HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER
G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services
Oakhill Secure Training Centre, Milton Keynes, MK5 6AJ
Salary range: £36,809.02 per annum
Permanent, Full Time (40 hours per week)
Benefits: Company Pension, free on-site parking, on-site canteen, ongoing training and development and access to High Street Shop discounts.
Are looking for your next challenge? Are you a highly organised and focused HR Professional?
Do you have drive? Enthusiasm? Work well under pressure? Have a good sense of humour?
Rarely does an opportunity to make your mark and further your HR career come up like this in a very unique environment.
About us
G4S Care & Rehabilitation Services (CaRS) currently manages four prisons, one secure training centre and a number of community contracts in England and Wales. The philosophy of our secure environments is to rehabilitate offenders and equip them to re-integrate into mainstream society on release.
At Oakhill Secure Training Centre we look after young people aged 12 to 18 years old who have been remanded or sentenced to periods of detention. The vulnerable young people in our care can be challenging with a wide range of social and emotional complex needs. This is an environment that calls for high standards of social care and service delivery to provide a secure and stable environment for young people to develop their life skills and address the behaviours that have led them into custody.
Oakhill Secure Training Centre works closely with the Youth Custody Services to ensure that its regimes and designs reflect best practice in residential care to prevent offending.
About the Role
We now have an exciting opportunity for a Human Resources Officer to join our onsite HR Team at Oakhill Secure Training Centre. Being a generalist HR Officer with experience of dealing with first level Employee Relations Cases you will provide professional advice, guidance and support to operational and line management to meet the needs of the business in line with legislation and best practice.
Key Responsibilities of this role are:
* Provide professional HR support and accurate and appropriate advice, including advice on diversity, absence, grievance and disciplinary, to line management to minimise risk of litigation in accordance with current legislation.
* Lead on absence management process with guidance and support from the HR Manager. Produce daily absence reports and liaise with managers to ensure effective management of absence, assisting in home visits, welfare meetings, return to works and provision of occupational health reports where required.
* Lead on first line sickness disciplinaries and other first line level disciplinaries, investigations, grievances and other ER Case as appropriate.
* Co-ordinate exit interviews and ensure all leaver documentation is produced in a timely manner and forwarded to payroll for processing.
* Assist Management in responding to flexible working applications to ensure compliance with legislation and consistency within the establishment
* Coach, support and motivate the HR administration staff in order to develop and enhance individual and team performance and to optimise service delivery.
* Support with the planning, recruitment and selection of front line, administrative staff and junior management to meet the business unit requirements.
* Assist in the updating and implementation of policies and procedures to meet business requirements.
* Provide accurate data and produce management information relating to employees, in order to inform line management of trends and statistics, in accordance with company requirements.
* Support the HR Manager and People BP with ad-hoc projects as required.
* Check and validate the accuracy of make up to gross pay ensuring that Terms and Conditions, pay rules and deadlines are met.
* Provide support and advice to line managers to contribute to partnership working with Trade Unions and staff representative groups and to optimise people related matters and the engagement of employees.
* Participate in the Security Screening process, supplying and clarifying information and advising as necessary to ensure that the security screening process complies with both Youth Custody Service and Company standards.
About you
The ideal candidate for this role will have experience of working within a HR environment and be able to demonstrate the ability to work to tight deadlines, have the ability to prioritise workload and challenge where necessary. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must, as well as working proactively and using your own initiative.
It is key that you are flexible and adaptable to deal with ever-changing scenarios. You will possess strong organisational and communication skills, have experience of working within a fast paced environment in a similar role and will be dedicated to providing a high quality service to both internal and external customers.
More about Us
At G4S, we invest heavily in our people. If you join us you will have a job specific induction programme to equip you with the skills and knowledge for the job. As well as ongoing support and development opportunities we offer generous holiday entitlement, company pension, an onsite gym, free onsite parking and the chance to do an extraordinary job – every day.
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Equality and Diversity is an important part of G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and are a fully inclusive employer who aims to support all employees to be their true selves. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments for either the role or during the recruitment process
G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and adults at risk and each employee is expected to support these goals.
Safeguarding children and young people is our primary focus and the welfare of the child is paramount. Therefore we have a corporate responsibility to ensure that the safeguarding and our G4S values are at the centre of all we do.
To apply for this role, you must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum of 3 years. You will also be required to undergo DBS enhanced level security clearance and will need to provide full details of your work and educational history covering the last 10 years as part of the screening process