Job summary
Expected Shortlisting Date
12/08/2025
Planned Interview Date
18/08/2025
NOTE: May close early if recieve significant applicants
We are recruiting two motivated and detail-focused HR Support Administrative Officers to join our centralised HR Core Admin Team. This is a highly visible and valued role that supports Trust-wide HR activity, including employee references, variation orders, hearing coordination, panel logistics, and data integrity tasks. The team is responsible for maintaining key workflows that underpin our people governance processes.
You will join a small but highly effective admin team that works professionally with HR senior leaders, managers, payroll services, and staff side colleagues to deliver consistently excellent results. While aligned to the central HR Core Admin function, this team forms part of a wider administrative network that supports the full range of activity across Human Resources function. The role also includes supporting the central HR advice telephone line, offering professional first-line response and effective signposting to the correct teams or processes.
Main duties of the jobManage shared HR inboxes, triaging and categorising emails relating to variation orders, references, panels and appeals.
Provide first-line cover for the HR telephone advice line, responding to routine queries and signposting effectively to HR or payroll contacts.
Support HR senior leaders with administrative tasks including the coordination of appeals, panel packs, and timely documentation handling.
Prepare and format HR letters, certificates, panel packs and meeting notes using standard templates.
Contribute to hearing prep including booking rooms, organising pre-reads, printing, and formal minute formatting.
Manage various other key activity within the HR admin function working closely with your HR Support Team Leader to provide the best possible services for our stakeholders
About usLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the UK. With around 22,000 staff, we provide a range of both general and specialist hospital services to patients from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond. We are committed to The Leeds Way our values-based approach that underpins everything we do.
The HR Core Admin Team plays a central and highly visible role in supporting Trust-wide HR functions. We handle critical workflows that ensure the smooth delivery of people processes and employment governance. You will be part of a small but trusted admin team known for its professionalism and impact, contributing directly to the wider work of Human Resources functions within your role.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Details Date posted29 July 2025
Pay schemeAgenda for change
BandBand 3
Salary£24,937 to £26,598 a year
ContractPermanent
Working patternFull-time
Reference numberC9298-HMR-0113
Job locationsSt. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Job Description Text for NHS Jobs Portal (HR Support Admin Officer, Band 3)
This is a key administrative role within our HR Core Admin Team a small but effective unit working visibly across the LTHT HR CSU. While you will be part of the centralised HR admin function, your duties directly contribute to Trust-wide people processes including governance, compliance, and panel support.
Further Duties for the Role:
Coordinating and formatting HR documents such as references, variation orders, panel packs, and letters
Supporting HR senior leaders with the smooth running of formal hearings, including booking logistics and managing documentation
Providing first-line response to staff via the HR advice telephone line and shared inbox, with a focus on accurate and timely signposting
Liaising with payroll, recruitment, staff side and wider HR partners to ensure documents are properly received and recorded
Using Microsoft Excel and HR trackers to manage deadlines, monitor progress and escalate delays where appropriate
Core Values and Expectations:
This role is guided by The Leeds Way values (Patient-centred, Collaborative, Fair, Accountable, Empowered) and requires a professional, discreet and highly organised approach to admin work. You should have a strong sense of ownership for your duties, and a commitment to quality, accuracy and confidentiality.
Departmental Context:
You will report to the HR Support Team Leader and work closely with the Admin Team Manager. You will also interact with HR Business Partners and Stakeholders across the CSU. Your work underpins key admin support to processes like appeals, disciplinary hearings, and employee reference fulfilment. The service is fast-moving and confidential in nature, and your role is essential to ensuring these processes run smoothly and are auditable.
Physical, Mental, and Emotional Effort Required:
You will work primarily at a screen using Outlook, Word, Lists, Excel and various IT system..
You will need strong attention to detail and ability to maintain focus while managing competing admin requests.
Occasional emotional resilience is required when supporting processes involving grievances and our trust colleagues contact us requiring support advice for you to signpost them to the appropriate resource.
Why join us?
This is an ideal role if you are looking to deepen your HR admin experience in a visible and impactful setting. You will be part of a trusted team delivering excellent service, while being supported to grow your skills, confidence and career in NHS administration.
This is a summary only. The full Job Description and Person Specification are available via download.
Job description Job responsibilitiesJob Description Text for NHS Jobs Portal (HR Support Admin Officer, Band 3)
This is a key administrative role within our HR Core Admin Team a small but effective unit working visibly across the LTHT HR CSU. While you will be part of the centralised HR admin function, your duties directly contribute to Trust-wide people processes including governance, compliance, and panel support.
Further Duties for the Role:
Coordinating and formatting HR documents such as references, variation orders, panel packs, and letters
Supporting HR senior leaders with the smooth running of formal hearings, including booking logistics and managing documentation
Providing first-line response to staff via the HR advice telephone line and shared inbox, with a focus on accurate and timely signposting
Liaising with payroll, recruitment, staff side and wider HR partners to ensure documents are properly received and recorded
Using Microsoft Excel and HR trackers to manage deadlines, monitor progress and escalate delays where appropriate
Core Values and Expectations:
This role is guided by The Leeds Way values (Patient-centred, Collaborative, Fair, Accountable, Empowered) and requires a professional, discreet and highly organised approach to admin work. You should have a strong sense of ownership for your duties, and a commitment to quality, accuracy and confidentiality.
Departmental Context:
You will report to the HR Support Team Leader and work closely with the Admin Team Manager. You will also interact with HR Business Partners and Stakeholders across the CSU. Your work underpins key admin support to processes like appeals, disciplinary hearings, and employee reference fulfilment. The service is fast-moving and confidential in nature, and your role is essential to ensuring these processes run smoothly and are auditable.
Physical, Mental, and Emotional Effort Required:
You will work primarily at a screen using Outlook, Word, Lists, Excel and various IT system..
You will need strong attention to detail and ability to maintain focus while managing competing admin requests.
Occasional emotional resilience is required when supporting processes involving grievances and our trust colleagues contact us requiring support advice for you to signpost them to the appropriate resource.
Why join us?
This is an ideal role if you are looking to deepen your HR admin experience in a visible and impactful setting. You will be part of a trusted team delivering excellent service, while being supported to grow your skills, confidence and career in NHS administration.
This is a summary only. The full Job Description and Person Specification are available via download.
Person Specification Skills & behaviours EssentialLeeds Teaching Hospitals
AddressSt. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details Employer nameLeeds Teaching Hospitals
AddressSt. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
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