People Officer

If you're passionate about HR and are looking to take the next step in your career, the People Team at Ward Hadaway want to hear from you! We're looking for a People Officer to join our ever growing firm.

Your role will be to support the delivery of a professional and efficient People function in line with our firm's objectives. Supporting our Head of People and People Manager, you'll be the first point of contact for People related activities.

What will I be doing?

• Providing support to the firm on all People related activities, including but not limited to probations, absence, performance, onboarding etc.
• Supporting the delivery of the People Business Plan and associated projects which involves things such as, wellbeing initiatives, performance reviews, recruitment, engagement activities, etc.
• Working closely with a team of People Advisors, Payroll Manager and People Administrator to ensure accurate and timely data is captured within our HRIS as well as supporting the management of our busy People Team inbox.
• Maintaining and supporting the development of our HRIS by ensuring data is up to date, accurate, and GDPR compliant. You'll ensure that workflows and system processes are supporting efficient and effective people related activities.
• Supporting the delivery of People Team induction to new joiners, which take place on a fortnightly basis.

You'll have:

• Experience working within a HR Assistant role or similar role.
• The ability to build credibility and strong relationships with key stakeholders across our firm.
• The ability to work autonomously and independently ensuring workloads are effectively managed and communicated.
• A CIPD Level 3 qualification would be advantageous but not essential.

About us:

We're proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we're one of the UK's Top 100 law firms. When you join us you’ll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We're passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving Firm filled with individuality and differences strengthen our teams, our clients and our communities.

What we can offer you

We’re committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we’re always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week working from one of our offices.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please contact [email protected] quoting vacancy reference HR.0925.

If you require any adjustments to be made to our recruitment process, please request a call back via the above email address.

Agencies - please note that we are not currently instructing agents to support with this role. Please do not send speculative CVs.