HR Assistant (Scale 5)

London Borough of Lambeth; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Greater London seeks a strong administrator for their Learning and Development team within HR. This hybrid role requires at least Intermediate Excel skills and knowledge of HR Policy. Candidates should be prepared to manage a busy workload with minimal supervision. It's a chance to develop existing administration skills in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience working with an HR platform or database.
• Ability to manage a busy and varied workload with minimal supervision.
• Understand UK employment and discrimination law.

Responsibilities

• Recruit a strong administrator to the Learning and Development team.
• Provide accurate advice to line managers.
• Implement HR Policy & Procedure guidelines.

Skills

Intermediate Excel skill level

HR Policy & Procedure knowledge

Data analysis

Job description

Job Category : Human Resources

Location : Lambeth Civic Centre, London Borough of Lambeth

Hours Per Week : 35.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09 : 00

End Time : 17 : 00

Salary : £121.65

Please note this is a hybrid role. Any two days of the week on site

Important : At least Intermediate Excel skill level required

We are looking to recruit a strong administrator to our Learning and Development team, working within the HR function. We’d like someone with experience working with an HR platform (we use Oracle but it doesn’t need to be that) and who can manage a busy and varied workload with minimal supervision.

This role would be a great opportunity for someone looking to build on and develop their existing admin skills.

Core Skills

• Understands what databases are used at the Council and how data is gathered, organised and extracted
• Understands what a career pathway is and how they could be deployed across the Council
• Inform and advise managers and employees about HR Policy & Procedure and implement guidelines in relation to the Policy & Procedure
• Utilise the Contact Point system and the information it provides to understand the correct HR team to direct the work to
• Establish effective relationships with key stakeholders and colleagues in the Council
• Provide accurate and appropriate advice to line managers in order to train and support them to follow processes effectively and with minimal risk
• Implement guidelines on HR Policy & Procedure (as well as processes and principles), in order to keep employees and line managers aware of the latest practice and their responsibilities
• Ability to learn appropriate UK employment and discrimination law and apply this in their role in order to ensure employee’s rights are protected the Council is not subject to any legal challenge
• Ability to evaluate data and establish key insights, identify and highlight key trends / changes to trends in financial, people and / or performance indicators (when approaching HR casework)

Core Competencies

• Understand common issues based on existing knowledge, suggests improvements to current ways of working, completes tasks independently in a timely manner
• Ability to analyse and interpret data to identify and highlight key trends, as well as integrate external sources of data to ensure a broad level of analysis
• Ability to communicate appropriately using approved methods for the target audience. Inform others in a simple and easy way, and clarify to check understanding
• Ability to collect and synthesize relevant data to analyse complex problems and evaluate situations based on previous experience