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Apprentice HR Advisor (Recruitment), Cleckheaton
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Client:
Bagnalls Group of Companies
Location:
Cleckheaton, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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Yes
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Job Reference:
b08da3c65514
Job Views:
7
Posted:
14.07.2025
Expiry Date:
28.08.2025
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Job Description:
Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire with National Travel
We are looking for to an appoint an Apprentice HR advisor who will support the careers of over 600 employees across our branch network of 14 UK sites. We want to recruit an individual who is passionate about supporting the recruitment, development and wellbeing of our people at work, to ensure that Bagnalls is an employer of choice.
The role involves national travel to support the development of strong relationships with key employees.
Bagnalls
This is an exciting time to join Bagnalls. We are a highly regarded, family-owned professional painting contractor celebrating 150 years in business in 2025. We deliver high-value commercial and decorative painting projects for a variety of customers including blue-chip companies, prestigious universities, and historic buildings. We pride ourselves on our core values of Safety, Integrity, Respect and People
Our recent awards speak volumes for the value of people within the business. These include:
* Large Employer of the Year, Apprenticeship and Training Awards, 2025
* Employer of the Year, Yorkshire Business of the Year Awards, 2025
The Role
This is a generalist HR role, including managing performance and supporting wellbeing. This HR Advisor will lead on the recruitment of our people, including overseeing the process for recruiting around 30 apprentices annually.
The likely apprenticeship offered would be the Level 5 People Professional. We would consider supporting someone through the Level 3 or Level 7 options where one of these would be more appropriate.
You
This is an apprenticeship position suitable for someone looking to enter or progress their career in human resources. Because you will be leading on the recruitment process, we are looking for someone who has a background where conducting recruitment and selection activities has been a key part of their current or previous role.
You will lead by example, with a strong commitment to your own personal continuous professional development.
Key Responsibilities:
* Recruitment and Selection:to carry out recruitment and selection processes for a range of roles.
* Employer Brand: to develop the brand of Bagnalls as an employer of choice
* Early Careers:to manage the annual recruitment process for our apprenticeship programme and for Management Trainees
* Induction and Onboarding: to support branches to ensure new starters have a positive start with the business with all necessary initial training undertaken
* HR: to carry out a range of generalist HR tasks including dealing with disciplinaries, grievance and performance management at named branches
* Learning and Development:to support the development and delivery of training packages, particularly those relating to recruitment, onboarding and employee support
* Employee Engagement:to support the People Team and branches in engaging employees across the group.
* Policies and Procedures:to support the development and implementation of HR policies and procedures.
Person Specification
* Experience of recruiting, including designing and placing adverts
* Experience of selection including interviewing
* A commitment to developing a career within recruitment and HR
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Inter-personal skills, including the ability to empathise and deliver challenging messages
* Strong IT skills including Microsoft Excel
* Ability to show initiative and to work independently, including prioritising own workload
* Capability and willingness to undertake CIPD qualifications
* Commitment to travel nationally including staying away from home periodically
* Full driving licence
* Experience of managing high volume recruitment in an agency or in-house recruitment role
* Experience of managing performance of others
The exact package will be dependent on skills and experience. Basic salary will be in the region of £25,000-£33,000, with discretionary bonus, fully expensed company car, life assurance, up to 8% contributory company pension scheme and family health insurance following minimum length of service. We offer all office staff 25 days’ annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays.
Hours: Full time (40 hours per week) Monday to Friday, with occasional evening work required.
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