HR Assistant
Description✓HR Assistant
✓£120 per day
✓Location: Lambeth
✓Akton Resourcing are currently working with a local authority to recruit a HR Assistant to join the Human Resources team on a 3-month contract
✓The role holder will be responsible for delivering operational excellence across a range of HR processes, including HR advisory, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Contracts and Systems and Learning and Development
✓Main Responsibilities:
✓* Makes judgements on prioritisation of work to manage workload and respond to urgent requests, supported and directed by the Team Leader and Contact Point manager where appropriate.
✓* Responds to customer demand on the HR function, supporting casework, recruitment, workforce reporting, systems support, learning and/or organisational development.
✓* Acts as a first point of contact for the HR function, resolving process or policy application based queries and basic data access request, and triaging other requests and connecting to the relevant individual within the HR function as required.
✓* To demonstrate flexibility whilst working across various HR teams to support workload peaks and troughs, developing knowledge and experience across all teams.
✓* Uses HR systems and databases appropriately to record all work actions, ensuring accurate information is stored in line with information and record management policies.
✓* Maintains compliance with the Date Protection Act, GDPR and confidentiality of employee information and the Council's data.
✓* Drives a culture of continuous improvement through the HR function by identifying opportunities to make changes to ways of working to reduce support requests through Contact Point, and to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of the HR functions operations.
✓* To develop working relationships with key stakeholders and colleagues and collaborate to help support with various ideas and solutions for the HR function.
✓Skills and Competencies:
✓* Understands what databases are used at the Council and how data is gathered, organised and extracted.
✓* Understands what a career pathway is and how they could be deployed across the Council.
✓* Inform and advertise managers and employees about HR Policy and Procedure and implement guidelines in relation to the Policy and Procedure.
✓* Utilise the Contact Point system and the information it provides to understand the correct HR team to direct the work to.
✓* Establish effective relationships with key stakeholders and colleagues in the Council.
✓* Provide accurate and appropriate advice to line managers in order to train and support them to follow processes effectively and with minimal risk.
✓* Implement guidelines on HR policy and Procedure in order to keep employees and line managers aware of the latest practice and their responsibilities.
✓* Ability to learn appropriate UK employment and discrimination law and apply this in their role in order to ensure employees rights are protected and the Council is not subject to any legal challenge.
✓* Ability to evaluate data and establish key insights, identify and highlight key trends/changes to trends in financial, people and/or performance indicators.
✓* Understand common issues based on existing knowledge, suggests improvements to current ways of working, completes tasks independently in a timely manner.
✓* Ability to analyse ad interpret data to identify and highlight key trends, as well as integrates external sources of data to ensure a broad level of analysis.
✓* Ability to communicate appropriately, using approved methods for the target audience.
✓* Ability to collect and synthesize relevant data to analyse complex problems and evaluate situations based on previous experience.
✓* Collaborate to team meetings and support group decisions.
✓* Advocate for diversity of perspective in the work they produce and is aware of the impact of their area and delivery of their role on the EDI agenda.
✓Experience:
✓* Experience of working in a HR department in a customer focused organisation, proactively facilitating and leading change.
✓* Experience of applying HR policies and processes in a shared service centre environment
✓Closing Date: 29/05/2023 Show more →
✓£120 per day
✓Location: Lambeth
✓Akton Resourcing are currently working with a local authority to recruit a HR Assistant to join the Human Resources team on a 3-month contract
✓The role holder will be responsible for delivering operational excellence across a range of HR processes, including HR advisory, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Contracts and Systems and Learning and Development
✓Main Responsibilities:
✓* Makes judgements on prioritisation of work to manage workload and respond to urgent requests, supported and directed by the Team Leader and Contact Point manager where appropriate.
✓* Responds to customer demand on the HR function, supporting casework, recruitment, workforce reporting, systems support, learning and/or organisational development.
✓* Acts as a first point of contact for the HR function, resolving process or policy application based queries and basic data access request, and triaging other requests and connecting to the relevant individual within the HR function as required.
✓* To demonstrate flexibility whilst working across various HR teams to support workload peaks and troughs, developing knowledge and experience across all teams.
✓* Uses HR systems and databases appropriately to record all work actions, ensuring accurate information is stored in line with information and record management policies.
✓* Maintains compliance with the Date Protection Act, GDPR and confidentiality of employee information and the Council's data.
✓* Drives a culture of continuous improvement through the HR function by identifying opportunities to make changes to ways of working to reduce support requests through Contact Point, and to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of the HR functions operations.
✓* To develop working relationships with key stakeholders and colleagues and collaborate to help support with various ideas and solutions for the HR function.
✓Skills and Competencies:
✓* Understands what databases are used at the Council and how data is gathered, organised and extracted.
✓* Understands what a career pathway is and how they could be deployed across the Council.
✓* Inform and advertise managers and employees about HR Policy and Procedure and implement guidelines in relation to the Policy and Procedure.
✓* Utilise the Contact Point system and the information it provides to understand the correct HR team to direct the work to.
✓* Establish effective relationships with key stakeholders and colleagues in the Council.
✓* Provide accurate and appropriate advice to line managers in order to train and support them to follow processes effectively and with minimal risk.
✓* Implement guidelines on HR policy and Procedure in order to keep employees and line managers aware of the latest practice and their responsibilities.
✓* Ability to learn appropriate UK employment and discrimination law and apply this in their role in order to ensure employees rights are protected and the Council is not subject to any legal challenge.
✓* Ability to evaluate data and establish key insights, identify and highlight key trends/changes to trends in financial, people and/or performance indicators.
✓* Understand common issues based on existing knowledge, suggests improvements to current ways of working, completes tasks independently in a timely manner.
✓* Ability to analyse ad interpret data to identify and highlight key trends, as well as integrates external sources of data to ensure a broad level of analysis.
✓* Ability to communicate appropriately, using approved methods for the target audience.
✓* Ability to collect and synthesize relevant data to analyse complex problems and evaluate situations based on previous experience.
✓* Collaborate to team meetings and support group decisions.
✓* Advocate for diversity of perspective in the work they produce and is aware of the impact of their area and delivery of their role on the EDI agenda.
✓Experience:
✓* Experience of working in a HR department in a customer focused organisation, proactively facilitating and leading change.
✓* Experience of applying HR policies and processes in a shared service centre environment
✓Closing Date: 29/05/2023 Show more →