Human Resources Assistant

Cardiff Capital; Tonyrefail; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Cardiff Capital is seeking a Human Resources Assistant – Employee Relations to support the Education and Schools HR Team on a hybrid basis at Ty Elai, Williamstown. You will provide HR services to primary and secondary schools within Rhondda Cynon Taf and central educational services.

You will handle recruitment queries, sickness absence, discipline/grievance minute taking, and maternity/paternity leave processing, while using the iTrent system.

Qualifications

• First point of contact for HR queries and provide timely responses following HR policies.
• Experience with HR systems and payroll processing (iTrent) is desirable.
• Welsh language ability is desirable.
• Hybrid working arrangement in Ty Elai, Williamstown.

Responsibilities

• Provide HR services to primary and secondary schools within Rhondda Cynon Taf and central educational services.
• Handle recruitment and selection queries, conditions of service queries, and welfare/absence management.
• Take minutes for discipline/grievance meetings and process maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave.

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Essential qualifications, skills and experience are listed in the Job Descriptions/Person Specification which can be found under the attachments section below.

Mae’r ddogfen hon ar gael yn Gymraeg / This document is also available in Welsh.

Human Resources Assistant – Employee Relations

Ty Elai, Williamstown / Hybrid

A temporary opportunity has arisen working on the Education and Schools HR Team. You would be providing a HR service to some of the primary and secondary schools within Rhondda Cynon Taf and a number of central educational support services including Access and Inclusion, Catering Services, Central South Consortium, Attendance and Wellbeing Services and Transformation, Admissions and Governance.

You will support and provide advice and guidance to an allocation of Schools and Service Areas in matters including recruitment and selection, conditions of service queries, management of sickness absence cases including undertaking welfare visits, assisting with discipline / grievance minute taking and processing maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave.

Your role will be to be the first point of contact for these services, taking operational Human Resources queries and providing a timely appropriate response in line with HR policies and procedures, therefore being able to communicate clearly and concisely, being highly organised and working under pressure to deadlines is essential.

You will require strong IT and organisational skills as you will be responsible for processing human resource and payroll information via the iTrent system.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

For further information about the post please contact Kerry Kinsey on [phone].

Protecting children and vulnerable adults is a core responsibility of all staff appointed to the Council.

In addition to this safeguarding responsibility, the successful applicant for this role will also be subject to an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

The Council values diversity in its workforce. We are committed to ensuring that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, transgender, including those with non-binary identities, religion or belief or pregnancy and maternity. We offer a number of staff networks for employees including the Allies Network, a Disability and Carers Network and Perthyn our LGBTQ+ Network.

An application submitted for this post in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

As part of the Council’s longer term objectives in relation to the Welsh language and its Workforce Planning Strategy, it is committed to a guaranteed interview scheme for Welsh-speakers of Level 3 and above. If you meet the essential criteria as identified in the person specification for the job and are a Welsh-speaker of Level 3 and above, you will be invited to interview if you choose to participate in the scheme.

Care Experienced Leavers – Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of the Council’s corporate parenting role it is committed to supporting its care experienced leavers. This means anyone who has spent time within the care system at any point in their life. We encourage applications from individuals who are care experienced to enable them to access employment, education, experiences and volunteering opportunities.

The Council will guarantee an interview for any care experienced leavers who wish to take part in the scheme who meet the essential criteria for the role.