HR Assistant (Apprentice)

About the Role

Are you organised, people-focused and ready to take your first step into Human Resources? Our HR Assistant Apprentice role offers hands-on experience, professional training and a clear pathway into a rewarding HR career. As a HR Apprentice, you will support recruitment, onboarding, payroll and wellbeing processes while studying for a funded HR qualification. This is not just an admin role – it is a true development opportunity with real responsibility and support.

30 hours per week / 52 weeks per year

What You’ll Gain

• A fully funded HR apprenticeship qualification
• Real-world HR experience and mentoring
• A strong foundation for future HR roles

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for

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Onboarding & Compliance

• Coordinate and manage the complete onboarding process for new starters, including reference checks, DBS checks, Right to Work checks, and overseas checks.
• Ensure accurate compliance with Single Central Record requirements.
• Manage the online DBS portal and provide support to candidates.

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New Starter Experience

• Ensure a positive and seamless new starter journey, including pre-employment meetings and one-month check-in meetings.
• Issue contracts and offer letters within statutory timeframes, calculating prorated salaries and leave entitlements.
• Take an active role in interview panels and supporting recruiting managers

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Payroll Administration

• Process payroll changes and generate accurate HR administration paperwork, adhering to payroll cut-off dates.
• Record new starters on the HR/Payroll system and process starter pension notifications.

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Employee Relations

• Provide administrative support to Business Partners in employee relations cases, including preparing packs and taking minutes.
• Organise and monitor the exit interview process and ensure efficient completion of leaver processes.

Requirements

• A high standard of administrative skill with a keen eye for detail and a high level of accuracy
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with staff at all levels and build effective relationships.
• Competent in using Microsoft Office packages, e.g. Word, Excel
• Professional and customer focused approach including absolute discretion, confidentiality, diplomacy and sensitivity.

How to apply

We strive in offering an inclusive and accessible recruitment and interview process to all candidates. Should you have any questions at all, or require any support with reasonable adjustments, please contact recruitment@hsdc.ac.uk and a member of our team will respond as soon as possible.

For more information on the position itself, please connect with Rob at rob.mooney@hsdc.ac.uk for any queries. Please note, we appreciate the value of each applicant but kindly ask that you complete an application form as we do not accept CV’s.

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Disability Confident

About Disability Confident

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.