The Role: What you will do?
Due to continued growth within our healthcare business, we have an exciting opportunity for a part-time generalist HR Administrator to join our friendly and established team on a 6 month fixed term contract.
This is a fast-paced, high performing role, with opportunities for development. You will play a key part in providing effective and responsive HR administrative support to all areas of the business, with assistance from your colleagues and the wider HR team. You should be willing to go the extra mile to provide an outstanding service to our employees.
Above all you should get pleasure out of working hard to make things happen and enjoy interacting with people at all levels across the business.
What you’ll do:
- Provide administrative support to the HR department
- Manage an extremely busy HR Inbox, dealing with all HR enquiries and queries
- To assist with employee administration; including starters and leavers pre-employment vetting checks, references, preparing documents and ensuring all information is completed accurately, efficiently and effectively.
- Administer HR related documentation including preparation of letters and updating and maintaining files
- Accurately update and maintain HR information databases
- Assist in the administration of obtaining security clearances and DBS applications to ensure that the Company complies with its contractual obligations with the agreed timelines.
- Acting as front line for queries on general HR matters including holiday, sickness and HR policies
- Any other general HR administrative duties as required
Your skills and background:
Essential:
- Minimum 2 years of previous administrative experience
- GCSE English or equivalent
- Work well under pressure
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Manage workload effectively under tight deadlines and deal with multiple requests
- Excellent organisational ability with keen attention to detail
- Excellent communication and IT skills
- Experience using Microsoft Applications, specifically Excel, Outlook and Word
- Awareness of Data Privacy and GDPR
- An awareness of and commitment to supporting and facilitating diversity and inclusion
Desirable:
- CIPD Level 3
- HR Admin experience
- Experience of using HR systems
- Understanding of Employment Law
Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do. Now part of Spire Healthcare Group plc we have been providing physical and mental health services for over 30 years. We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UK’s largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.
To achieve our mission of Making People Better, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. We are an award-winning employer recently recognised nationally as “Best Company to Work for” at the Health and Wellbeing Awards 2024.
This is also recognised by current employees – our most recent Employee Survey results showed the top 5 reasons to work here as being:
- Supportive team and management
- Positive work environment
- Wellbeing and mental health support
- Trust and respect
- Autonomy and flexibility
We are keen to progress your skills and enable career development and provide regular Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme, apprenticeships and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work life balance and a comprehensive benefits package which you can view here: https://www.vitahealthgroup.co.uk/join-us/careers/
Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and is seeking to improve the diversity of its workforce. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity. For further information on our EDI commitments please view here: Vita Health Groups commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to being equitable and supporting the wellbeing of all employees.
- We are a Mindful Employer
- Our status as a Disability Confident Leader dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be invited to interview.
- Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme where all applicants for senior roles (£40,000+) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be invited for interview.
- Our Gender Matters Scheme where all women applicants for senior roles (£60,000+) that meet the essential criteria will be invited to interview.
- Our sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant.
- Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
- Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
- Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
- Access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues including Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
- An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.
- Treating transgender individuals with dignity and recognising the potential complications that may arise when taking references. We encourage applicants to contact HR at hr@vhg.co.uk to discuss or amend how we manage reference requests.
Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you need in the application or interview process please contact recruitment@vhg.co.uk and we will facilitate.
Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check.
Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months.
Vita Health Group reserves the right to close this job when sufficient applications have been received.
