Job description
- £22,369 - £26,845 per annum (Career Grade)
- Post 1: Based at Ufford Depot (with homeworking)
- Post 2: Based at Lowestoft Depot (with home working)
- Both posts 37 hours per week (part time applicants welcome)
- Permanent
- Working toward 1st May 2023 start date
East Suffolk Council is an exciting place to work and a great place to make a real difference to people’s lives, delivering vital services to a quarter of a million people across East Suffolk.
Your role
We have a fantastic opportunity for two HR Support Officer to join our friendly HR team. This is a really exciting time to join us as the team expands in preparation for the Council’s exciting new venture of launching East Suffolk Services Ltd in July 2023.
You will provide HR administrative support and be a first point of contact for internal and external HR enquiries relating to East Suffolk Services. Your role will be very varied, including providing comprehensive administrative support to the recruitment and selection process, managing the new starter and leaver processes, and making payroll changes. You will also be involved in administering the induction and probation processes, carrying out HR compliance activities and assisting in the administrative co-ordination and support of corporate initiatives as required.
The successful applicants will be required to be based in the office for at least 3 days per week. If you wish to discuss how that might impact your working arrangements if you were the successful candidate, please contact the recruiting manager.
What you will need
You must be a team player, have excellent organisational and customer service skills, and have an aptitude for IT and HR systems. You should also be able to work under pressure, managing changing and sometimes conflicting priorities, whilst maintaining a high level of attention to detail. It is essential that you have previous administrative experience in a busy office environment, ideally within the HR field.
Why work for us?
East Suffolk Council is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. To find out more about why we are so proud of East Suffolk Council, take a look at our video and hear why our employees think it is such a great place to work.
Here are some of the main benefits:
- Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 25 days a year, increasing to 31 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays)
- Local government pension scheme
- Flexible working arrangements
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- A wide variety of staff support networks including access to health and wellbeing initiatives and programmes.
- Discounts on mobile phones, computers, holiday and travel, fashion and clothing, health and beauty and many other products and services.
Please see our benefits brochure for further information.
If you have any questions or would like to arrange an informal discussion regarding this post, please email [email protected].
Closing date: 5 March 2023
Interview date: w/c 13 March 2023
How to apply
Step 1 - Read the advert and the Job Description and Person Specification.
Step 2 - Complete the Supporting Statement template. Your statement needs to indicate how you meet each of the criteria contained within the Person Specification. Please use the template provided (other formats will not be accepted).
Step 3 - Complete the online application and upload your statement. Please note, CV’s are not accepted.
For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site.