We have a fantastic opportunity for two Part Time HR Assistants at Wigan Council. This is a Part-time Temporary role for the next 2 - 3 months, with the possibility of extension.
What is the role?
Wigan Council are looking for two HR Assistants to HR Employment Service Centre in HR & OD provides Payroll, Pension and HR transactional services to employees and managers in the council, schools, and academies and to the external organisations we work in partnership with, this includes a full recruit to pay service, a pension administration service and a payroll processing service including all technical aspects of producing a payroll. All processes are compliant with current employment and financial legislation.
What are your responsibilities?
- Display a proactive and positive attitude and take ownership of all HR/Payroll related matters, ensuring a full investigation of any issues before the need to forward/escalate to another member of the team.
- Be accountable for own workload and support across the wider team with the ability to recognise when other team members are under pressure.
- Competent in recognising problems and having the ability to find a possible solution.
- Assist in the development and delivery of services to the council, schools, academies, and partners in line with the latest service level agreements.
- Contribute to the development of efficient and effective working practices embracing new technology and new streamlined ways of working.
- Have an awareness and understanding of how the work that you do affects others and other processes within the HR & OD Team.
- Provide an accurate and timely recruit to pay process including processing contractual changes within an integrated HR and payroll system.
- Take ownership of managing a variety of different mailboxes ensuring mailboxes are cleared on a daily basis and ensuring good communication at all times with other work colleagues.
- Take responsibility for the preparation of documents for uploading to the electronic document filing system along with scanning and indexing in a timely manner as necessary.
- Produce accurate and timely employment contracts and documents that reflect current legislation.
- Administer the council's e-recruitment system in relation to gathering all pre-employment documentation and to support managers/headteachers/business managers to use the self-service system.
- Advise managers on safe recruitment practices and pre-employment checks, including appropriate use of DBS checks. Administer the online system and assist managers and applicants to use it;
What skills do you Need?
- Must have previous HR Assistant experience.
- Excellent people skills, as you will be speaking to the public, and other members of staff.
- Strong IT Skills, as you will be using Microsoft office, including internal council IT Systems as well.
- Full knowledge of HR Legislations
- Part Time 18 Hours a week
Next Steps:
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