Senior HR Officer – Maternity Cover

Role Overview

• Take ownership of the end-to-end employee lifecycle, ensuring a seamless and high-quality experience from recruitment through to offboarding
• Oversee onboarding processes to ensure effective integration and engagement of new hires
• Manage probation processes, providing guidance to managers and ensuring timely reviews
• Manage leavers and exit processes
• Own end-to-end recruitment activity, including ClearCompany workflow management, ensuring a consistent and high-quality hiring process
• Partner with hiring managers to define requirements and support effective selection decisions
• Ensure compliance with right to work requirements and onboarding processes
• Act as a first-line HR advisor, providing guidance on disciplinary, grievance, absence, performance and family leave matters
• Coach and support line managers to build confidence and capability in people management
• Develop knowledge and capability in Sage payroll processes, supporting with inputting changes including new starters, freelancers/temporary workers, and contractual updates
• Take ownership of monthly benefits administration processes, including pension contributions and benefit updates (e.g. PMI, dental, life assurance, income protection), ensuring accuracy and timely submission
• Support managers in identifying training opportunities for their teams.

Requirements

• Proven experience in an HR generalist or HR Advisor-level role, with increasing ownership of HR processes
• Good experience managing employee relations cases
• Experience supporting and advising line managers on people-related matters
• Exposure to HR systems (e.g. Employment Hero or similar HRIS) and payroll processes
• CIPD Level 5 (or working towards) preferred

Benefits

• Development & Training: Youll benefit from a blend of on-the-job learning and structured development, including hands-on experience managing employee relations cases and supporting managers.
• You'll have access to a multitude of learning opportunities via NEPs internal learning platforms.
• In addition, you'll receive ongoing coaching and mentoring from the HR Business Partner, with opportunities to support and deliver in-house training to further build your capability.