Ref: TM23-1331
Location: Romford, Essex
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 + benefits
Type: Permanent

HR Operations Manager

We are delighted to be working with this very inspiring organisation to find them a hands on HR Operations Manager. Reporting into the Executive Head of HR, you will be partnering senior managers and overseeing all day to day elements of the HR service, providing a wide range of generalist advice and ensuring that the HR team meet their targets in engagement, retention, ED & I.

Additionally, you’ll be helping them forecast their resource needs, plan for succession and look at organisational design to ensure they have the right people in the right place doing the right jobs. You’ll coach and challenge your key stakeholders to embed and maintain the company’s strong values that are core to their business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner senior managers to develop engaging people plans that are aligned to the wider HR Strategy which also support their operational goals.
• Support managers to interpret internal and external data, identify areas for improvement, facilitate feedback sessions and create action plans which will add value.
• Play an active role in devising and delivering CPD training for non-academic staff and ensuring resources within the HR Team are available as needed to ensure the delivery of SLD training to academic teams effectively ensuring high levels of stakeholder involvement and keeping the ethos of purpose driven procedures at heart.
• Guide and advise Managers to support on resolving complex Employee Relations issues.
• Attend operational meetings to ensure key people messages are communicated.
• Support managers with organisational design, ensuring structures are fit for growth.
• Ensure compliance with legal and other internal requirements.
• Act as HR’s advocate directly, and promote and seek to continually develop employee benefits.
• Assist with workforce planning to create a picture of what resource and skills are needed.

Person Specification:

• Extensive HR/People partnering experience, embedding change initiatives through good HR practise, essentially in a unionised Further Education environment.
• Superb influencing skills, able to educate, coach & develop line managers, whilst leading and developing your HR team.
• Credible with the inner confidence and gravitas to push back in a supportive way.
• Strong employment law knowledge with a track record in the resolution of complex ER cases.
• Self-motivated and able to plan your own your workload efficiently
• CIPD Level 7 and experience of leading and managing an HR team in an FE environment.
• Experience of successfully planning and implementing people change initiatives.
• Able to engage and coach managers whilst challenging their thinking style and ways of working.

This role will suit an experienced HR Business Partner or HR Manager who wants to make a difference within an ambitious FE environment with a fun, inclusive, fast-paced culture.

For more information about this opportunity please get in touch.

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Tom Mornement or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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Ref: FV23-1330
Location: Bristol
Salary: £35-39,000 p.a.
Type: Fixed Term Contract

Interim Learning & Development Advisor

We are looking for an experienced Learning & Development Advisor or someone who has developed or trained people as part of their operational role who’s looking to move into a ‘pure development role’.   You will be joining a recently established and growing public sector organisation based in Bristol, which is responsible for some exciting projects across the South West. Initially the role is a 4 month interim contract, however, there is potential for this to be extended and possibly become permanent.   With this in mind we are looking for someone with potential to step up into a more senior L&D Partner/Manager position in the future.

Reporting to the outgoing, experienced and engaging Learning & OD Partner, this is an exciting and ultimately satisfying role with plenty of opportunity to add value.  This is a hybrid role working 2 days a week in the central Bristol offices and 2 or 3 days remote.   They will consider someone working 4 or 5 days a week.

The L&D Advisor will work closely with the Learning & OD Partner alongside the senior leadership team to diagnose learning needs which build capability, scoping, designing and delivering relevant, adding value learning solutions.This is a very fast paced and rapidly growing environment with a highly educated, degree qualified workforce and so offers an ambitious driven Learning and Development professional great opportunities to make a difference.

Responsibilities:

• Provide support to the L&OD Partner in the development, planning and delivery of performance and development initiatives, programs and complex L&D projects.
• Keep the L&D Policy and its supporting processes and documentation under regular review.
• Act as systems lead for the Learning Management System, set up regular reports and ensure these are scheduled.
• Provide training, advice and support to the HR team and across the organisation on the use and management of the LMS.
• Develop and create a standard for L&D KPI reporting for the Leadership Team and provide monthly updates.
• Design in house training programs and where required, to deliver and present training programs.
• Support the L&OD Partner with the research of L&D opportunities, including obtaining details and costings for external specialist training providers as required.
• Act as the Apprenticeship Co-ordinator for existing staff and, with the L&OD partner to work with the Resourcing team on the development of an apprenticeship program and make best use of the levy.
• Work closely with the L&OD Partner on a number of exciting L&D projects such as improving leadership capability, EDI projects, and improving project management skills across all levels.

Person Specification

• Able to demonstrate the internal consulting and coaching skills to work with stakeholders and the relationship management skills to partner external providers as well as internal clients.
• A Graduate with a good record of academic achievement, project management skills and gravitas.
• You will have a knowledge of a range of development styles and will have developed the skill to facilitate small groups and stakeholder discussions.You will be collaborative in style.
• Must be credible with the gravitas to positively influence within a driven, high intellect environment.
• Some of the learning delivery is via external vendors so the ability to partner with them will be vital to achieving successful outcomes.
• This role would suit someone who can demonstrate a record of achievement in and a passion for behavioural development who would relish access to senior stakeholders and has the credibility and aptitude to form influential relationships.
• We are looking for someone who is solutions oriented, with a high energy positive ‘can-do’ attitude, who can evidence going beyond their remit.

This is an exciting hybrid opportunity to work with and learn from a highly experienced and engaging line manager on a number of adding value learning & development projects in a positive growing organisation with significant investment.

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Fiona Vennbrook or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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Ref: FV23-1327a
Location: Hinkley Point, Bridgwater, Somerset
Salary: £27-30,000p.a. pro-rata'd
Type: Permanent Part-time

Part-Time HR Coordinator

We are looking for a fast-paced, high potential Part-Time HR Coordinator 4 days a week,  who has the desire and capacity to grow and develop into a bigger role. We would also consider an operations person, i.e. a retail or hospitality manager/supervisor/team leader looking to move into a pure HR role.

You will be working with one of the companies contracted to help develop the site at Hinkley point and it’s anticipated that numbers of employees will grow significantly as the project progresses.

Reporting to the remote based, fast paced, pragmatic Senior HR Business Partner, this is a broad HR generalist support role, covering all HR services. It is based 4 days a week on site, so you must live within easy commuting distance.   Free transport provided from many places including: Taunton, Burnham, Bridgwater and Bristol, plus others.

Key responsibilities:

• Assist with recruitment, arrange interviews, co-ordinate new on-boarding and inductions. On-boarding is complex, so attention to detail is needed.
• Be the first point of contact for all HR and ER related queries
• Process weekly starters and leavers and administer HR-related documentation, maintain Employee files.
• Ensure the relevant HR & Payroll system is maintained accurately.
• Action all sickness records, reporting any ‘long-term’ absences to the relevant HR team member.
• Arrange and assist with note taking of disciplinaries.
• Work with Training Department, coordinate training and liaise with Apprentices and apprentice providers.

Person Specification

• It would suit someone with significant HR administration experience within a large, fast paced, growing private sector company.
• Alternatively it would also suit an Operations Manager/supervisor/Team Leader with HR knowledge and good attention to detail looking for a role in HR.
• Computer literate and be able to create reports and spreadsheets and work with HR systems
• Excellent communication skills to deal with staff and external clients
• A basic understanding of Employee Relations and current employment legislation.
• Able to demonstrate having met demanding targets and deadlines
• Be proactive and able to work using your own initiative.
• Excellent attention to detail and good communication skills.
• Happy to work 4 days on site at Hinkley. Transport is provided to site from various main locations in Somerset.

This is a very fast paced, varied role.

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Fiona Vennbrook or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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Ref: TM23-1328
Location: South Devon
Salary: c£50,000 + good benefits
Type: Permanent

HR Business Partner

We are delighted to be working with this very successful organisation to find them an inspirational HR Business Partner. Reporting into the Head of HR, you will be partnering senior managers to create and deliver a people plan that drives engagement, retention, E, D & I and development to meet the demands of growth, whilst being an exceptional place to work.

Additionally, you’ll be helping them forecast their resource needs, plan for succession and look at organisational design to ensure they have the right people in the right place doing the right jobs. You’ll coach and challenge your key stakeholders to embed and maintain the company’s strong values that are core to their business.

As well as some operational HR and ER, you will be supporting and partnering the delivery of complex change projects that require strong project management skills and excellent stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner senior managers to develop engaging people plans that are aligned to the wider HR Strategy which also support their operational goals.
• Support managers to interpret internal and external data, identify areas for improvement, facilitate feedback sessions and create action plans which will add value.
• Offer on the ground support with change projects within your areas.
• Guide and advise Managers to support on resolving complex Employee Relations issues.
• Attend operational meetings to ensure key people messages are communicated.
• Support managers with organisational design, ensuring structures are fit for growth
• Assist with workforce planning to create a picture of what resource and skills are needed, sharing insight with the Talent and L&D teams
• Support managers to identify high potential talent, to enable planning and preparing for future roles and assisting with Personal Development Plans as needed

Person Specification

• Extensive HR/People partnering experience, embedding change initiatives through good project management, preferably in an industrial environment: supply chain, manufacturing etc.
• Superb influencing skills, able to educate, coach & develop line managers.
• Credible with the inner confidence and gravitas to push back in a supportive way.
• Strong employment law knowledge with a track record in the resolution of complex ER cases.
• Self-motivated and able to plan your own your workload efficiently
• Creative and innovative, with a proven track record in designing people initiatives that add value.
• Able to engage and coach managers whilst challenging their thinking style and ways of working.

This is a permanent, hybrid full-time position.

Success means much more than just profits; our client wants to continue be a place people enjoy coming to work, and a business their staff are proud of.

This role will suit a commercially astute, experienced HR Business Partner/Manager who wants to make a difference in an ambitious business with a fun, dynamic, fast-paced culture.

 

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Tom Mornement or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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Ref: FV23-1327
Location: Hinkley Point, Bridgwater, Somerset
Salary: c. £30,000 p.a. + benefits
Type: Permananent

HR Coordinator

We are looking for a fast-paced, high potential HR Coordinator who has the desire and capacity to grow and develop into a bigger role. We would also consider an operations person, i.e. a retail or hospitality manager/supervisor/team leader looking to move into a pure HR role.

You will be working with one of the companies contracted to help develop the site at Hinkley point and it’s anticipated that numbers of employees will grow significantly as the project progresses. With this in mind we are looking for someone who’s seeking and has the capacity for quick progression.

Reporting to the remote based, fast paced, pragmatic Senior HR Business Partner, this is a broad HR generalist support role, covering all HR services. It is based 4 days a week on site and 1 day remote.

Key responsibilities:

• Assist with recruitment, arrange interviews, co-ordinate new on-boarding and inductions. On-boarding is complex, so attention to detail is needed.
• Be the first point of contact for all HR and ER related queries
• Process weekly starters and leavers and administer HR-related documentation, maintain Employee files.
• Ensure the relevant HR & Payroll system is maintained accurately.
• Action all sickness records, reporting any ‘long-term’ absences to the relevant HR team member.
• Arrange and assist with note taking of disciplinaries.
• Support in social impact and outreach programs
• Work with Training Department, coordinate training and liaise with Apprentices and apprentice providers.

Person Specification

• We are looking for either an HR or Business Studies Graduate (with HR Modules) who has good theoretical HR knowledge and some solid administration office experience. It would also suit someone with significant HR administration experience within a large, fast paced, growing private sector company looking for career progression.
• Alternatively it would also suit an Operations Manager/supervisor/Team Leader with HR knowledge and good attention to detail looking for a role in HR.
• Computer literate and be able to create reports and spreadsheets and work with HR systems
• Excellent communication skills to deal with staff and external clients
• A basic understanding of Employee Relations and current employment legislation.
• Able to demonstrate having met demanding targets and deadlines
• Be proactive and able to work using your own initiative.
• Excellent attention to detail and good communication skills.
• Happy to work 4 days on site at Hinkley with one day remote. Transport is provided to site from various main locations in Somerset.

This is a great opportunity to grow and develop as this project grows and develops.

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Fiona Vennbrook or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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