Raven Housing Trust
HR Services Advisor
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£36,000 pro-rata
Part time – 32 hours per week
We offer hybrid working, with an expectation of around 2–3 days per week in the office. Flexibility is required to attend in-person meetings and deliver new starter inductions when needed.
If you’re ready to make a difference, then join us at Raven Housing Trust. We’re a leading social housing provider based in Redhill, Surrey with over 6,000 homes and are committed to investing in our homes and communities.
Our culture statements form the principles for how we work and what we expect of one another whilst working together as One Raven.
- We Put Customers First in everything we do.
- We will Always Be Curious about how we can do better.
- We work together to Make It Happen.
We’re currently recruiting for a HR Services Advisor to join our People Team.
What you’ll achieve in the role
The overall purpose of this role is to deliver an engaging employee experience by providing high-quality support to employees and managers whilst coordinating operational processes across our employee journey.
Key responsibilities include:
- To provide high-quality first-line support to employees and managers across the employee journey, ensuring timely resolution of policy, procedure, and system-related queries.
- To coordinate our employee lifecycle processes, including recruitment and onboarding, contractual changes, learning & development, and leavers, within required timelines.
- To manage payroll and benefits administration.
- To manage our HR systems and records, ensuring compliance with GDPR retention schedule, audit readiness, and data integrity.
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What you’ll bring to Raven
- CIPD Level 3 or equivalent experience.
- Experience of administering operational HR processes and procedures.
- Experience of HR analytics and reporting (e.g. sickness absence and voluntary turnover) including use of Excel and producing reports from an HR database.
- Sound knowledge of HRIS systems, payroll management, and benefits administration.
- Excellent interpersonal skills across different levels of the organisation, polite and assertive.
- Strong written, verbal, and numerical communication skills.
- An eye for detail and spotting where we can make improvements to our procedures.
Please review the job description and Ravens Strengths Matrix for full criteria details.
Job Description - HR Services Advisor
Raven Strengths Matrix
DBS clearance will be required for this role.
Vacancy Close Date: 4th October 2026
The interview process includes a competency-based interview and psychometric assessment.
What Raven will offer in return
To create a great experience for our customers, we need to create a great experience for one another. What Raven offers goes beyond the ordinary, giving you the opportunity to join a community of people who share the same values and are passionate about making a difference.
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Our reward package includes:
- Competitive salaries
- Fantastic work/life balance with flexible working and generous leave entitlement
- Strong focus on learning and development, with opportunities to grow your skills and career
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay
- Funded health cash plan
- Extensive wellbeing support
- Voucher-based recognition scheme
- Retail discounts
Raven is focused on creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from all candidates, including minority ethnics, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities and long-term health conditions, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
We will consider applications for part-time working and job sharing; please include this information in your application.
All data collected is anonymous and has zero bearing on your application. If there is anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we run a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants. If you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description for this position and would like to be considered under this scheme, please state this in your application.
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