About the Service / Department

Hestia's Human Resources team is a growing, ambitious and highly professional team which is always looking to innovate. The HR Team provide excellent customer service, and strive to work in a fast paced, flexible and solution focused way.

This role involves HR administration for the whole employee journey, from hiring to leaving. You will advise employees and managers on HR policies and processes, handle people changes and data management, and ensure HR compliance with DBS checks and absence tracking. You will work full time onsite in Beaufort House, located in Aldgate, London, under the HR Service Centre Manager.

About the role

Provide full generalist people support for teams across the organisation and within the department, Respond to queries from employees and managers ensuring that the HR shared mailbox is managed effectively, To update employee data by undertaking work on personnel files, sickness records, employee relations etc. Support the employees with the completion of periodical compliance checks including and not limited to Right to Work, DBS, Referencing, etc. To support the HR Service Centre Manager with a range of administrative tasks including undertaking correspondence, setting up and maintaining files and spreadsheets, ad hoc projects and development work, etc. Implementing and administering human resources policies and procedure, Provide regular updates to the organisation, keeping line managers informed of the workflow and progress within HR, To input all people change information into the HR systems in time to monthly payroll deadline, and to produce employee change letters resulting from such change, Support the HR Service Centre Manager with any administrative tasks associated with the restructuring or TUPE processes from beginning to end including providing data (as requested) to colleagues (Human Resource Business Partyers) and take an active role in consultations, including attending meetings (as required), arrange pre employment meetings for TUPE colleagues, ensuring the whole administration journey is completed. Review and maintain HR content on Hestia Nest every quarter and update policies as appropriate, as per guidance from HR Service Centre Manager. Provide administration for Reward Gateway, including and not limited to update records on the system, for long service recognition and reviewing benefit applications in line with current procedures. Provide cover for HR Administrator duties in periods of absence, including and not limited to onboarding, recruitment, ad hoc tasks, etc. Undertake specific ad hoc project work as required by the HR Service Centre Manager To create/produce regular reports for monitoring and management purposes from these systems as well as various monthly reports. Engage in weekly and monthly meetings as required, and take an actively collaborative role in these meetings, Take responsibility of your own learning and development. About You

Experience of working in a HR department provide service to a mid size organisation, Working knowledge of Employment Law and generalist HR working practice, policies and procedures, Professional communication skills both in written and spoken English, Strong IT skills with a good understanding of MS Excel & Word and HRIS experience is desirable but not essential, Experience of dealing with day to day queries and having a customer focused attitude, Efficient administrator who can demonstrate attentions to details. Be able to work under pressure and deliver a high-volume workload. Demonstrate a flexible and proactive approach to work. Please note if offered a role with Hestia, you will be issued a conditional offer based on satisfactory references and a Basic or Enhanced DBS check.

Disability confident

Hestia is a disability confident employer, committed to the employment and career development of individual with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we operate a guaranteed interview scheme for all applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the role they have applied for. We will also accommodate reasonable adjustment during the selection and interview process and throughout your employment with us.

Hestia positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. But we particularly welcome individuals from an ethnic minority background and those with disabilities to apply. As an organisation, we are committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce and value the skills, abilities, talent and experiences, different people and communities bring to our organisation.