HR Assistant
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £28,659 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 10 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Meadowbank Sports Centre, London Rd, Edinburgh, EH7 6AE |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 1 diwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Edinburgh Leisure |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | HR Assistant |
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HR Assistant
Full-time, permanent, 35.75 hours per week
Salary – £28,659 per annum
Location - Meadowbank Sports Centre
With a team of over 1000, we recognise our people as our biggest asset. Well-trained, motivated, confident, and capable staff are core to delivering our vision to inspire Edinburgh to be a more active and healthier city.
With that in mind, we are looking for a proactive and people-focused individual to join our team as an HR Assistant. If you are passionate about people, this is your opportunity to gain hands-on experience and start your career in HR.
Working as a part of the HR team, you will be responsible for:
- Maintaining the HR database, ensuring all employee information and documentation is up to date, including administration of new starters, leavers and contract amendments.
- Ensuring the appropriate pre-employment and reference checks are completed and recorded.
- Monitoring completion of probationary meetings and ensuring appropriate correspondence is completed.
- Providing HR and payroll advice and support via the HR helpdesk relating to absence, parental/adoption leave, grievance, or other employee-related queries.
- Working with Payroll Manager to check off payroll, monitor additional hours and exceptions and support running the monthly payroll.
- Updating and reviewing rostering workforce management data, verifying hours worked, and ensuring the accuracy of timesheet submissions.
- Delivering informative staff briefing sessions to enhance awareness of employee benefits.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- A degree or relevant experience in HR, covering areas such as attendance management, onboarding, resource management, and manager support.
- An empathetic, compassionate, and approachable personality with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, capable of conveying information effectively across all organisational levels.
- Strong listening skills, coupled with a kind and understanding approach to handling difficult situations and highly sensitive information and data.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to problem-solve and prioritise, coupled with high accuracy and attention to detail.
- Good working knowledge of MS Office, sound keyboard skills, and the ability to navigate various IT software/systems.
In return, we offer:
- Generous holiday allowance (32 days, rising with service up to 40 days)
- Paid sick leave
- Company pension
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunities for training, career growth and development
- Free membership across all our centres with access to fitness centres, gyms, and swimming pools
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Access to discounts with a huge number of retailers (saving money in cinemas, restaurants, clothing, and electronics shops, on insurance and healthcare and much more)
This is a hybrid role with time spent between our head office at Meadowbank, Edinburgh, Leisure venues across the city and home working.
Closing date – Wednesday, 10th of December 2025
Assessment date – Wednesday, 17th of December 2025
We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme. We encourage applications from people with disabilities and will offer support with reasonable adjustments where required. We are committed to offering an interview to applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Registered Scottish Charity No: SC027450
Full-time, permanent, 35.75 hours per week
Salary – £28,659 per annum
Location - Meadowbank Sports Centre
With a team of over 1000, we recognise our people as our biggest asset. Well-trained, motivated, confident, and capable staff are core to delivering our vision to inspire Edinburgh to be a more active and healthier city.
With that in mind, we are looking for a proactive and people-focused individual to join our team as an HR Assistant. If you are passionate about people, this is your opportunity to gain hands-on experience and start your career in HR.
Working as a part of the HR team, you will be responsible for:
- Maintaining the HR database, ensuring all employee information and documentation is up to date, including administration of new starters, leavers and contract amendments.
- Ensuring the appropriate pre-employment and reference checks are completed and recorded.
- Monitoring completion of probationary meetings and ensuring appropriate correspondence is completed.
- Providing HR and payroll advice and support via the HR helpdesk relating to absence, parental/adoption leave, grievance, or other employee-related queries.
- Working with Payroll Manager to check off payroll, monitor additional hours and exceptions and support running the monthly payroll.
- Updating and reviewing rostering workforce management data, verifying hours worked, and ensuring the accuracy of timesheet submissions.
- Delivering informative staff briefing sessions to enhance awareness of employee benefits.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- A degree or relevant experience in HR, covering areas such as attendance management, onboarding, resource management, and manager support.
- An empathetic, compassionate, and approachable personality with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, capable of conveying information effectively across all organisational levels.
- Strong listening skills, coupled with a kind and understanding approach to handling difficult situations and highly sensitive information and data.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to problem-solve and prioritise, coupled with high accuracy and attention to detail.
- Good working knowledge of MS Office, sound keyboard skills, and the ability to navigate various IT software/systems.
In return, we offer:
- Generous holiday allowance (32 days, rising with service up to 40 days)
- Paid sick leave
- Company pension
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunities for training, career growth and development
- Free membership across all our centres with access to fitness centres, gyms, and swimming pools
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Access to discounts with a huge number of retailers (saving money in cinemas, restaurants, clothing, and electronics shops, on insurance and healthcare and much more)
This is a hybrid role with time spent between our head office at Meadowbank, Edinburgh, Leisure venues across the city and home working.
Closing date – Wednesday, 10th of December 2025
Assessment date – Wednesday, 17th of December 2025
We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme. We encourage applications from people with disabilities and will offer support with reasonable adjustments where required. We are committed to offering an interview to applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Registered Scottish Charity No: SC027450
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