HR Team Leader - Fixed Term Contract

 

Main characteristics

Location

Preston, London

Company

Places for People

Job summary

We are the Places for People Group; we are placemakers; our work impacts on the lives of people across the U.K. providing homes to live in, communities to retire to, spaces to stay active, supported homes for independent living, and student accommodation. Our places work when they work for everyone.
How do we do all this? By surrounding ourselves with customer focussed people, can do people and innovative people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.
So, we want you to join us and the 12,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped us create places, maintain 195,000 homes, manage £4 billion of assets and teach 75,000 children to swim each week.
More about your role
This is a Fixed Term Contract until September 2021
Joining our busy People Services department you will motivate, lead and develop a team of HR Officers and Coordinators. You and your team will provide responsive support to manage the effective administration of the employee lifecycle processes.
You will be responsible for ensuring that HR requests are actioned in a timely and accurate manner against agreed Service Level Agreements. You will also be accountable for the continuous improvement of activities to maximise efficiencies of systems and processes.
Your team will maintain digital employee personnel files, ensuring all data is accurately recorded, stored and maintained within current systems in a timely manner. In addition, you will personally develop and maintain professional and proactive relationships with key stakeholders to support the delivery of a timely service.
Please download the attached Job Description for a full list of duties.
More about you
You will need strong HR generalist experience and be used to working for a large business with conflicting demands on your time and your resources, experience of working within a HR Shared Service is highly desirable for this role.
To be successful in this role you will have strong team leadership skills, you will be able to efficiently lead, motivate, engage and develop a team of HR Officers, ensuring the team provides a high class HR Administration service to all Group companies.
Ideally you will be Level 5 CIPD qualified and will by system savvy, with past experience of working with and developing HR Systems.
The benefits
Our ambition gives you all the challenge you could wish for and that's why we can offer you tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse and pioneering business.
Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier; from a pension, generous holiday pay, training, sick pay, and free or discounted gym membership to a wealth of extra perks including interest-free loans for colleagues, discounts and offers on thousands of retailers, restaurants and leisure outlets and much more.