Job Description

Role: HR Officer

Contract: Permanent

Contracted Hours: 40 per week, working Monday to Friday 08:30am - 4:30pm

Location: Full-time on-site role in Monkton Heathfield, Taunton

Annual leave entitlement: 28 days including bank holidays

Annual Salary:

26,500

per annum

Empower Family Group's office-based role!

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is enthusiastic and motivated, developing their career in HR within a growing and innovative company.





You will provide administrative support to the HR Manager and Empower Family Group based at our head office in Taunton and support a wide range of HR duties covering the full employee life cycle including but not limited to recruitment and onboarding, training and development, employee relations support and offboarding.





Key skills for this vacancy are professionalism, strong organisational skills, the ability to plan your own work, willing to use initiative and meet deadlines, reliability and honesty, good IT and communication skills.

Below is a list of some of the main duties and responsibilities of the post:

Assist Admin & HR Manager with taking minutes in ER case meetings





Issue contracts of employment to onboarding candidates in line with employment legislation





Assist the recruitment team with safer recruitment checks during the full recruitment lifecycle as and when required





Assist the Admin & HR Manager in the production of quantitative and qualitative data for the monthly HR Manager reports in a timely manner





Monitor the HR inbox and action incoming emails accordingly





Auditing of employee files and onboarding files





Update job descriptions with/without the Directors/Service Leads when required





Supporting advising managers on low level employee relation casework





Posting job adverts, reviewing applications, issuing conditional offers and unconditional offers

Please refer to the attached job description for a more detailed outline of the day-to-day tasks the successful candidate will be completing. This will also contain all essential and desirable criteria.

Empower Family Group are unable to provide sponsorship to any applicants.

Interviews for shortlisted candidates are scheduled to be held on 12th and 14th August 2025.

Requirements

Logical and methodical





Discretion and honesty when handling confidential information





Ability to work well under pressure and work to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment





Strong communication skills - verbally and written





Self-motivated and a team player





Basic understanding of employment law





Office 365 package and strong administration skills





Accurate attention to detail





Able to work independently.





Able to negotiate and collaborate with a wide range of professionals and functions as part of a team.





Flexible, professional, and co-operative personality.





Confident and enthusiastic.





Positive and approachable.

Benefits

An excellent starting salary and annual pay reviews





Learning and development, access to paid training and opportunities for career development





On-site parking





Free personable mortgage advice





Employee Assistance Programme





Pension - NEST





Be part of a fun, innovative and supportive team within a rapidly growing organisation providing meaningful work to support those delivering social care services




CIPD Level 3 or 5 (desirable)