People Apprentice

Summary

Are you a people person with a passion for knowing what makes great teams tick? Are you ready to kickstart your career and get stuck in to all things HR? If so, this could be the role for you, playing a key role in supporting the our people function. No HR experience needed, we're looking for the right person who's eager to learn and get stuck in!

Annual wage: £20,500 a year
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Training course: HR support (level 3)
Hours: Monday to Friday. Core hours 10.00am - 3.00pm (standard hours 8.30am to 5.00pm).
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 18 November
Duration: 1 Year 4 Months
Positions available: 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

Input data, create letters/contracts, pull reports and maintain our People System (HiBob).
Be a point of contact for our employees, responding to People queries in a timely manner and monitoring the People inbox.
Support the People team with reviewing current processes and implementing ideas to improve our HR function
Support the People Team with the administrative recruitment tasks, including working with hiring managers to understand their recruitment needs, shortlisting candidates, carrying out telephone interviews etc.
Being a point of contact for new starters and making sure their line manager has reached out to them prior to joining.
Ensure new starters are set up correctly and enrolled onto the necessary systems/platforms.
Assist in organising training courses and initiatives to help grow our team.
Managing our learning systems to make sure our teams are completing all of their necessary training on time.
Get involved in exciting HR projects that shape the future of our company, from wellbeing initiatives to DE&I efforts.

Where you’ll work

Building 1230 (Second Floor)

Arlington Business Park

Theale

Berkshire

RG7 4SA

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

BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 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

Structure and commitment

Module delivery:

Blend of face-to-face and online live
Four modules delivered weekly via online live lectures (two or three hours per week) and optional face-to-face professional workshops

Coaching:

Online Performance Coaches to push you further, with six-weekly sessions to review your progress, give constructive feedback, support your studies and identify new challenges and opportunities (one hour).

Guided self-study:

Online on-demand
On-demand study through the Virtual Learning Platform, with 24/7 access to your full course (four hours per week)
Work based projects
Show day-one impact by completing workplace projects with new skills and knowledge that also count towards your portfolio of evidence for the End Point Assessment (EPA).

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (grade 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
Problem solving skills
Administrative skills
Team working
Creative
Non judgemental
Patience

About this company

Concurrent deliver mission-critical embedded computing solutions to operate in even the harshest of environments. Founded in 1985 to develop Multibus II boards, we’ve expanded our offering over four decades to become a trusted, reliable solutions provider in critical embedded applications. We have a proven record of delivering technology to the world’s leading OEMs across industries including defence, telecoms, and aerospace. We operate facilities in Colchester and Theale in the United Kingdom and Woburn, MA and Los Angeles, CA in the United States. Concurrent is a public company, quoted on AIM on the London Stock Exchange.

https://concurrent.tech/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Once this apprenticeship is complete, there will be potential to evolve into a generalist People Coordinator and continue to grow with a Level 5 CIPD qualification.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CONCURRENT TECHNOLOGIES PLC

Olivia Radford

people@cct.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000280630.

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Closes in 13 days (Friday 18 October at 11:59pm)

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