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Cameron James Professional Recruitment are working with a leading Professional Services organisation who are looking to appoint a HR Officer to their existing HR team.

The successful candidate will be a self-motivated, hands-on, flexible and professional individual who will provide HR expertise.

You must ideally have some experience of working within a similar environment including handling a range of employee relations issues, recruitment, training and development and the ability to build strong working relationships and communicate across all levels.

The successful candidate must have a positive, can-do and people-centric approach. IT literacy is essential and ideally you will be adept in the use of an HRIS and psychometrics.

Responsibilities:

• Recruitment of staff (mainly admin/support level and lower level professional staff), including putting job specifications/adverts together and considering appropriate recruitment methods
• Relationship-building with key recruitment agencies, negotiating fees/terms etc.
• Overseeing absence management
• Reporting daily on all activity to the Head of HR, including updating the staff situation report on a regular basis
• Assisting with trainee recruitment
• Carrying out telephone interviews and being involved with the assessment days.
• Dealing sensitively with Employee Relations issues, including managing all requests for maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and flexible working.
• Carrying out staff inductions
• Carrying out a number of staff appraisals, including writing reports
• Research into appropriate training courses and producing training agreements for staff
• Sickness & holiday reconciliations
• Conducting exit Interviews and providing feedback to the Head of HR
• Liaising with inside careers, professional bodies & advertising contacts
• Updating various databases/spreadsheets on a regular basis
• Assisting with monthly payroll
• Loan agreements for season tickets
• Childcare vouchers scheme
• Ensuring the website, intranet & Facebook are kept up to date (e.g. policies, vacancies and announcements)
• Provide staff figures to various departments on request e.g. for annual returns and marketing
• Assisting with staff events


Person Specification:

• CIPD Qualified (Associate Level or equivalent)
• Some officer/advisor experience gained within a similar environment
• MS Office, Northgate Empower, VPM
• Must be keen to take on responsibility and ownership within the officer role
• Organised with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
• Hands on and self-motivating
• Approachable and able to operate with professional detachment
• Positive outlook
• People-centric whilst remaining commercially-focused
• Confident and assured in delivery
• Customer-service ethic
• Flexibility