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HR Assistant
Location: Bedford
Salary: Up to £32,000 plus excellent benefits
Contract: 8 Month contract initially
Working Arrangement: Hybrid – 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home
As a key member of the HR Shared Services team, you’ll deliver a high-quality, customer-focused experience across the full employee lifecycle. Utilising People systems to provide fast, effective support and clear guidance to employees, leaders and candidates.
- Manage and prioritise HR requests, ensuring efficient delivery in line with KPIs, processes, and procedures.
- Provide high-quality, customer-focused support via a ticketing system, handling queries and offering guidance across a wide range of HR activities.
- Support onboarding processes, including issuing contracts and assisting the Talent team as required.
- Coordinate pre-employment screening.
- Administer leaver processes.
- Process employee lifecycle changes within the system.
- Act as the first point of contact for HR queries.
- Coach managers on employee relations documentation.
- Manage employment references.
- Produce and support HR reporting requests in line with GDPR requirements.
- Maintain accurate employee data.
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