Position: Senior HR Coordinator
Location: Witney, Oxfordshire - Hybrid
Hours: 35 contracted hours per week
Salary: £28,585.36 - £32,040.94 per annum (including geo allowance)
Closing Date: Friday 27th June 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 7th July 2025
Job ref: 4606
We regret to inform you that Advance is unable to accept any sponsorship requirements.
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly organised and detail-orientated Senior HR Coordinator to join our HR Operations team in a newly created role. This position offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to a values-led organisation and play a key role in delivering accurate, compliant and high-quality HR service.
Reporting to the HR Operations & Technology Manager, you will lead a small team and support the delivery of the core HR functions, with a particular focus on payroll, recruitment processing, and compliance. You will also provide essential support to your manager, using your initiative to drive improvements and ensure operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead and support a team of HR Coordinators, promoting high standards of performance and wellbeing
* Oversee the delivery of HR processes across the employee lifecycle, ensuring absolute accuracy and audit readiness
* Collaborate on recruitment and wellbeing initiatives, ensuring compliance with safer recruitment and health & safety standards
* Monitor service performance and implement improvements where necessary
* Provide timely and accurate advice on employment legislation and HR policy
About You:
* A good understanding of HR operations and employment law
* Exceptional attention to detailspotting inaccuracies others may overlook
* Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure
* Proven ability to manage sensitive information with discretion
* A proactive, solutions-focused approach and the confidence to support senior colleagues
* High levels of integrity and professionalism when handling sensitive information
This is a role where precision mattersyour ability to manage the detail will directly impact the quality and reliability of our HR service. If you take pride in getting things right and want to make a meaningful contribution, we encourage you to apply.
To review the role in more detail, please view the job description attached.
For more information about the role please contact, Julie Bond on Email:Julie.Bond@advanceuk.org
About the organisation:
Advance is a national, not-for-profit provider of housing and support services for people with disabilities and mental health conditions. Our vision is to transform lives; providing the best quality housing and support services so that people can live the lives they choose, achieve their personal goals, feel valued and know their voices are heard.
We recognise that our people are our greatest asset and we’re passionate about making Advance a great place to work. We invest in our staff, providing the training and support you need to succeed in your role, gain industry-recognised qualifications and realise your career aspirations.
We are an equal opportunities employer who values its staff and the difference they make to their customers. There is no place for racism or discrimination of any kind in Advance. As an organisation, we will not tolerate it. We are firmly committed to recruiting the best colleagues regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation and to supporting customers from similarly diverse backgrounds.
All newly appointed staff receive an induction, during which they will learn about our PRIDE values, our expectations of how they should treat our customers and our commitments in relation to how they will be treated as a member of staff.
Benefits of working for Advance:
We value our staff and the difference they make to the lives of our customers, which is why we offer the following benefits:
* Paid holiday (from 25 days up to 30 days with long service in addition to bank holidays, pro rata for part time hours)
* Sector specific training is provided as part of induction plus opportunities for professional development
* Access to Perks at Work where you can obtain great discounts of cinema tickets, shopping vouchers and much more
* Long service awards payable in 5 year increments
* Golden Hello/refer a friend receive up to £500
* Cycle to work scheme
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
* Excellent opportunities to progress your career within Advance
* Enrolment in a pension scheme with matched contributions above the statutory minimum (if you work enough hours to meet the threshold for enrolment)
Advance is regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing and the Care Quality Commission and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. You will be required to provide evidence of right to work. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be covered by Advance.
We value diversity and therefore welcome applications from everyone interested in working at Advance. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Advance Housing & Support Ltd reserves the right to close this job once sufficient applications have been received.