HR Assistant Brierley Hill, England
Job description
HR Assistant
HR and Recruitment Team
Waterfront office, Brierley Hill (ad hoc travel required to all Talbots offices)
Full Time, Permanent position.
We are looking for an experienced HR generalist to join Talbots as an HR Assistant. To be successful, you will have a minimum of 2 years’ relevant experience in HR, and a passion to support and develop colleagues across their whole career, by providing excellent internal client service.
As an HR Assistant, you will be expected to work alongside and support the wider HR and Recruitment team with the entire employee lifecycle from recruitment onwards. You will work as part of a team of 7, to assist the HR Director and HR Manager to ensure swift advice and guidance to over 400 employees on all HR related matters.
Who Are Talbots Law?
Talbots are proud to be an Employee-Owned Company and a member of the EOA. We were the first Employee-Owned Law Firm in the West Midlands.
Talbots is a Values led Company with a shared vision of “Working every day to be the best” for our people, our clients, and for our communities.
We are passionate about people being the best that they can be. We do this by providing a comprehensive package of high-quality Company benefits and rewards.
The Company is committed to the Real Living Wage Foundation, and we also hold the Disability Confident accreditation. In addition to this, our employee owners benefit from our comprehensive benefits package, including:
- Competitive salaries with annual review.
- Annual tax-free* profit-share.
- 25 days holiday + birthday + ex-gratia day + UK Bank Holidays + long service awards.
- Company salary-sacrifice pension scheme (4% from Talbots: 4% from employees).
- Group Life Insurance (3 x annual salary).
- Enhanced Company Sick Pay.
- Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programmes.
- Perkbox employee rewards & benefits platform.
- Medicash Health Cash Plan.
- Financial Health & Wellbeing Provision.
- Bank of Talbots (Annual employee credit for legal fees).
- Salary Sacrifice schemes.
- Established Company progression framework.
- Career progression plans (including financial / mentoring support towards professional qualifications where desired).
- Social events programme with larger event invitations extended to partners & families.
- Company gifts for celebrations and special life events.
- Commitment to charitable initiatives (currently main corporate sponsor of Acorns Children’s Hospice).
What the job involves:
- Responsible for first-line HR response, to both internal and external enquiries and requests.
- Assisting with Sickness & Absence processes such as responding, notifying managers and monitoring.
- Communicating all job change notifications; new starters, leavers, and promotions, plus processing and acknowledging resignations and retirements.
- Processing Flexible Working Requests.
- Obtaining references, DBS checks and Right to Live and Work documentation for new starters as well as providing references for previous employees.
- General administration and maintenance of all HR communications, documents and the HRIS, including recording all current and ex-employee data.
- Supporting the HR Manager and HR Director in collating MI and other reports.
- Drafting key documents including Contracts of Employment and Training Agreements,
- New Role Review process administration and co-ordination.
- Creating agendas for and minuting HR and Recruitment meetings & distributing action points thereafter.
- Minuting and taking notes for HR meetings including Disciplinary, Grievance, Performance Management and Departmental planning.
What you need:
- To hold, or be working towards the CIPD Level 3 qualification and at least 2 years’ experience within a generalist HR role, preferably in the legal sector.
- To be competent with HR software, such as Cascade and have a good working knowledge of GDPR and Employment regulations and legislation.
- To be passionate about supporting employees, senior management and colleagues across a variety of HR topics.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £22,000.00-£24,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Free flu jabs
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Profit sharing
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
