HR Assistant

HR Assistant

Full Time (37 hours per week) – Fixed Term Contract until June 2026 (possibility to become permanent)

Salary between £29,000 - £31,000 plus competitive benefits package, including 38 days annual leave (inc. of statutory holidays)

South Liverpool

Hybrid working (3 days on site and 2 from home). Free on-site parking included

Great Public Transport links from Liverpool City Centre

I’ve exclusively partnered with a South Liverpool based not-for-profit and charitable organisation to help them appoint a HR Assistant on a fixed term contract.

This fantastic HR opportunity will allow you to provide HR administration as well as providing full employment support and first line HR advisory service to the organisation.

This is an exciting time to join my client as they’re currently implementing new HR and E-Learning systems and you will play a pivotal role within these key projects.

Reporting directly into the Head of HR & Organisational Design and working as part of a wider HR team, you will assist with a wide range of HR responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities for the HR Assistant:

• Full responsibility for the recruitment of staff, including providing advice and support to line managers, maintaining the vacancy and applicant register and streamlining the recruitment process for future migration to the new HR system.
• Assist with raising the profile of the organisation to attract talent and become an ‘Employer of Choice’.
• Review and reissue contracts of employment.
• Review and reissue all HR policies and employee handbook.
• Be first point of contact for all employee queries including annual leave calculations, staff benefits and advise and offer guidance to line managers upon notification of employee absence, in line with the sickness absence policy, referring complex or longer-term absence cases to the HR Advisor where necessary.
• Prepare and issue offer letters/contracts of employment for new starters and support the onboarding process.
• To support the induction process and probation/internal review processes for new employees.
• Undertake pre-employment checks including chasing references, RTW and medical questionnaires.
• Liaise with line managers to ensure Return to Work Forms and risk assessments are returned in a timely manner.
• Organise, resource and record training events across the organisation under the direction of Lead HR Advisor.
• Lead on the systems administration, communication to employees and reporting in relation to the e-learning system.
• Liaise with line managers and Payroll Team to ensure payroll information (new starters, leavers, sickness, maternity/paternity, other changes and expenses) are reported in a timely and accurate manner, in support of the monthly payroll timescales. 
• Proactively support and identify areas for improvement relating to HR systems and policy.  

Key Requirements for the HR Assistant:

• It is essential that you have a strong HR background working at a similar level.
• You will have a wide range of HR experience including recruitment, employee onboarding and offboarding and first line HR advise.
• Ideally you will have started your CIPD qualifications, however, this is not essential criteria.
• Excellent relationship building skills with the ability to work collaboratively at all levels and communicate with a wide and diverse range of stakeholders.
• Confident and curious individual with a proactive attitude to solving problems and looking for solutions.
• You will class yourself as tech savvy and have a good level of IT skills, including MS Office, Excel and ideally SharePoint.
• It would help if you were a car driver and owner. 

If you are interested in this HR Assistant position and feel your experience matches the criteria, then please apply now for immediate consideration or for more information please contact Mark Croston.

Medlock Partners are a professional services recruitment specialist. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances, including minorities and those with disabilities. Please note our advertisements use years' experience and salary levels purely as a guide. We are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role. If you do not hear from us within 48 hours please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.