we would love to hear from you.
What you can expect from us
We will expect high standards because the people Cosgrove supports and employs deserve them. In return, this is an opportunity to have a genuine and visible impact on the organisation.
You can expect:
- £45,000 to £52,000 per annum
- A senior role with direct access to organisational leadership
- The opportunity to shape Cosgrove’s People, Culture and HR function
- Scope to modernise systems, policy and ways of working
- The opportunity to influence organisational culture and workforce strategy
- Involvement in Cosgrove’s plans for 2027, 2028 and beyond
- Partnership working across services, communities and the wider sector
- An organisation that wants excellent people to feel valued, listened to, supported and able to grow
Ready to apply?
Please complete our online application form and upload your CV and covering letter.
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Cosgrove Care – Director of People Culture and HR – Nov 2026
Closing date: Sunday 13 December 2026
Applications will be reviewed as they are received and we may interview and appoint suitable candidates before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. Cosgrove Care is not currently able to provide sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route for this vacancy.
