We are seeking an Assistant HR Advisor / experienced HR Administrator/ Aspiring HR Advisor to join a friendly and busy operational HR department for a not-for-profit organisation in central Southampton on a 6-month fixed-term contract basis to start asap. This is a part-time role between 18.5 -22.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday (hybrid).

Working with the Head of HR and HR Advisor, you will be providing a comprehensive HR service to managers and employees who are working in sensitive and complex areas. A key task for this role will be to act as a first point of contact for HR queries, first line ER case - absence/sickness and prepare HR data reporting via pivot tables and excel.

• Manage the HR Inbox and respond to complex queries.
• Provide advice and support to managers on HR policies and procedures.
• Work alongside the HR Administrator with the recruitment process, in particular editing and posting adverts.
• Post adverts via indeed and other advertising platforms.
• Set up users on the HRIS (iTrent and MLC).
• Making changes on iTrent, rectifying system errors.
• Produce HR trend report data as requested by the Head of HR - e.g. turnover, absence, sickness, recruitment, probation
• Manage the contract changes for staff and liaise with payroll to ensure they are kept up to date of all changes in time for payroll.
• Run fixed-term contract reports monthly and liaise with line managers about what action needs to be taken.
• Arranging and conducting exit interviews, reviewing the feedback to identify treads and areas for concern.
• Run work permit reports regularly and process the home office and online right to work checks as necessary to ensure compliance.
• Arrange and conduct 1st Stage Sickness Review Meetings, including the writing of the outcome letters. Advise managers accordingly.
• Create monthly Pivot tables to monitor sickness data and send these to the senior management team for review.
• Arrange and carry out Probation meetings, including dismissals and extension.
• Ensure maternity forms are received, and risk assessments are completed by line managers.
• Complete ad-hoc tasks as requested by the Head of HR.
• Cover HR Administrator duties, when necessary.

We are ideally seeking an HR professional at an HR Assistant / Assistant HR Advisor / Senior HR Administrator level with experience in an HR department of a busy organisation and knowledge of the HRIS iTrent.

• CIPD Level 3 or 5 / working towards / or relevant amount of experience in HR Team

• Excellent Communication Skills,
• Great attention to detail,
• Good level of IT literacy in MS Office suite - in particular, ability to use Excel - Pivot tables / prepare reports / HR data
• Willingness to work flexibly in order to meet the needs of the service,
• Good understanding of confidentiality and GDPR,
• Be able to organise, plan & prioritise workloads, ensuring tasks are completed in a timely manner with minimum supervision.

• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days rising to 30 days, plus public holidays
• Flexible working options - 37 hours but open to discussing flexible elements - 3 days per week on site / 2 home
• Buying additional annual leave
• Comprehensive induction and training
• Counselling, financial, personal support and health and wellbeing services via our Employee Assistance Programme
• Company cycle to work scheme

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