*Please only apply if you are uploading a CV and Cover Letter outlining how you are a fit for this post*

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Deadline to apply: 15th August 2025

Responsibilities:

General

• Support a positive employee experience across the full employee cycle with RISE

• Manage end-to-end recruitment and onboarding process, ensuring all areas are met and updated regularly e.g. DBS review cycle.

• Advise staff and managers on the employee benefits and entitlements

• Act as first point of contact for employee relation issues.

• Support managers with day-to-day HR processes, advising managers on HR policies and procedures and best practice.

• Responsible for HR administrative processes e.g. HR Portal, HR letters and functions.

• Maintain employee personal folders

• Advise on staff and Directors on pensions, salary reviews, redundancy and employment law.

• Liaise with payroll to ensure payroll information is relayed back accurately

• Support and participate in Performance Reviews and improvement measures

Strategy & Planning

• Provide guidance on employee engagement, well-being and inclusion initiatives.

• Promote and embed RISE’s Mutual culture and employee ownership principles.

• Ensure HR practices align with organisational values and comply with legal requirements.

• Contribute to the development of a performance-led, value-driven organisational culture.

Contract & Account Management

• Monitor staffing levels and workforce planning across all contracts and projects

• Identify resource gaps and provide recommendations to the senior leadership team.

Employee Relations & Compliance

• Oversee end-to end employee relation cases, including absence management, disciplinaries, and supporting with the related investigations and record keeping.

• Ensure accurate record keeping and timely resolution of cases.

• Prepare and deliver regular HR reports to leadership (e.g. recruitment, retention, ER case summaries, training uptake)

• Provide regular reports to leadership on recruitment and retention, employee relation cases etc.

• Maintain compliance with employment legislation and internal policies.

Essentials:

Experience

• At least 3 years of professional experience in a Human Resources function; including significant involvement in employee relations.

• Degree in HR, Business Administration or a related field

• Strong Knowledge of Employment Law and HR best practices.

• Proficiency in HR information systems

• Experience in full cycle recruitment and working across multiple hiring levels

Skills and Behaviour

• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills; able to build trust at all levels
• Strong decision-making skills and problem solving abilities
• Highly organised, with attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Naturally driven and self-motivated
• Self-motivated
• Solution focused, pro-active approach to problem solving
• Establish effective and productive relationships across the organisation.
• Demonstrate critical attention to detail and ability to cope with changing priorities.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Demonstrates a commitment to equality, equity, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of HR practice.

Knowledge

• Sound knowledge of HR processes across the employee lifecycle.
• Creative Ideas for developing RISE’s brand and ability to quickly learn product knowledge.

Benefits of working at RISE:

• Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024 company that celebrates diversity, culture and individual differences, and that will help you to grow and thrive in your career.
• Employee Council gives employees a way to channel their voice to improve their experience.
• Everyone can have their birthday off work, on top of their 27 day’s annual leave entitlement.