Trainee HR Officer

We are currently recruiting Trainee HR Officers to join our HR Business Partnering Team. On the 17th June, we’ll be hosting an in-person event in the Birmingham office (the timing is to be confirmed), where you’ll have the opportunity to meet some of the team, learn more about the team and gain a deeper understanding of the role. You can register for the event here.

This role may involve nationwide travel, and we’d be happy to discuss the expected frequency and typical locations with you. Ideally, you will be based in the Midlands.

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.

As a Trainee HR Officer, you will contribute to a busy, inclusive HR Operations team. The team plays an important role in partnering 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.

In terms of what you can expect to be doing in this role, this is likely to include:

• Under the direction and supervision of a HR Manager and/or HR Business Partner / Officer, you will be responsible for supporting the provision of a high quality, proactive HR service to frontline management teams and corporate services, across a full range of activities.
• To maintain the HR database and to analyse the data to produce reports as and when required.
• To support the local HRBP / HRO with collation, analysis and presentation of HR Management Information, to assist with the strategic workforce planning activity.
• Undertaking specific strands of project work as directed, including research activities, gathering, analysing and presenting information, liaison and negotiation with internal and external stakeholders and arranging meetings and briefings. Presenting findings in a confident and professional manner.

To be successful in this role, through your initial application / CV and subsequent selection process, we will be looking for you to demonstrate:

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

If and when you are ready to apply, our application process is straightforward and quick to complete. You don’t need to complete your application in a single visit, you can start it and come back and amend your responses / update your CV, just make sure you come back before the closing date to submit.

Below we have given you an indication of a timetable we are hoping to work towards, although dates are subject to change:

• Birmingham event: 17th June (timing tbc)
• Closing date: 29th June
• Telephone Interview: W/C 30th June
• Virtual Assessment: W/C 7th July
• Final Interview: W/C 14th July

Prior to being invited for a panel interview, if you meet our essential criteria and initial interview, we would invite you to participate in a work-based assessment held online with one of our colleagues to further help us determine your suitability.