Principal People and Change Partner

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 activity


• Manage complex employee relations matters and organisational risk


• Lead consultation processes and prepare key documentation


• Support redundancy, redeployment, and change implementation activity


• Partner with senior leaders to deliver effective and sustainable change


• Maintain governance and oversight, ensuring compliant and well-managed processes

About you

• Strong experience leading organisational change and restructures


• Proven experience managing complex, high-risk employee relations matters


• Excellent knowledge of UK employment law and consultation processes


• Experience advising senior leaders, ideally at Executive level


• Experience handling tribunal / ACAS matters or similar


• Strong 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 holidays


• health cash plan


• group personal pension plan with 7% employer contribution


• interest-free season ticket loan 


• life assurance


• annual pay award


• flexible working hours


• employee assistance programme – 24/7 advice and support for any work-related issues as well as any problems affecting your home life


• occupational health team – includes employment and work-related health assessments, health checks and work station assessments


• cycle to work scheme 


• professional training and development opportunities


• enhanced maternity and paternity pay


• staff 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.