HR Intern Newark

This 12 month placement is a great opportunity to gain a strong start to your HR

career and build your understanding of HR in practice by supporting the day-to-day activities of our HR team. Reporting to the HR Business Partner, you will get broad HR generalist exposure across the employee lifecycle, including Recruitment, Onboarding, Employee Relations, and Learning & Development, while engaging with stakeholders across the business. This placement offers a dynamic experience and exposure to different areas of HR. Throughout the placement, you will be supported with regular coaching and mentoring to help you build practical HR skills and confidence.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and instil a customer service culture through proactive, compassionate and accurate guidance and support to the business.
• Support the recruitment process, including scheduling and administering interviews, and issuing offer letters and contracts to new starters, ensuring all relevant information is inputted and submitted on time.
• Onboard new starters on the talent management system and ensure that all relevant departments are informed about new starters.
• Process all necessary documentation with regards to new starters, including conducting right to work checks, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure the HR Information System is kept up to date and accurate, and maintain accurate electronic records and files.
• Provide general HR administrative support, including filing, scanning, and organising employee documentation, and responding to routine HR queries.
• Support with the administration and co-ordination of the probationary review process.
• Assist with preparing letters for contractual changes, internal promotions and role changes, for review and sign-off by the HR team.
• Support the leaver process, including administering exit surveys and interviews.
• Manage internal and external reference requests, e.g. mortgages, new employment, tenancy, and visas.
• Support with the co-ordination and administration of training and development activities.
• Support with note-taking in formal meetings, such as absence management reviews, under the guidance of the HR team.
• Produce accurate and useful ad hoc reports to support HR and management decisions.
• Ensure efficiencies and timeliness across HR processes to meet business needs.
• Own a small HR project during the placement, giving you the opportunity to lead a piece of work end-to-end and build a portfolio of work to support your placement year assessment requirements.
• Assist the HR team with ad hoc projects.