HR Officer/Advisor
Salary: Highly competitive, dependent on experience and skills + Benefits.
Hours: Part-time, permanent (3 days/21 hours per week,).
Based at Ampleforth Abbey YO62 - (based on site with opportunity to work hybrid).
Closing date: 3rd October 2025
Benefits
* Up to 8% employer-matched pension
* Life assurance
* Free lunch during working hours
* Free on-site parking
* 20% discount at the Abbey Shop
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* Christmas Closure
About Ampleforth Abbey
Ampleforth Abbey is home to the UK’s largest Benedictine monastic community, rooted in the Rule of St Benedict. Our mission is to seek God through prayer and service, and to invite others to experience faith in action.
Located in the Howardian Hills near York, the Abbey sits within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and welcomes thousands of visitors each year to its Retreat Centre, Visitor Centre, Shop and Tea Room.
Ampleforth Abbey Trust, a registered charity, works alongside the monastic community to support this mission. With around 60 lay staff, the Trust delivers on a five-year strategy, choosing a Future Together, to ensure a sustainable, faith-led future for the Abbey and its valley home.
The HR Officer is responsible for overseeing the HR service for Ampleforth Abbey Trust and maintaining (and joining) the warm collaborative work environment we have within the Trust.
Collaboration will be your cornerstone for delivering a HR service to the Trust. The requirement to adapt to a varied workload is key to the role as it requires the ability to transition between generalist HR support, recruitment, strategic initiatives, and much more.
Main Responsibilities (but not limited to):
* Ensure a professional, fair, and consistent approach to the HR function required by the Trust.
* Ensure the organisation’s policies and procedures are adhered to, to minimise risk and thus promoting a positive culture within the Trust, and that they are reviewed and updated annually/as required.
* Working with and in some instances coaching Line Managers to provide support/guidance/advice on how to manage HR issues within their areas and ensuring you produce all documentation accurately to support the process.
* Embed best practice whilst ensuring that advice and documentation produced by you is compliant with relevant Trust policies and the ACAS Codes of Practice.
* Maintain proactive relationships with line managers to support the overall delivery of the HR service.
* Maintaining the HR Systems and documentation in use within the Trust, ensuring that they are up to date with all employee and HR information.
* Collating, analysing, and reporting on data to identify trends and providing pro-active resolutions to any improvements required.
* Establishing and maintaining relationships with external suppliers who provide HR materials or services.
* Stay current with industry trends and best practices in HR.
* Support the recruitment processes and provide support and documentation to recruiting managers as and when requested, in an accurate and timely manner.
* Able to produce the required HR documentation e.g. offers of employment, HR related letters, when required and within the agreed timeframes.
* Promote and support the wellbeing of both self and staff through maintenance of healthy work/life balance, taking care to manage energy levels of self and others and taking recovery after peak periods of workload activity.
Skills and Attributes
* Proven experience as a HR Generalist or similar role.
* Proven record of creating, issuing, and ensuring documentation is produced and records are all accurately up to date.
* Knowledge of / aptitude for HR methodologies, strategies, and techniques for the future as the role grows.
* CIPD qualifications (ideally level 3) or a willingness to undertake this.
Ampleforth Abbey Trust is committed to the highest standards of safeguarding. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
Interested in this HR Officer/Advisor role? If you feel that you possess the relevant skills and experience, then please send your CV
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