The Opportunity
Salary: £24,294 to £24,702 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week
Location: Hybrid working - County Hall, Chichester and working from home
Interview date: w/c 28 October 2024
Are you ready to take the next step in your HR career? We're on the lookout for a dedicated Human Resources (HR) Support Officer to join our dynamic team within the Human Resources and Organisational Development Directorate! We play a vital role in providing critical support functions to our services, relentlessly focusing on delivering better and cost-effective outcomes. Our teams use their experience to enable and challenge the Council to deliver improved efficiency and effectiveness.
In this position, you'll collaborate closely with a fantastic team, including:
- A Senior HR Business Partner
- HR Business Partners
- HR Advisers
You will be instrumental in providing administrative support to our HR Business Partnering function, helping us tackle general HR enquiries and engage in various HR activities, from organisational change initiatives to employee relations cases. If you're passionate about making an impact and growing in your HR journey, we'd love to hear from you!
What are we looking for?
- We're looking for a pragmatic and organised individual who can effortlessly handle day-to-day HR support and administrative tasks.
- Your excellent listening skills and quick typing will shine through as you produce precise notes from meetings.
- With your outstanding customer service and communication abilities, you will foster great relationships with a range of external/internal stakeholders
- You will be comfortable working with spreadsheets, analysing data, and turning it into valuable insights.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work, ensuring you can fulfil your full potential and have access to a range of benefits including:
- an excellent local government pension scheme
- generous holiday entitlement of 25 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans
For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.
Further information
The reference number for this role is CRS00872.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Lorna Kennedy, Senior HR Business Partner at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .
To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.
Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.
We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.
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