HR Administrator - 6 month FTC

Avenues is a place where people smile, laugh and grow - and achieve extraordinary things.

Our charity runs specialist services for autistic people, people with learning disabilities, acquired brain injuries and complex needs. We work across Hampshire, South East England, London, Hertfordshire, East Anglia and Shropshire.

We are pleased to offer a new opportunity for a full time HR Administrator to join our HR department on a 6 month fixed term contract.

We are offering hybrid working and so the role will be based at our Sidcup office 2 days per week, as well as working from home. The role is Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week and will be joining a well-established HR team consisting of a HR manager, Senior HR Administrator and HR Administrators.

As a HR Administrator you will work as part of a team to provide a professional HR administrative service to the organisation ensuring compliance with current HR legislation.

You will also

• Provide a proactive HR administrative service to key client areas both internally and externally.
• Ensure that all relevant checks including those relating to legal and statutory compliance are undertaken in a timely manner.
• Ensure that changes that affect an employees pay, including changes to personal details are processed in a timely manner and in line with payroll cut off dates.
• Maintain and update the HR systems with all employee changes and ensure accuracy of all records.
• Provide advice and guidance to managers and staff on HR issues referring more complex issues to the Senior HR Administrator.
• Monitor the HR email inbox and respond to queries, monitoring issues and escalating patterns.
• Carry out surveys on new recruits and those that have left the organisation to assist with increased retention rates.

Our ideal candidate looks like this!

• Previous experience as a HR Administrator or similar role
• Understanding of the role of an HR department in a medium sized organisation
• Knowledge and understanding of UK & European employment legislation
• Knowledge of the Disclosure and Barring Service
• Experience of using databases to store, manipulate and retrieve data
• Experience of using Microsoft Office packages in an office environment
• Able to work under pressure and to prioritise workload to ensure deadlines are met
• High level of integrity, confidentiality and sensitivity
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy

Please refer to the role profile for full requirements of responsibilities, experience, skills and knowledge needed to be considered for this role.

Your values should match ours:

Respect: We treat people as we would wish to be treated ourselves.

Excellence: We don't settle for okay, we are determined to achieve more.

Integrity: We do the right thing, even if it takes more time and effort.

Pride: The work we do is something we want to tell others we are part of.

Benefits you can expect!

• Flexible Working including working from home.
• 31 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro-rata), increasing after to 2 years' service and after 5 years' service.
• Access to high quality training that supports your career development.
• Free and confidential 24/7 access to the health portal and employee assistance programme.
• Contributory pension scheme with life assurance.
• Recommend a friend scheme.
• And more.

Why join us?

We are committed to supporting our employees to achieve a good work-life balance and support flexible working including working from home.

We encourage our central services employees to really get to know the organisation and to spend time visiting services, meeting people we support, their families and our support staff.

You'll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its values at all levels, making sure the people we support are at the forefront of our decisions.

We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings and are committed to inclusivity and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce so we would love to hear from anyone who feels is able to take those opportunities to the next level.

As part of our commitment to the "Disability Confident Scheme", candidates who declare a disability, and meet the key criteria for this role, will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview stage.

Don't miss out on this great opportunity - we are looking forward to hearing from you today!

We reserve the right to close the advert earlier than stated.