Trainee HR Officer

Cafcass; Alcester; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A national children’s advocacy service is looking for a Trainee HR Officer to join their HR Business Partnering Team. The role involves supporting HR activities, maintaining databases, and contributing to strategic workforce planning. Ideal candidates should have a degree-level qualification and excellent communication skills. This position supports a hybrid work model with a focus on inclusivity and diversity.

Benefits

Extensive wellbeing support

Hybrid working

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification (or equivalent) and/or CIPD professional qualification (or working towards one).
• Practical experience of working in a HR environment, potentially as an HR Administrator or Assistant.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills for effective relationships.

Responsibilities

• Support the provision of a high-quality HR service.
• Maintain the HR database and analyze data for reporting.
• Assist with strategic workforce planning.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Resilience

Education

Degree level qualification or CIPD

Job description

Job Overview

We are currently recruiting for a Trainee HR Officer to join our HR Business Partnering Team. This role may involve nationwide travel and we will only progress applications for those located in the West and East Midlands areas. We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures. We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us. We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience, which helps ensure we provide a service which promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families we work with.

Let us tell you a bit more about the role… As a Trainee HR Officer, you will contribute to a busy, inclusive HR Operations team. The team partners with managers across the organisation to deliver outstanding frontline HR services, which in turn helps achieve the best possible outcomes for children. In turn, you will gain invaluable practical insight and experience spanning the employee life cycle within a talented team that will give you a platform to develop professionally.

Responsibilities

• Under the direction and supervision of a HR Manager and/or HR Business Partner / Officer, support the provision of a high quality, proactive HR service to frontline management teams and corporate services, across a full range of activities.
• Maintain the HR database and analyse the data to produce reports as and when required.
• Support the local HRBP / HRO with collation, analysis and presentation of HR Management Information, to assist with strategic workforce planning.
• Undertake specific strands of project work as directed, including research activities, gathering, analysing and presenting information, liaising and negotiating with internal and external stakeholders and arranging meetings and briefings; present findings in a confident and professional manner.
• Final Interview and work‑based assessment: W/C 15th December (in person, location to be confirmed).

Additional Information

We understand you may benefit from finding out more to help you decide to apply. There is a lot of information available at our website but if there is something else you need to find out more about, you can contact our HR Resourcing team if your query is to do with the recruitment process or is HR-related, or HR Manager if your questions relate more to the role, providing your contact information and best times / methods to get hold of you. Whilst we will always try and respond as soon as possible we wouldn't want you to miss the closing date before we are able to. If this is the case, we recommend you apply and as part of your application you can ask questions and this may allow us to contact you and provide you with the required information that will help you decide if you still wish to be considered. Finally, in anticipation of your application being successful, you might want to read about the process. As part of your application you can highlight any concerns or questions about the pre‑employment checks and we encourage all applicants to do so, safe in the knowledge such information will not be shared with individuals involved in the selection process.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree level qualification (or equivalent) and/or CIPD professional qualification (or working towards one).
• Practical experience of working in a HR environment undertaking a broad range of HR activities, potentially as an HR Administrator or Assistant or similar.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills that enable you to have effective working relationships with a broad range of internal stakeholders.
• Experience using HR data to identify trends and make recommendations.
• Clear commitment to developing your career within HR.
• Experience managing and prioritising your workload, working with minimal instruction and achieving targets within required timescales.
• Demonstrated personal resilience and organisational skills to manage yourself and others.

We are Cafcass – the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service – and we represent children in family court cases in England. We independently advise the family courts about what is safe for children and is in their best interests, speaking up for over 140,000 children every year when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures, ensuring their needs, wishes and feelings are heard.