HR Assistant

Cornerstone; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charitable organization in Scotland is seeking a proactive HR Assistant to join their team. In this full-time role, you will provide essential HR administrative support, assist with various HR tasks, and have opportunities for professional development. Applicants should ideally have administrative experience and strong communication skills. Join a supportive team making a positive impact in the community.

Benefits

Flexi-time model

Funding for driving lessons up to £500

26 days annual leave plus 4 bank holidays

Family-friendly leave options

Access to discounts for cinema, gym memberships, and more

Training opportunities through an award-winning Academy

Qualifications

• Minimum of one year experience in an administration role.
• Strong attention to detail and communication skills.
• Experience in an HR setting preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide general HR administrative support.
• Manage enquiries, prepare agendas, and take minutes.
• Update records and process HR invoices.

Skills

Organisational skills

Time management skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work in a team

Attention to detail

Job description

Are you an organised, proactive and people-focused individual who’s looking to build a career in Human Resources? We’re now on the look out for an HR Assistant to join us on a full-time, permanent basis covering the North East of Scotland. This is a great opportunity to join a welcoming, professional and truly people focused HR team.

The Role

Working within a fast-paced environment, you’ll get to develop and learn new skills within various aspects of HR. This is an exciting and varied role where no two days are the same.

As one of our HR Assistants you’ll work alongside our HR Advisor and wider stakeholders across the organisation, providing general HR administrative support. You’ll assist with day-to-day HR tasks including managing enquiries, preparing agendas, minute taking, updating records, processing occupational health referrals and HR invoices.

Please see our attached role profile for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

About You

It would be great if you have previous experience within an HR setting, but this isn’t essential if you’re bringing a strong administrative background, sound attention to detail and excellent communication skills.

What we’ll need you to bring:

• A minimum of a years' experience of working in an administration/secretarial role
• Organisational and time management skills
• A polite, approachable and friendly manner with a passion for helping others
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• The ability to produce high quality, accurate work
• Confidence working with office-related computer packages
• The ability to work well in a team and on your own initiative
• A positive approach with a eagerness to learn

There will be occasions that we’ll need you to travel to other Cornerstone branch locations for meetings and training (travel expenses would be reimbursed as set out in our expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation.

About us

Cornerstone is one of Scotland’s largest charities with 45 years' experience providing great care and support for adults with various support needs across Scotland.

We operate over 18 local authorities in Scotland and provide a wide range of services to over 2,000 individuals each year. Our focus is to encourage social inclusion, reduce loneliness, and improve health, independence and wellbeing by working closely with the people we support and their families, setting personal goals with them, and ensuring they receive the care and support they need to live the best life possible.

We want our colleagues to feel and be truly valued and recognised for the highly skilled, life-changing work that they do every day. By joining our team, you’ll not only help us achieve our purpose of delivering high quality care and support, you’ll also help us with our commitment to develop and maintain an empowered, high performing workforce.

What makes Cornerstone a great place to work

• Your job actually changes and improves lives - you’ll make a difference in your local communities
• We have a culture of empowering our colleagues and teamwork
• No uniform - we wear our own clothes
• We fund up to £500 towards driving lessons
• Free parking on-site at our Dundee office
• We operate a flexi-time model for business support colleagues
• Access to funded qualifications through our SQA approved, award winning Training Academy
• Ongoing continued professional development and career progression opportunities
• Recommend a colleague bonus scheme
• Long service awards
• Access to a 24/7 independent employee assistance helpline
• 26 days annual leave (rising by 5 days after 5 years) plus 4 paid bank holidays
• Family friendly leave options, including family, parental, bereavement and special leave
• Access to lots of discounts, including the cinema, gym memberships, holidays and shopping to name a few

Do you have any questions? To find out more, please contact Heather McAteer, our HR Advisor at [e-mail]

Do you have what it takes? What are you waiting for? Apply today! We’d love to hear from you.

We will be interviewing shortlisted candidates as applications come through on a rolling basis, therefore we strongly encourage you apply early to avoid disappointment.

The successful candidate will need to undergo a level 2 disclosure check through Disclosure Scotland.

Please note - If you have spent more than 12 months out with the UK (excluding France, Germany. Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania or Spain) within the last 10 years while over the age of 18, you will be asked to provide a criminal record certificate from the relevant government/police authority as part of our pre-employment checks.