Recruitment & Payroll Officer

About the role

RECRUITMENT & PAYROLL OFFICER

Contract: Fixed term contract, 12 months, maternity leave cover

Hours: 37hrs per week, 52 weeks per year. Flexible working patterns will be considered but will need to balance operational support requirements.

Salary: FTE £32,000 - £38,000 per annum, plus a range of benefits. (Pro-rata to working hours)

 Location: Hybrid working, consisting of remote working with the flexibility to work typically up to 2 days per week at our offices in Stevenage, Hertfordshire or in nearby locations.

Do you have experience delivering recruitment or payroll services in a varied and busy role?

Are you highly organised and able to manage multiple priorities effectively?

Would you like to join a collaborative team that supports colleagues and contributes to improving outcomes for children & young people?

We are looking for a professional and adaptable individual who enjoys delivering a high-quality service. With a keen eye for detail and a proactive approach, you will be able to manage a varied workload, prioritise effectively and maintain accuracy when working to deadlines. We welcome applications from individuals with experience in either payroll or recruitment who are keen to broaden their skills in a wide-ranging and rewarding role. You’ll enjoy collaborating with colleagues and managers across the orgnisation, building positive working relationships, handling confidential information with professionalism and discretion and taking ownership of your work to ensure an efficient, accurate and high-quality service.

Our ‘working from anywhere’ approach provides colleagues the opportunity to work flexibly in line with their role requirements. This consists of remote working and up to 2 days per week in our Head Office in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. As there is a permanent home working element to this role, you will need to ensure you are equipped for home working.

Benefits: a generous employer pension contribution, 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 31 days after five-years) or the equivalent paid for Term Time employees, family-friendly policies, hybrid working, paid mileage, a cycle to work scheme, access to mental health and wellbeing support, professional development opportunities, benefit schemes for discounts and cashback offers, and more.

Would you like to know more information about this opportunity? If so, further information can be found in the job outline. You can also contact Shelley Chappell, Remuneration & Benefits Manager, who would be happy to chat to you via [email protected]

To apply, email [email protected] with an up-to-date CV along with a cover letter to include responses to the following:

• Please tell us about your experience in payroll and/or recruitment (including any experience using HRIS or payroll systems) and how this has prepared you for this role?

• Why you are interested in becoming part of the HFL team.

As part of our move towards eradicating unconscious bias within the recruitment process, we will be anonymising your forms.

For recruitment queries, our Central Recruitment Team can also be contacted on the hfl.recruitment email address above. We would love to hear from you.

Please note: the job advert may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. To make sure you don’t miss out on this great opportunity, please submit your application as soon as you can.  

Interview Date: To be confirmed

We are committed towards becoming an anti-racist organisation, and our recruitment statement is set out below in support of this.

HFL is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We insist on the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues and will never condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

HFL is also equally committed to becoming an anti-racist organisation and we encourage you to view our Anti-racist position statement which gives clarity on our anti-racist stance. In our relentless efforts to be an anti-racist organisation, we recognise the negative impacts of under representation and lack of diversity in our organisation, our education system and in all aspects of our society. Therefore, for recruitment into any HFL post, where we have 2 or more candidates of equal merit, candidates with protected characteristics will be given advantage over candidates without such characteristics. This is sometimes referred to as a ‘tie-breaker’ and is referred to as ‘positive action’ in the Equality Act 2010.

To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.

Please note that if you are invited to interview, we will expect you to be prepared to discuss unconscious bias with us; we find these conversations more than any others give us all a good idea of what working together will be like.