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People Operations Officer

Sevenoaks
£27.2k/yr
Posted about 14 hours ago
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Company Description

At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals from cradle to career. Our work spans education, social justice and rehabilitation, children's social care, family support, social action and getting people into work.

The People Team plays a critical role in supporting our services to deliver our work. We're a team of nearly 20, and work from our offices in Brasted, Kent, Central London and remotely (with travel to our services).

Job Description

If you're looking for your first or second job in HR and already have impressive administrative and organisational skills, as well working towards your CIPD level 3 or equivalent then we have the ideal role for you.

As People Operations Officer you will be delivering a customer-focussed HR processing service for a number of areas of our organisation. You will be working with our Service Managers to ensure they work to our HR polices, processes and practices. This will include:

  • Using the ATS system to approve and publish roles
  • Carrying out background checks and onboarding new staff.
  • Issuing offer letters and contracts of employment.
  • Administering the leaver processes.
  • Processing variations to contracts and payroll changes and entering timesheets.
  • Monitoring key events and dates relevant to the employment relationship (e.g. DBS renewals) and taking appropriate action.
  • Collating inter-company transfer (TUPE) data as required and implementing the payroll and records aspects of TUPE transfers
  • Managing the employee absence processes, including annual leave, sickness, maternity and paternity.
  • Preparing redundancy calculations
  • Supporting with grievance and disciplinary investigations by making arrangements and taking notes.
  • Supporting Managers with informal and Stage 1 sickness absence cases.
  • Dealing in a sensitive and professional manner with enquiries from all sources and maintaining privacy and confidentiality at all times

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You will be managed by our People Operations Manager, and will be working with a wider People team who support other areas of the organisation, so there will be plenty of opportunities to learn from others, hear more about what we do and how you play a part in the bigger picture.

You'll also be working closely with the rest of the team in particularly the Strategic People Partners and ER & Wellbeing team. Your relationship with our Payroll team is also going to be key.

Qualifications

An understanding of, or keen interest in HR is essential, while some experience of the area would be desirable. We will also look to supporting you with further development and in gaining a recognised qualification in HR support.

To succeed in this role you must possess a good basic education and strong administrative skills - including a familiarity with Word and Excel, and experience of using mail merge and databases. You will be able to work on your own initiative and maintain confidentiality. In addition, you must be able to demonstrate:

  • The ability to build and develop strong working relationships
  • A strong customer service ethos and good communication skills
  • The ability to work effectively under pressure
  • Time management and prioritisation skills
  • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.

Desirable criteria:

  • Experience of working in a busy Human Resources or Finance Department.
  • Experience of using a HR database system.
  • Knowledge of the main areas of HR administration
  • Able to develop basic administration procedures.

Additional Information

  • Salary: £27,184 per annum.
  • Access to your own means of transportation would be beneficial, as the local bus service is unfortunately neither frequent or reliable. We recommend you research your potential commute ahead of applying.
  • Screening: Successful admission to post subject to an employer Right To Work in the UK check. The post-holder must have right to work in the UK. Catch22 does not currently provide a licence to sponsor visas but please see this register to see those that do.

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Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

No agencies please.

Please note, we will conduct an online search as part of our due diligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media.

Catch22’s Commitment to Ban the Box

Catch22 is proud to have “Banned the Box”. This means that we do not ask for candidates to disclose criminal convictions at the application stage. Instead, we invite disclosures at interview stage, and encourage them at the offer stage. Please see our statement of commitment on hiring people with convictions for more information.

Contract type: Full time - permanent

Department: Corporate

Service type: Corporate - People/HR

Compensation: up to GBP 27184 - yearly

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Skills

HR administration
Customer service
Communication skills
Time management
Attention to detail
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Mail merge
Database management
Onboarding
Payroll processing
Record keeping
Confidentiality
Problem solving

Location

Sevenoaks, England, United Kingdom

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