Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Salary: £18.53 per hour
Temporary: ASAP start - 12 weeks
Job Code: MJ1805
HR Officer - 12 Week Temp - Hybrid
Are you an experienced HR professional ready to make a significant impact from day one?
Our client, a dynamic and forward-thinking company based in Stevenage, is seeking a skilled HR Officer to join their team on a temporary 12-week assignment.
This is a hybrid working role, 2/3 days in the office attending meetings in person and 2/3 days working remotely.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to gain valuable experience in a thriving organisation. If you're a highly motivated, flexible, and adaptable individual who is willing to take on new challenges, we encourage you to apply for this exciting role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing technical advice and guidance on a range of HR matters, in line with current HR best practice, ensuring policies and processes are adhered to, interpreted, and owned, providing challenge to where necessary.
- Proactive management of employee relations cases, providing appropriate professional advice and guidance based on legislation and in line with policies and procedures.
- Managing interventions to address key people issues and support the implementation of workforce plans.
- Developing and maintaining knowledge of the service area and using a range of HR data to identify patterns and trends to be able to understand and advise on workforce issues and interventions.
- Provide advice, updates, and direction (sometimes high level and complex) on a range of Employee Relations matters (including ill health; disciplinary; performance capability; grievance; probation)
- Assist with Organisational Change (Restructures & TUPE).
- Contribute to workforce strategies and planning, working with finance and data teams and managing projects to support implementation.
- Monthly review of sickness and unplanned absence management and working with the team to identify appropriate interventions.
- Support managers/ teams with performance management where appropriate to support early interventions and signpost to the HR Service Desk as required.
- Support the team and colleagues to identify and make improvements to the service provided to directorates.
The successful candidate will have:
- Strong knowledge of employee relations and employment law
- Strong minute taking skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Well organised, resilient, and able to prioritise your own workload
- Proven track record of delivering excellent customer service
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with confidence in advising managers on policy and best practice
Despite our best efforts it is not always possible to respond to every application individually due to the high volume of responses we receive on each vacancy. Only candidates who are short listed will be contacted for this particular role and if you have not heard from us within 7 days please assume that you have not been successful. However, we will keep your details on our database, and will contact you when other suitable positions become available.