People Co-Ordinator

Overview

Croydon, United Kingdom | Posted on 03/09/2025

Johnsons 1871, Our services are diverse and our delivery more so. With depots throughout the UK, we offer the opportunity to welcome you into a community which thrives on inspiring the future pioneers of our industry, whilst upholding our old-fashioned values. Our aim is to invest in the best people, training and processes and we never stop adapting and evolving to suit to needs of our changing world.

Job Description

This is a part time position of 22.5 hours per week over 4 days. As People Co-Ordinator you will provide first class HR support across the Johnson’s group. First and foremost, you will be a great administrator. Organised, excellent attention to detail and capable of managing a busy, varied workload. You will also ideally have previous experience working in a busy HR team.

Additionally, you will manage the day-to-day HR admin & recruitment needs for one of Johnsons biggest business units and get involved in a range of HR projects and initiatives.

• Manage all HR admin including offers, contracts, on-boarding, exit and in-life changes
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records in the HR system
• Conduct right to work, pre-employment, background, and security checks
• Place job adverts on job boards and with agency partners and undertake initial shortlisting
• Agree role requirements and selection process with hiring manager, organise interviews & notify unsuccessful applicants
• Assist with the smooth induction of new starters – including the completion of new starter forms
• Communicate details of new starters to colleagues to ensure facilities and IT equipment are available for Day 1
• Explain and enrol new starters in end of probation company benefits (PMI, Life Assurance and Pension Scheme)
• Carry out end of month check-in with new starters & managers
• Ensure end of probation reviews take place & escalate any concerns to People Partner
• Manage monthly payroll reporting, ensuring the submission is accurate & on time
• Set up and administer employee benefits including carrying out maternity interviews and maintaining contact with colleagues while off on maternity leave
• Assist with maintaining training and development records when staff attend training
• Provide basic HR guidance and advice to employees and managers (i.e. policy, best practice, benefits, sickness, time off, payroll, maternity/paternity)

Requirements

• Confident, approachable, and passionate about providing a great HR service
• Previous admin experience in either a HR, payroll or recruitment admin role in a fast-paced, multi-site environment
• Very organised and able to prioritise own workload
• Used to meeting deadlines and getting back to people in a timely manner
• Confident communicating
• Has a keen eye for detail and takes responsibility for ensuring information which is shared is accurate and tells a clear story
• Confident user of MS Office packages including Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook
• Confident user of HR system ideally Cezanne
• Flexible, team player

Benefits

• Pension Scheme
• Life insurance
• NHS Discount Scheme

Equal Opportunity Statement

All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other status protected by law.

We have a long heritage of being an inclusive employer which provides training and development in a positive learning environment.