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Your new company

Working for a government organisation based in Taunton.

Your new role

• Monitoring the HR Requests and other related inboxes and ensuring responses to a wide variety of queries in line with service level agreements. Types of requests include but are not limited to policy related questions, requests for support and guidance, electronic filing, reference requests, note taking, meeting requests, availability of wellbeing initiatives, providing job descriptions, new campaigns being launched, subject access requests and pension questions, raising purchase orders. Requests could be from potential job applicants, candidates, employees, managers, HR Business Partners, MOD data requests and occasionally others e.g. third-party suppliers.

• The post holder will contribute to the delivery of wider business initiatives, as set out by the People strategy or otherwise, for example will support business improvement initiatives through taking part in business process reviews, will support wellbeing through note taking and or attendance to affinity groups on behalf of the HR Advisor.
• Co-ordinating key processes such as workforce planning meetings, risk register, trade union meetings and the appointments panel, job evaluation process, regular HR meetings and purchases for the HR and People team.

• Signposting managers to the relevant policies and procedures and self-service documentation.
• Supporting managers to complete basic employee lifecycle template forms and letters and ensuring that these are put on file if necessary.
• Providing advice to managers in relation to the initial stages or lower risk employee relations cases (for example fact finding, absence management, occupational health referrals and flexible working requests).
• Supporting recruitment campaigns in times of surge demand including launching adverts, co-ordinating campaigns, onboarding and pre-employment screening.

• Supporting the HR Assistants with ensuring that the relevant HR systems and digital employee files are kept up to date and accurate.
• Liaising with payroll on any pay related issues or alerting to need to adjust salary payments.
• Managing employee lifecycle administration including job and contract changes, processing leavers, maternity and shared parental leave including basic employee relations admin.

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience of working in a HR Assistant or HR Officer role in a busy environment.
• Experience of providing advice and guidance to managers of varying levels of seniority.
• Experience of updating and using HR systems.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent team player.
• Good time management and prioritisation skills.

What you'll get in return

Excellent rate of pay

What you need to do now

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