HR Officer (12 month FTC) (Ref: J11529) Contract

My client is looking for a HR Officer to join their friendly team to cover a period of maternity leave for 12 months. This is a generalist role for someone to come in and oversee recruitment for the trust along with numerous other responsibilities.

Key Duties:
-To manage all aspects of the Recruitment and Selection process ensuring effective, efficient and consistent processes across the Trust, to capture the individuality of each academy, including a bank of values based standard adverts, job descriptions and person specifications.
-Ensure that all recruitment and selection processes are carried out in line with safer recruitment, legislative, GDPR and best practice requirements.
-Develop an effective system for managing recruitment in the Trust, maintaining an ongoing and comprehensive record keeping system for the management of vacancies and appointments
-Liaise with the Head of People and the Chief Financial Officer in relation to advertising costs, using creativity and fresh ideas to increase the number of job applications received for vacancies.
–Responsible for updating the HR database and staff lists, and other relevant documents with all staff changes including internal moves, liaising with HR colleagues to ensure consistency and to avoid duplication for payroll
-Ensure electronic filing systems are updating accordingly
-Responding to and dealing with salary queries from staff and managers, providing sound and accurate advice.
-To be responsible for the administrative tasks associated with maternity and paternity leave answering queries from members of staff, and liaising with payroll regularly to process documentation. To ensure staff who are due to return from maternity leave are contacted to confirm dates, and discuss any potential changes to contracted hours/work patterns, ensuring line managers are fully up to date and involved in the process.
-Participate and provide information to auditors as and when required
-Ensuring action points are noted and all relevant pay forms and salary assessment forms are completed accurately, updating relevant electronic systems accordingly such as Cantium and the HR system.
-To assist with mid-year appraisal processes, liaising with staff and management and gathering data and documentation to support this.
-Issuing contracts of employment and variation letters for staff, ensuring the correct terms and conditions of employment are issued, using agreed templates.
-To ensure contract and variation templates are reviewed regularly, updated where required, and shared with external providers if applicable.
-Ensure all staff have a signed contract of employment on file, chasing these up if required.
–Managing the Induction process, liaising with Line Managers and Headteachers and Central Service Managers to regularly report issues, and regularly review the process in conjunction with the HR Manager.
-Assist with onboarding such as adding new starters to relevant systems to set up email accounts, sending welcome emails, liaise with all departments
-Support and participate in HR projects as and when required.
-Support change and change initiatives within HR.
-Respond to internal and external HR enquiries and requests.
-Ensure data is accurately input onto all Single Central Records efficiently, escalating problems where required without delay.

If you would like any further information on this role then please do not hesitate to get in touch or if this is the role you are looking for then please apply now!

Unfortunately, due to the high number of applications currently being received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.