Recruitment & Onboarding

• Support recruitment processes, ensuring timely, professional, and courteous communication both internally and externally, to enhance employee retention and experience.
• Ensure adherence to Safer Recruitment Procedures, conducting pre-employment checks, onboarding, and induction processes.
• Maintain the Single Central Record for compliance.

Employee Relations & HR Support

• Provide first response support on day-to-day HR queries from employees and signpost staff to the relevant managers, escalating complex issues as needed.
• Assist in formal meetings as a note taker, including disciplinaries and grievances.
• Manage the HR mailbox, responding to queries promptly.

HR Administration & Compliance

• Work closely with the HR Administrator to support all aspects of HR administration.
• Prepare and update HR documents, including contracts, job descriptions, and policies.
• Maintain accurate employee and volunteer records, ensuring internal databases / MIS systems are up to date.

Performance Management & Employee Development

• Support the implementation of a robust annual appraisal cycle, ensuring consistency and timely completion.
• Maintain training and CPD compliance records for staff.
• Promote a culture of continuous professional development, seeking relevant opportunities for learning and development across the company.

Payroll & Benefits Administration

• Oversee the administration and implementation of staff benefits, rewards and recognitions and employee assistance programmes.
• Collate sickness and return-to-work documentation, supporting the HR Administrator to prepare monthly payroll data.

Employee Engagement & Wellbeing

• Support with the development and implementation of initiatives that enhance the employee experience and wellbeing.
• Contribute to projects that align with the ethos of Employability Solutions

General Duties:

• Support, uphold and contribute to the development of ES policies and procedures.
• Provide timely responses to emails or requests for information from the wider team and SLT.
• Manage your online calendar and ensure important deadlines are met, seeking support where required. 
• Commitment to your own continuous professional development (CPD).
• Take an active part in appraising own work as part of the annual appraisal process. 
• Attend company training days, team building, INSET Days and meetings as required.
• Be willing to travel sporadically between sites.
• Attend ES Team Awards ceremony held annually each December. 
• Access 1:1 coaching and support from your line manager.
• Live and breathe ES Company Values.
• Other reasonable duties may be allocated from time to time commensurate with the general character of the post and its grading.