Job Description

Role:

Human Resources Officer

Hours:

Full Time - PermanentMonday-Friday 40 hours per week (core hours 9am-5pm in line with flexi - time policy)

Location:

Head Office, Pearce House, Eccles, M30

Salary:

28,089 - 30,845 per annum (dependant on experience and qualifications).

Would you like to be part of an employee-owned business where you can influence, shape and drive the company to excel in delivering Restorative

Parenting?

About Halliwell:

As a HR Officer you will be joining the company at an exciting and compelling time.

Halliwell has recently restructured as an Employee Ownership Trust meaning greater engagement opportunities for all colleagues in the improvement of the business as well as greater benefits and rewards when the business performs well and achieves great outcomes for the children in its care.

Halliwell Homes is clinically informed practice encompassing educational, clinical and residential care services. Our objective is to enhance the psychological wellbeing of children within the care system through our Restorative Parenting recovery programme.

About the role:

This role is part of the Human Resources team made up of two main teams: HR and Recruitment. This is a key role in supporting the HR Manager in managing every aspect of the 'employment life cycle' at Halliwell.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the HR Manager with various projects and provide high quality professional HR advice to managers and staff.

The post holder will also support the HR Manager in managing Halliwell's internal procedures such as disciplinary's, grievance, absence management, probations, flexible working requests and performance management in an effective and timely manner.

HR Officer Main Duties and Responsibilities:

To work alongside the HR Manager supporting with key HR projects leading to the successful delivery of the Human Resources strategy. To ensure an efficient, timely and innovative HR service offering is always delivered. Undertake general HR tasks and specialised tasks as required and appropriate to the role. To work collaboratively and gain expert credibility at all levels across Halliwell creating an environment thriving on innovation and change to maximise organisational performance. Create a suite of document templates e.g. employment contracts, variation to contract letters, invitation to meeting letters, resignation letters, etc. Ensure these are accessible to the team and ensure they are kept up to date and in line with contractual and statutory requirements. Produce employment contracts and variation to contracts in line with authorised management requests. Administer the payroll spreadsheet (processing, leavers, payment anomalies, promotions) each month in a timely manner and uploading to the HR system, ensuring that the workforce information is kept up to date, and any problems identified are addressed effectively. Provide low level guidance and advise to management and employees, through all aspects of the employee life cycle to include absence management, investigations, grievance, capability, probations in accordance with the consistent application of Halliwell's policies, procedures and adheres to employment law and best practice. Draft memos and distribute across the organisation. Liaise with the recruitment team with monitoring of HR processes with the department's recruitment team in relation to recruitment and selection, employment contracts and variations, starters and leavers. Support with the management of implementation and monitoring of training, probationary period review, performance, and development review, maternity/paternity/shared parental leave, flexible working requests. Attend meetings, produce meeting notes and distribute to employees and management. Provide guidance and support managers with capability procedures to ensure a productive and competence workforce across the organisation. Provide management information reports relating to HR for example absence data, staff lists, payroll costs, weekly staffing reports. Work closely with the Recruitment Coordinator to produce HR and ER casework Data for bi-weekly meetings with the Senior Leadership Team and Board of Directors. Maintain a filing system to ensure documents and information are retained and easy to locate and comply with confidentiality requirements. Provide guidance and support the leavers process by ensuring exit paperwork is completed such on exit interviews, resignation acceptance letters. Produce and distribute letters in accordance with salary, role changes. Support the HR Manager with reviewing current policies and procedures to ensure all policies are aligned to employment law legislations and changes. Manage and monitor the HR email inbox and respond to emails within a timely manner. Manage and monitor the archiving systems in line with confidentiality. Produce and Distribute employment references for former/current employees. Monitor the Halliwell benefits packages to ensure employees are registered/deregistered in a timely manner. To assist with any other ad hoc duties commensurate to the job role and pay scale, as directed by management

The successful candidate will have the following Qualifications:

Good standard of GCSE (Level 4-9 English and Maths) Ideally holds relevant qualification in Human Resources Ideally holds CIPD Level 3 qualification

The successful candidate will have the following Experience:

Experience of working in an HR commercial based environment Stakeholder management in relation to Human resource task and duties Understands issues, competitive markets and challenges in the wider business environment in the context. Ability to deliver results which add value to the department and to the company Extensive experience in note taking and producing letters.

The successful candidate will have the following skills:

Excellent communication skills (verbally and written) Excellent interpersonal skills Customer Centric approach to customers / stakeholders Effective decision-making skills Ability to use IT packages relevant to the role Excellent organisation and time management skills Ability to work in a team or individually.

What we can offer you:

Becoming part of the Employee Ownership Trust with Halliwell Homes Job Satisfaction Length of Service Bonus Scheme Birthday Bonus Scheme Free annual GymPass Membership. Free access to Perkbox Account. Refer a Friend Scheme up to 1400 Free access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Free access to your own personal Financial Awareness Planning Free access to a company laptop and Mobile phone (Role dependent). Free access to well-being initiatives Free on-site Parking Auto-Enrolment Pension Scheme We offer a highly competitive rate of pay and access to a career pathway including access to professional qualification studies funded up to Level 7 (Masters) Comprehensive training, professional development opportunities and the support of senior colleagues.
If you feel you have the skills and experience to join our team, please click 'Apply now'

We would encourage you to apply early on as we reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received without prior notice.

Halliwell is an equal opportunities employer and all applications received will be considered on the basis of their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having and securing satisfactory safer recruitment compliance checks.

Halliwell follows safer recruitment when recruiting employees for all roles within the organisation at it is paramount that all applications are aware of their responsibilities when working with vulnerable children. All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure Barring Services (DBS)

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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 28,089.00-30,845.00 per year

Benefits:

Company events Company pension Discounted or free food Employee discount Enhanced maternity leave Financial planning services Free fitness classes Free parking Gym membership Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Referral programme Store discount
Ability to commute/relocate:

Eccles M30 0QF: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:

Human resources: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:

Right To Work in the UK (required) Qualification in Human Resources (preferred)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person