About this role
Principal People and Change Partner
Liverpool or London
£58,000 - £65,000
FTC - 12 months
Working hours – full time (35 hours a week, Monday - Friday)
Location – Liverpool or London, hybrid homeworking (minimum 6 days a month in office)
The Royal College of Physicians is recruiting a Principal People & Change Partner to join our People & Culture team on a fixed-term basis, supporting a significant period of organisational change.
You’ll lead complex change activity including restructures, consultation processes, and high-risk employee relations matters. Working with senior leaders, you’ll ensure change is delivered in a legally compliant, pragmatic, and people-centred way.
Operating at a senior level, you’ll bring expertise in organisational design and change, while also delivering hands-on activity across the full change lifecycle.
The successful candidate will be required to commence in July 2026.
Key responsibilities
Lead organisational restructures and transformation activityManage complex employee relations matters and organisational riskLead consultation processes and prepare key documentationSupport redundancy, redeployment, and change implementation activityPartner with senior leaders to deliver effective and sustainable changeMaintain governance and oversight, ensuring compliant and well-managed processes
About you
Strong experience leading organisational change and restructuresProven experience managing complex, high-risk employee relations mattersExcellent knowledge of UK employment law and consultation processesExperience advising senior leaders, ideally at Executive levelExperience handling tribunal / ACAS matters or similarStrong judgement, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Our benefits
Working at the RCP comes with lots of benefits designed to ensure that you feel valued and supported in your role. The benefits we offer include:
29 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidayshealth cash plangroup personal pension plan with 7% employer contributioninterest-free season ticket loan life assuranceannual pay awardflexible working hoursemployee assistance programme – 24/7 advice and support for any work-related issues as well as any problems affecting your home lifeoccupational health team – includes employment and work-related health assessments, health checks and work station assessmentscycle to work scheme professional training and development opportunitiesenhanced maternity and paternity paystaff discounts platform – including discounts on cinema tickets and a range of high street brands
Closing date: 03 June 2026
Interviewing date: TBC - mid June 2026
The RCP positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.
The RCP is all about our people – our members, staff, volunteers and leaders. We educate, influence and collaborate to improve health and healthcare for everyone and know we can only do this by being inclusive, encouraging and celebrating diverse perspectives. Welcoming into our community people who represent the 21st-century medical workforce and the diverse population of patients we serve is a priority for us.