HR Apprentice
ACTIVE PATHWAYS LIMITED
Lancashire, PR7 1PS
Closes in 10 days (Sunday 5 January)
Posted on 16 December 2024
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Summary
Are you passionate about starting your career in HR? Do you want to work in a dynamic environment where quality, safety, and passion drive everything we do? As HR Apprentice, you’ll support with HR administration, recruitment, onboarding, and training coordination whilst gaining hands-on HR experience and your Level 3 HR Support Apprenticeship.
- Annual wage
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£18,200 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
The hourly rate for this role is £10ph for the first year, rising to the national minimum wage after 12 months. If a permanent role is secured following completion of the apprenticeship, salaries are based on the Real Living Wage or above.
- Training course
- HR support (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.
1 hour for lunch.
35 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 27 January
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain HR records, databases, and systems to ensure compliance with policies and CQC standards.
Issue offer letters, contracts, and other HR documentation.
Conduct Return to Work interviews and welfare checks as needed. - Support recruitment campaigns, screen candidates, and coordinate interviews.
- Manage new starter documentation, ensuring compliance with company and regulatory requirements.
- Assist with onboarding and induction processes.
- Organise training sessions and maintain training records to ensure compliance with CQC requirements.
- Complete HR audits, produce reports, and support governance processes.
- Attend and minute HR-related meetings, including grievances and disciplinaries.
Where you’ll work
Strawberry Fields Hub
Euxton Lane
Chorley
Lancashire
PR7 1PS
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
TOTAL PEOPLE LIMITED
Your training course
HR support (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
- Service Delivery: Delivers excellent customer service on a range of HR queries and requirements, providing solutions, advice and support primarily to managers. Builds managers’ expertise in HR matters, improving their ability to handle repeated situations themselves where appropriate. Uses agreed systems and processes to deliver service to customers. Takes the initiative to meet agreed individual and team KPIs in line with company policy, values, standards. Plans and organises their work, often without direct supervision, to meet commitments and KPIs.
- Problem Solving: Uses sound questioning and active listening skills to understand requirements and establish root causes before developing HR solutions. Takes ownership through to resolution, escalating complex situations as appropriate.
- Communication & Interpersonal: Deals effectively with customers/colleagues, using sound interpersonal skills and communicating well through a range of media eg phone, face to face, email, internet. Adapts their style to their audience. Builds trust and sound relationships with customers. Handles conflict and sensitive HR situations professionally and confidentially.
- Teamwork: Consistently supports colleagues /collaborates within the team and HR to achieve results. Builds/maintains strong working relationships with others in the team and across HR where necessary.
- Process Improvement: Identifies opportunities to improve HR performance and service; acts on them within the authority of their role. Supports implementation of HR changes/projects with the business.
- Managing HR Information: Maintains required HR records as part of services delivered. Prepares reports and management information from HR data, with interpretation as required.
- Personal Development: Keeps up to date with business changes and HR legal/policy/process changes relevant to their role. Seeks feedback and acts on it to improve their performance and overall capability.
Your training plan
Your HR Support Apprenticeship - Level 3 will be delivered through a blended learning approach, enabling you to integrate learning with work, whilst accessing online learning content and virtual learning sessions. You will also be supported by an existing member of the team who is already registered for this course with the same provider so you will have someone working alongside you to provide support and guidence if your ever unsure.
Entry Requirements: You don’t need academic qualifications to start working in a CIPD role but some employers will want you to have a good standard of education, such as GCSEs, including English and maths.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C / 4)
- Maths (grade C / 4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
Other requirements
With over 20 years of experience operating in Lancashire and Yorkshire, Active Pathways is committed to delivering recovery-focused mental health and rehabilitation services for adults aged 18+. We are proud to foster a people-first culture, guided by our values of Passion, Safety, and Quality, and offer excellent career development opportunities.
About this company
About Active Pathways We provide high-quality mental health rehabilitation and learning disability services across Lancashire, Yorkshire and beyond. Over the past 20 years, we’ve built an outstanding reputation for supporting those with complex and enduring mental health needs and learning disabilities. Our care reaches from in-patient services through to independent community living, collaborating closely with communities and commissioners alike. We don’t compromise when it comes to providing person-centred and continuous care. Close partnerships with Local Authorities, ICBs and Foundation Trusts, enables us to offer a collaborative care pathway. Our expertise spans both health and social care and allows us to support and empower individuals with complex needs. The pathway we create for each individual aims to arm them with hope and trust in their pathway and the people supporting them. The goal is simple, empowering them to make and maintain progress within their own community, develop vital skills and support their journey towards a more meaningful and fulfilling future.
https://www.active-pathways.com/join-the-team/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Free on-site parking Blue Light Card Membership Health Cashback Plan Virtual GP service Discounted gym membership Employee Assistance Program Company Workplace Pension Career development and training Free DBS check
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Following completion of the HR Apprentiship there are a number of established career routes, including progressing into a perminant HR Administrator role, or continuing learning to move into a Learning and Development or broader HR role. The skills gained are also transferrable to other admin and support opportunities.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ACTIVE PATHWAYS LIMITED
Lizi Marsden
jobs@active-pathways.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000292135.
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Closes in 10 days (Sunday 5 January)
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Company’s application instructions
Closing Date - Sunday 3rd January 2025. Assessment Day - Friday 10th January 2025. Start as early as Friday 20th January 2025!