HR Officer

Smile Education are-currently recruiting for-an experienced HR-Officer to start-immediately at a-welcoming further education-college in Solihull.

The successful applicant-will be responsible-for-providing comprehensive-HR support across-the college, ensuring-HR processes are-delivered efficiently and-in line-with employment legislation-and college policies. This will include-supporting recruitment-and onboarding, maintaining-employee records, advising-managers-on HR procedures, coordinating absence management-processes, and responding-to general HR-enquiries.

This is an-excellent opportunity to-join a supportive-and professional HR-team within-a well-established-further education college. The expected salary-range for the-role is between16.00 - -18.00 per-hour, depending on experience.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Providing day-to-day HR administrative-and advisory support.
• Coordinating recruitment, selection, and onboarding-activities.
• Preparing-contracts, offer letters, and employment documentation.
• Maintaining accurate employee-records and HR-databases.
• Supporting managers with-absence, disciplinary, grievance, and capability procedures.
• Assisting with payroll-administration and contractual-changes.
• Ensuring compliance-with employment legislation, safeguarding, and safer-recruitment practices.
• Responding to HR-queries from staff-and-managers in a-timely and professional-manner.
• Producing HR reports-and workforce data-for senior management.
• Supporting employee wellbeing, training, and development-initiatives.
• Working collaboratively-with managers and-external agencies where-required.

The Ideal Candidate-Will:

• Have previous experience-working within an-HR Officer-or HR Advisor-role.
• Hold or be-working towards a-CIPD qualification (Level-3 or-Level 5 desirable).
• Have a sound-understanding of UK-employment law and-HR best practice.
• Be highly-organised with excellent-attention to detail.
• Demonstrate excellent communication-and interpersonal skills.
• Be able to-manage confidential information-with discretion and-professionalism.
• Have strong IT-skills, including Microsoft-Office and HR-information-systems.
• Be proactive, adaptable, and able to-prioritise a varied-workload.

What-to Expect from-Applicants:
We are looking-for applicants with-previous experience within-a Human Resources-environment, ideally gained-within education, the-public sector, or-a similarly regulated-organisation. Experience-supporting recruitment,-employee-relations, HR administration, and maintaining HR-systems is highly-desirable.
Why work with-Smile Education?Smile Education are-an agency with-a difference. We-are education specialists-with a proven-track record-of supporting professionals-across schools, colleges, and academy trusts. We provide access-to training and-CPD opportunities and-work alongside a-number of respected-education providers across-the Midlands. We-are passionate about-finding-the right opportunity-for every candidate.
To be successful in your application, you should have experience in one or more of the following:

• Human Resources administration-or advisory-work.
• Recruitment and onboarding.
• Employee relations and-HR casework.
• HR systems and-record management.
• Working within an-education or public-sector environment.
• Availability to start-immediately.

We are committed-to safeguarding children-and vulnerable adults. Each applicant will-be expected to-undertake compliance-checks including an-Enhanced DBS check, Right to Work-checks, qualification verification, and employment references.
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We are committed to safeguarding children. Each applicant will be expected to undertake compliance checks including Prohibited list, Barred list, DBS and Qualifications.

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