People Assistant - Part-time Hours

Job overview

Join Our Team: People Assistant

Part-time, 15 hours per week

2 days varied within Monday-Friday

£26,433 per annum – rising to £26,639 after 6 months

Are you passionate about supporting others and creating a positive workplace? We are looking for a warm, approachable People Assistant to join us. As a friendly ambassador for our People team, you will build meaningful relationships across our business and support our amazing colleagues every single day.

How You Will Make a Difference:

• Supporting Our People: Offer kind, clear advice to colleagues and managers on general L&D queries.
• Guiding with Care: Help trainers, managers and employees navigate the training systems with thoughtful, person-centred guidance.
• Eye for Detail: Management of the mailbox to support co-ordination and scheduling of training and workshops . Updating and maintaining the LMS and Workforce Development Fund
• Creative Projects: Dive into exciting team activities and ad-hoc projects to improve our workplace.
• Full People Team Experience: Working closely with colleagues in HR and Recruitment, you will learn additional skills to understand the full People journey.

Who You Are: You genuinely care about people and love to help. You are an excellent listener, a supportive partner to our managers, and someone who thrives on teamwork.

Want to be part of a team that truly puts people first?

Main duties of the job

To work in partnership with colleagues, Managers and the wider People team to provide high quality comprehensive support across all aspects of the employee life cycle. To participate fully in the projects and activities of the People team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Stakeholder Engagement: As an ambassador for the people team, actively build positive and professional relationships across the business with all colleagues and managers.

Employee Relations: Assist with Employee Relations including resolving queries and addressing concerns including Terms and Conditions. Providing general HR advice and guidance to colleagues and managers. Escalating more complex queries as appropriate.

Challenging Moments: Work closely with the people team to pro-actively to deliver person centred guidance to managers in the full range of employee issues.

Life Events: Collating, drafting and maintaining appropriate documentation for employee processes and ensuring accurate maintained employee records.

Performance Management: Signposting managers and teams to the relevant support, maintaining and drafting appropriate documentation.

Data-Driven Insights: Maintain up to date data and conduct regular analysis to provide accurate MI data to the wider People team to support decision making.

Service Delivery: Deliver a consultancy style People service to business areas as required, ensuring service level agreements are met, systems are maintained and that the required standards of service and performance and continuous improvement are demonstrated at all times.

Recruitment: Provide administrative support for recruitment, onboarding and offboarding process. Analysing exit interviews and managing the provision of references.

L&D: Management of the mailbox to support co-ordination and scheduling of training sessions and workshops. Providing general L&D advice and guidance to colleagues and managers. Updating and Maintaining the LMS and Workforce Development Fund.

HR: To support the employee life cycle processes across HR such as: special leave, DBS, Nurse Pins, right to work, hours changes, increments, annual leave and probation.

Projects: To undertake ad-hoc project works across the People team and participate in working groups on specific topics as appropriate.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.