HR Officer

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	01 Medi 2025
Cyflog:	£16.6 yr awr
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£16.60 per hour
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	08 Medi 2025
Lleoliad:	Taunton, Somerset, TA1 2DN
Cwmni:	Hays Specialist Recruitment
Math o swydd:	Dros dro
Cyfeirnod swydd:	4719976_1756723003

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Your new company
Working for a government organisation based in Taunton.
This role is hybrid and you would be required on site for minimum 2 days per week in Taunton so you would need to live locally in Devon or Somerset.
The role is Monday - Friday 37 hours per week.
Paying £16.60 per hour.
This role is currently until the end of January 2026.

Your new role
The HR Officer role is an important part of the HR Delivery service in delivering an excellent enabling service, supporting the client to meet its strategic objectives and deliver its public task.
This post works as part of a flexible and multi skilled team of generalist HR Assistants, HR Officers and HR Advisors as well as with our Talent Acquisition Specialist to deliver recruitment and onboarding, employee lifecycle, wellbeing and employee relations services. They will offer advice, case management and administration services to a wide variety of managers and leaders across the business.
Processing queries coming into the HR shared service: 50%

• 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.

Supporting wider business or cross-functional initiatives: 25%

• 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.

Providing advice and support for employee lifecycle and employee relations cases: 10%

• 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.

Updating the HR system, running routine reports and completing data compliance checks: 10%

• 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.

Personal development: 5%This will include continuous professional development not limited to reading and attending employment law or HR related updates, understanding, and applying the impact of external and environmental factors on employee relations and wellbeing and taking accountability for their own professional development through a personal development plan.

What you'll need to succeed
QualificationsStudent or Foundation member of the CIPD or working towards.
Experience

• 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.

Skills

• 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
Hybrid working
Free parking on site when in
Weekly pay

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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