Trainee HR Officer

Trainee HR Officer West Midlands

Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
Full Time West Midlands 25812 - 27855 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Details

Reference number

302866

Salary

£25,812 - £27,855

Job grade

Other

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

Human Resources

Type of role

Human Resources

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

    Location

    About the job

    Benefits

    Things you need to know

    Apply and further information

Location

East Midlands (England), West Midlands (England)

About the job

Job summary

We are recruiting for the role of Trainee HR Officer in our Operational HR team.


There is likely to be some level of travel with this role and we’d be happy to discuss this with you to give you an idea of frequency and likely locations. You will ideally be based within the Midlands.


We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures. We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us.


We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience, which helps ensure we provide a service which promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families we work with.


Job description

As a Trainee HR Officer, you will contribute to a busy, inclusive HR Operations team. The team plays an important role in partnering with managers across the organisation to deliver outstanding frontline HR services, which in turn helps achieve the best possible outcomes for children.


In turn, you will gain invaluable practical insight and experience spanning the employee life cycle within a talented team that will give you a platform to develop professionally.


In terms of what you can expect to be doing in this role, this is likely to include:


  • Under the direction and supervision of a HR Manager and/or HR Business Partner / Officer, you will be responsible for supporting the provision of a high quality, proactive HR service to frontline management teams and corporate services, across a full range of activities.
  • To maintain the HR database and to analyse the data to produce reports as and when required.
  • To support the local HRBP / HRO with collation, analysis and presentation of HR Management Information, to assist with the strategic workforce planning activity.
  • Undertaking specific strands of project work as directed, including research activities, gathering, analysing and presenting information, liaison and negotiation with internal and external stakeholders and arranging meetings and briefings. Presenting findings in a confident and professional manner.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, through your initial application / CV and subsequent selection process, we will be looking for you to demonstrate:


  • You will have a degree level qualification (or equivalent) and/or CIPD professional qualification (or working towards one).
  • Practical experience of working in a HR environment undertaking across a broad range of HR activities, potentially as a HR Administrator or Assistant or similar.
  • Excellent communication skills (written and oral) that enable you to have effective working relationships with a broad range of internal stakeholders.
  • Demonstrate you are able to use HR data to identify trends to make recommendations
  • A clear commitment to developing your career within HR.
  • Experience of managing and prioritising your workload, working with minimal instruction and achieving targets within required timescales.
  • Demonstrate personal resilience and organisational skills to manage yourself and others


Benefits

  • Learning and development culture
  • An environment with flexible working as standard
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • Generous Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contribution of 19.4%
  • Generous holiday entitlement with option to bring continuous service from an approved employer for enhanced provision
  • Health Cash plan with basic membership fee paid by Cafcass, with option to add family members
  • Overall, a highly competitive total reward package with range of financial and non-financial benefits

Things you need to know

Selection process details

What we’ve shared with you here is just a fraction of what we think you may like to know and might help you decide to apply. We would also like you to be able to access the job description for this role and also find out about the timelines we are working towards, all of which you can find by clicking through to our vacancy page.


We look forward to hearing from you.


Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
  • certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Recruitment team

Further information

www.cafcass.gov.uk

Trainee HR Officer
Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service

www.cafcass.gov.uk
London, United Kingdom
Jacky Tiotto
Unknown / Non-Applicable
51 to 200 Employees
Government
National Services & Agencies
2001
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