Ref: FV23-1308A
Location: Thornbury, North Bristol
Salary: £30-32,000 p.a.
Type: Permanent

HR Coordinator Team Leader

We are currently working with a values driven charitable organisation based just north of Bristol to help find them a proactive, ambitious HR Coordinator Team Leader who wants to add value and hopefully looking to progress into an HR Advisor role. The role is working on site in Thornbury, Noth Bristol and so you need to be living within close commuting distance.

Reporting to a newly appointed, engaging, inspiring and warm Head of HR this is a super opportunity to make a difference and they will consider people looking for both full-time or part-time (minimum 30 hours a week).

Key Responsibilities:

• Support, manage, develop and motivate an HR team of 3 to set up and maintain all operational HR systems, processes and files to ensure that all are up to date and accurate.
• Ensure that the recruitment procedure is fit for purpose and that social media is used effectively based on regular analyses of data.
• Develop, implement and maintain HR policies and procedures to ensure all are effective, lawful, fair and consistent and that the staff handbook is comprehensive and up-to-date.
• Oversee the recruitment via the UKVI portal for overseas applicants. Assist and support overseas employees to settle when arriving in the UK.
• Work closely with managers, providing them with guidance and quality advice on the full range of HR activities including policies and procedures, terms and conditions of employment, absence management, restructuring, performance management, employment law, maternity and paternity leave administration and flexible working requests. Manage health issues, occupational health issues and medical referrals.
• Support the finance team with all matters related to payroll.
• Provide support on employee relations issues including investigations, disciplinary, capability and grievance matters.
• Overseeing the induction of admin and HR staff.
• Take part in interview panels, when required, using safer recruitment techniques.
• Attend the weekly Training meetings, when required, and assist the Head of HR with the design, coordination and evaluation of the organisations comprehensive training framework.

Person Specification:

• Significant experience of adding value within a busy operational HR Administration environment especially with strong recruitment administration experience, on-boarding and new starters.
• Evidence of recent relevant professional development i.e. HR or Business Degree with HR or CIPD
• Experience of staff supervision in any capacity with the credibility to develop and motivate an HR Admin team.
• Preferably a graduate with 1 to 2 years’ experience in an HR Admin role.
• Someone who goes the extra mile, can identify areas for improvement and put in solutions.
• An excellent communicator who can present a new idea and gain engagement to new ways of working.
• Excellent IT skills and attention to detail.
• It would suit someone who has one or 2 years in HR admin (who’s had previous management experience elsewhere) who is looking for the next step up and to use their HR theory learned say through CIPD or an HR or Business degree to help create an adding value HR function.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who’s happy to roll up their sleeves and get on with whatever needs to be done and who wants to add value and make a difference.

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: TM23-1313
Location: London
Salary: c£75,000 + good benefits
Type: Permanent

HR Business Partner

Are you a true generalist HR Business Partner? If so, this role might be of interest to you. We are looking for an experienced HR Business Partner for this varied role. With a requirement to perform multiple duties, ensuring the successful and efficient running of our clients business. From recruitment and onboarding to payroll and performance cycles, you’ll be the sort of person who enjoys an environment where you wear many hats, and no two days are the same.

Whilst this role is based in the UK, our client has a truly global reach. Therefore, you will be responsible for adapting your approach to ensure compliance with convention in the different countries including (but not limited to) UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Australia, Luxembourg, Japan and USA.

HR Business Partner Responsibilities

• Serve as the credible subject matter expert on all matters relating to performance management, talent acquisition, compliance, employee relations, culture and values.
• Responsible for maintaining control over all expenses and budgets pertaining to the HR budget.
• Provide accurate monthly HR metric reporting and follow up with the Business Leaders; translate workforce data into meaningful plans for leaders to act upon. Identify and recommend areas of improvement.
• As per the company cycle:
  • Employee Engagement Survey – development, implementation and post-activities.
  • Employee Wellbeing activities – implement activities that support employee wellness and growth.
  • Talent and Succession Planning – drive talent management strategy powered by regular talent reviews and talent action meetings to build a strong leadership pipeline.
  • Performance Review Cycle – Encourage country leads and regional managers to develop a 360° feedback culture.

Skills and Experience

• c8 years of experience in general HR management ideally with 2+ years of experience in multi-site, international managerial role.
• Strong organizational, planning, prioritizing and administrative skills; ability to self-direct in a fast-paced, multi-task environment.
• Credible HR professional with a global mind-set, strong interpersonal skills and ability to build effective relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Experience in working with or in large global organisations.
• Strong problem solving and creative skills with the ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions based on accurate and timely analyses.
• Strong leadership, facilitation and influencing skills to support and counsel others.
• Proven experience in international recruitment processes for senior management positions.
• High level of integrity, dependability, and confidentiality.
• Ability to learn from experiences, capitalise on mistakes and seize opportunities.
• Experience working with global operations and diverse workforces.
• CIPD Level 7

For more information about this genuinely exciting opportunity please get in touch at your earliest opportunity.

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: LM23-1310
Location: Taunton/Hybrid
Salary: £30,000 + Benefits
Type: Permanent

This is a brand new role arising from a recent restructure and supporting our client going through significant change.

Reporting into the HR Operations Manager you will provide an effective and efficient HR Advisory service in line with policies and procedures, employment legislation and best practice.

As well as managing a varied and often complex caseload of employee relations issues and responding to the whole employee lifecycle queries. There are a number of HR projects and programmes you can contribute in the delivery.

A confident communicator you will lead training sessions for managers on HR policies, process and other HR initiatives. And be good at establishing and developing strong working relationships at all levels from the senior team, to colleagues.

You’ll bring with you experience of HR IT systems and have a desire to utilise the HR system as much as possible to produce KPIs and stats that will impact on how HR is delivered.

Person Specification

• Ideally CIPD qualified or working towards with significant generalist HR experience
• Experience of identifying and developing a range of effective office processes/systems, ensuring maintenance and improvements.
• Excellent knowledge of employment legislation in all areas, able to put knowledge into practice in protecting the company from liability.
• Need a good ideas person who is resilient, ‘can-do’ and who can make things happen.
• Friendly, approachable, and able to relate to all levels of this business.
• Excellent and highly developed time management skills with the ability to recognise and respond to conflicting priorities or sudden unexpected demands and adjust tasks as required.
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Exceptional Knowledge of Microsoft Office

This role might suit an experienced HR Administrator looking for that next step in their HR career or someone looking to transition into HR.

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 Louise McMilan 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: TM23-1309
Location: Taunton
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 + car allowance and benefits
Type: Permanent

HR Business Partner

A new role has arisen for an experienced HR Business Partner to support one of our clients going through a significant period of change. Based in and around the West Country our client, a leading provider in the Care Industry, is embarking on a programme of restructuring and harmonisation following new investment.

Amongst other things you’ll oversee recruitment, training and development, employee relations along with the day-to-day HR support. This role will be busy, interesting and provides opportunity for you to make your mark with the support of the wider People and Culture Team.

This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive and commercial HR Business Partner who’s looking to work with a fast paced, leading edge businesses.

This role will suit a fast paced, solutions oriented individual who can communicate effectively at all levels. It is expected that there will be some travel to sites locally, the successful individual will be able to manage their own diary to incorporate some hybrid working.

Person Specification

We are looking for someone who can start immediately and evidence the following;

• Strong Employee Relations experience.
• Experience of owning HR activities.
• Experience of coaching managers on people processes and developing the tools and training necessary to embed this.
• Resilient and persistent, not afraid to have challenging conversations.
• Up to date Knowledge of employment law.
• Strong IT skills, particularly excel.
• Experience of managing, engaging stakeholders and driving forward HR projects.
• Able to flex your approach to adapt to the needs of an evolving, growing and changing environment.
• Being proactive with excellent problem solving skills.
• No airs and graces, willing to muck in and get on with whatever needs doing.
• Able to plan and organise workloads effectively.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation and written communication skills.
• Well-developed influencing and negotiating skills.
• Good judgement; confident, persuasive, approachable and dependable.

 

This role will suit a commercially astute, Business Partner/Manager who wants to make a difference within an ambitious business within 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: FV23-1306A
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Salary: £200.00 per day
Type: Interim

Interim HR Generalist

We are currently seeking an interim operational HR Generalist who is happy to roll up their sleeves and get on with whatever needs doing in terms of operational HR for our  industrial, engineering client based in South Plymouth.  This  a day rate role to support the 700 employees in all aspects of HR,  whilst the company recruits permanent employees.  It is primarily an operational role in a tough ER/IR lean in HR environment and will give great opportunity to work on and resolve complex employee relations issues.  In order to work well in this environment you will need to be resilient with superb influencing skills.   .

Working with the remote Snr HRBP, this is a broad generalist role encompassing: full ownership of the recruitment process, employee relations, coaching/development and other HR services. You will partner line managers on HR/ER issues and people management processes, developing and delivering training initiatives that support the organisational goals. This will be advising managers to drive their effectiveness, supporting on any ER issues and recruitment, implementing engagement strategies and action plans and generally helping your stakeholders by adding value and providing solutions to their people issues.

Based on site preferably 4 days a week, you will need to live within easy commute distance of South Plymouth. For exceptional candidates there may be the opportunity to work 3 days on site and 2 remote.   The hours are early start early finish – 8am-4:15pm and finishing really early on Friday at 1:30pm!

Due to the operational rather than strategic nature of the role, it is paying £200/day and will be anything from 2-4 months.

Person Specification

• A strong HR Generalist with broad operational HR capability including recruitment, Employee Relations and people development. Some coaching experience would be ideal.
• Able to start immediately and happy to work on a day rate and short term contract.
• Within easy commuting distance of Plymouth.
• Preferably part or fully CIPD qualified.
• Experience of working effectively in a fast paced operational role preferably in a private sector engineering, manufacturing or industrial organisation.
• Credible, with the gravitas and ability to influence at all levels especially in a male dominated shop floor environment.
• Results-oriented, meets commitments, takes a pro-active approach
• Happy to roll up sleeves and get on with whatever needs doing.

This is a broad and very varied generalist operational interim HR role with lots of autonomy.

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: FV23-1306
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Salary: c. £35,000 p.a. + great benefits
Type: Permanent

HR Advisor

We are currently seeking a proactive HR Advisor who is looking for a fast paced role and who is happy to work in an industrial engineering environment based in South Plymouth. This is primarily an operational role in a tough ER/IR and lean in HR environment.  It will give great opportunity to work on and resolve complex employee relations issues.  In order to work well in this environment you will need to be resilient with superb influencing skills.  Working closely with the remote fast paced Senior HRBP you also will help to drive forward positive adding value HR initiatives.

Working with the Snr HRBP and with the support of the 2 on-site HR Assistants this is a broad generalist role encompassing: full ownership of the recruitment process (c 30% of the role), employee relations, coaching/development and some really interesting adding value projects. You will partner line managers on HR/ER issues and people management processes, developing and delivering training initiatives that support the organisational goals. This will require a strong focus on coaching and developing managers to drive their effectiveness, supporting on any ER issues and recruitment, implementing engagement strategies and action plans and generally helping your stakeholders by adding value and providing solutions to their people issues.

It will give an ambitious HR Advisor lots of opportunity to develop and learn all aspects of operational HR. Based on site preferably 4 days a week, you will need to live within easy commute distance of South Plymouth. For exceptional candidates there may be the opportunity to work 3 days on site and 2 remote.The hours are early start early finish – 8am-4:15pm and finishing really early on Friday at 1:30pm! It also comes with great benefits: 5% bonus, 5% employer pension contribution and 25 days holidays + bank holidays.

Person Specification

• A strong HR Advisor with a broad generalist background including recruitment, Employee Relations and people development. Some coaching experience would be ideal.
• Preferably part or fully CIPD qualified.
• Experience of working effectively at HR Advisor Level, preferably in a private sector engineering, manufacturing or industrial organisation.
• Credible, with the gravitas and ability to influence at all levels especially in a male dominated shop floor environment.
• Strong business acumen and able to evidence adding value to the bottom line though the design and implementation of commercial HR Initiatives
• Results-oriented, meets commitments, takes a pro-active approach
• Happy to roll up sleeves and get on with whatever needs doing.

This is a broad and very varied generalist role with lots of autonomy and no two days are the same.

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: FV23-1305
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Salary: £25,000 p.a.
Type: Permanent

HR Coordinator / HR Assistant

We are looking for a fast-paced, high potential HR Assistant/HR Coordinator who has the desire and capacity to grow and develop into a bigger role. You will be working with an industrial engineering organisation based in South Plymouth.

Reporting to the on-site HR Advisor with support from the remote, dynamic Senior HRBP, this is a broad HR generalist support role, covering all HR services and administration.

This role will suit someone who is resilient and happy to work in a tough, industrial, male dominated environment.   It will give an ambitious, proactive person huge scope to develop and advance within the HR arena.

The role is working 4 days on site and one day remote so you would need to live with easy commute of South Plymouth.  Potentially for exceptional candidates there would be the opportunity to work 2 days remote.  The working week is 8am-4:15pm, so an early start and finish…..and a super early finish on a Friday at 1:30pm!  It offers great benefits including 25 days holiday + Bank holidays, 5% bonus, and 5% employer contribution to the pension.

Key responsibilities:

• Be the first point of contact for all HR 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.
• Assist with recruitment, arrange interviews, co-ordinate new on-boarding and inductions.
• Support in social impact and outreach programmes
• Work with Training Department, coordinate training and liaise with Apprentices and apprentice providers

Person Specification

• This would suit either an HR or Business Studies Graduate (with HR Modules) who has good theoretical HR knowledge and some solid administration office experience or someone with significant HR administration experience within a large, fast paced, growing private sector company.
• We would also consider, operational management candidates from fast paced industries, such as retail or care who have had exposure to HR issues and HR Administration who are looking to pursue a career 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
• Full understanding of the service needed to support a busy HR department
• 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.

This is a great opportunity for an ambitious person to grow and develop in a fast paced, industrial environment.

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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