Job Title: Apprentice HR Administrator

Location: Dartmouth House, 70-72 Handsworth Wood Road, Birmingham, B20 2DT

Salary: Apprentice rate starts from £6.40 per hour

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday – Friday)

Duration: 16 Months

Additional Benefits: Funding for a Bus Pass

Job Type: Apprenticeship

Qualification: HR Support Level 3 Apprenticeship

Options for Care provides mental health recovery services in Birmingham and the West Midlands. The organisation delivers these services through two inpatient hospital units, one community recovery home one high dependency unit. The organisational goal is to support service users to realise their potential with improvement and developments in quality of life, leading to a gradual progression through the recovery pathway to eventual discharge.

Mission

• Realising Potential

Vision

• “We offer best practice interventions to enable personal recovery and wellbeing.”

Values

• “The individual is at the heart of everything we do.”
• “We inspire, stimulate and empower people to achieve and grow through compassionate, supportive and protective relationships.”
• “We deliver and continuously evaluate high quality service whilst respecting difference, promoting dignity and supporting the privacy of others.”

We have an exciting opportunity for an Apprentice HR Administrator, to join a small dynamic HR team. You will support the HR Business Partner and the HR Assistant in providing a comprehensive HR service. The varied duties will include and are not limited to:

Your duties will include:

• Preparing and handling all recruitment administration: preparing documentation, placing advertisements, organising interviews
• You will further assist with preparing offer letters, requesting references and sending out the required new starter paperwork.
• Processing clearances for successful candidates, including DBS checks
• Recording and updating employee details on the HR system for new starters, mid employment and leavers.
• Assist with HR Project work.
• Taking minutes in ER meetings
• Accurately managing HR administration from new starters, mid employment and leavers.
• Preparing staff files.

You will possess relevant admin experience, with an understanding of diary management, employee onboarding and lifecycle experience. You will have good IT skills, in particular Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point) and be confident, tactful and approachable.  

You will also be a flexible and friendly member of a small team that works together to achieve their goals. If you are highly organised, efficient, passionate about HR and keen to develop and progress with your career, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Alongside the HR department, you will also provide administrative support to the Operations Director.

You will have good IT skills, in particular Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point) and will be confident in handling sensitive and personal information. You will have good communication skills and a genuine passion and enthusiasm for working in HR.

You will also be a flexible and friendly member of a small team that works together to achieve their goals. If you are an organised, efficient individual that is keen to start your career in HR, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Candidates who already have a degree in Human Resources or have already gained a CIPD qualification need not apply.

If you are interested in applying for the role, please email hr@optionsforcare.net with your up to date CV.

**This vacancy will be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment**