Human Resources Assistant

People Services Assistant, Arts and Education Institution, temporary role, c.3 months initially, £16.50-£17.90 per hour plus holiday accrual

Leading centre in the Arts and Education world, needs a proactive and approachable Human Resources temp with a great eye for detail to help them cover a busy period. This is a hybrid working role - 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home, to start asap.

Responsibilities will include:

• Act as first point of contact, helping with enquiries and offering customer service to your colleagues
• Support 3 People Partners in their delivery of the People Strategy
• Help to promote the organisation as an employer of choice - social media etc
• Help co-ordinate the hiring process, liaising with hiring managers to finalise and launch job adverts, job descriptions and person specifications
• Monitor progress of vacancies and track costs against budgets
• Conduct pre-employment checks - Right to Work in the UK, references and DBS checks
• Ensure accurate and timely issuing of offer letters, contracts, new starter information, and reference requests
• Support the administration for the UK Visa sponsorship system for new recruits and ensure expiry dates for all employees on time-limited visa are in the system
• Undertake monthly payroll check process in liaison with the external payroll provider
• Support the delivery of Staff Surveys
• Support the launch of performance review processes
• Support the co-ordination of learning and development activity across the organisation
• Assist with keeping employee data up to date on iTrent

Experience

• Experience of working in a busy People / HR Operations environment
• CIPD Level 3 or equivalent work experience
• Customer Service focused with first class Admin skills
• Knowledge of HR systems - iTrent preferred
• Experience of embedding principles of equality and diversity within working processes
• Processing visa and right to work procedures
• Education, Museums, Galleries or Charities experience preferred
• Sharepoint, Office365

This is a great opportunity to work for a high-profile organisation. Apply now!

Due to the large number of applications that we receive, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Val Wade Recruitment are actively looking for applicants from underrepresented communities and pride ourselves as an equal opportunities’ employer and agency.