JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Human Resources (HR) Officer

Reports To: CEO

Contract Type: Permanent, part time, 52 week contract

Working Hours: To be agreed. Largely anticipated to be a hybrid role working mostly from home

Salary: Commensurate with experience

CONTEXT: The Toby Henderson Trust is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee who provide a range of support services to children, young people and adults with autism or a suspected diagnosis of autism. We also offer private autism assessments for children, young people and adults and are commissioned by ICBs in a number of North East localities and the Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW) to undertake such.

We are a people-focused charity, built on the ethos of providing understanding, empathy and guidance. We extend this same ethos to our work colleagues and as part of your role you need to embody these skills and behaviours and model them for other colleagues. We encourage empathy, strong communication, teamwork and adaptability in everything we do.

Job Purpose:

To lead on the delivery of a comprehensive HR service across the organisation, supporting the full employee life cycle, ensuring legal compliance and facilitating a positive, well supported and effective workplace environment.

Job Description Responsibilities and Duties

Oversight of HR best practice and employment law, ensuring compliance with GDPR and employment legislation.

• Taking the Lead for employee relations matters including disciplinaries, grievances, absence, capability and conflict resolution.

• Develop and review all HR policies and procedures aligned to legal requirements and the values and ethos of TTHT

• Provide HR advice to Leadership on all areas of the employee life cycle.

• Management of all employee relations issues including investigation, consultation and disciplinary action (where necessary) as per company procedures.

• Support recruitment, onboarding, induction, probation and performance processes.

Work proactively with Leadership in respect of wellbeing, flexible working and occupational health referrals.

• Processing of DBS and renewal of checks.

• Liaise with finance/payroll to ensure accurate process of payroll and expenses.

• Managing and updating confidential personnel files.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Education:

Educated to degree level (no specific discipline) or equivalent in-depth experience of working within an HR/Personnel role.

Essential experience:

Sound knowledge of the HR framework covering all aspects of the employment life cycle.

• Exceptionally high standards of confidentiality and diplomacy.

• Experience of payroll preparation and liaison with Accountants as external payroll providers.

• Experience of playing an active role in investigations regarding capability and grievance.

Experience of working closely with Line Mangers and Leadership to support the wellbeing and Occupational Health/physical needs of workforce.

• Unwavering discretion

• Experience of identifying and actioning reasonable adjustments

Desirable experience:

• HR Diploma standard of education

• Experience of encouraging and nurturing employee engagement

• Increasing employee engagement and development of additional benefits

• Rolling out mental health initiatives

Other Requirements:

Full, clean driving licence.