Human Resources Assistant

Job description
Human Resources Assistant
Job description

Mae’r ddogfen hon ar gael yn Gymraeg / This document is also available in Welsh.

Human Resources Assistant – Employee Relations

Ty Elai, Williamstown / Hybrid

A number of permanent and temporary opportunities have arisen working on the Education and Schools HR Team. You would be providing a HR service to some of the primary and secondary schools within Rhondda Cynon Taf and a number of central educational support services including Access and Inclusion, Catering Services, Central South Consortium, Attendance and Wellbeing Services and Transformation, Admissions and Governance.

You will support and provide advice and guidance to an allocation of Schools and Service Areas in matters including recruitment and selection, conditions of service queries, management of sickness absence cases including undertaking welfare visits, assisting with discipline / grievance minute taking and processing maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave.

Your role will be to be the first point of contact for these services, taking operational Human Resources queries and providing a timely appropriate response in line with HR policies and procedures, therefore being able to communicate clearly and concisely, being highly organised and working under pressure to deadlines is essential.

You will require strong IT and organisational skills as you will be responsible for processing human resource and payroll information via the iTrent system.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

For further information about the post please contact Joanna Croad /Nicola Tilling / Nicole Johnston / Paul Hughes on (01443) 44454+ / 444536 / 444521 / 444554.

Protecting children and vulnerable adults is a core responsibility of all staff appointed to the Council.

In addition to this safeguarding responsibility, the successful applicant for this role will also be subject to an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

The Council values diversity in its workforce. We are committed to ensuring that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, sex, race, disability, ****** orientation, transgender, including those with non-binary identities, religion or belief or pregnancy and maternity. We offer a number of staff networks for employees including the Allies Network, a Disability and Carers Network and Perthyn our LGBTQ+ Network.

An application submitted for this post in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

As part of the Council’s longer term objectives in relation to the Welsh language and its Workforce Planning Strategy, it is committed to a guaranteed interview scheme for Welsh-speakers of Level 3 and above. If you meet the essential criteria as identified in the person specification for the job and are a Welsh-speaker of Level 3 and above, you will be invited to interview if you choose to participate in the scheme.

In view of the large number of Application Forms which are currently being submitted individual applications are not acknowledged. Consequently if you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application is unsuccessful on this occasion. In which case you are thanked for the interest you have shown in applying for a position within the Council.

In support of the Council’s voluntary pledge to support the Armed Forces, the recruiter must always be prepared to ensure that applicants who have identified themselves as members of the Armed Forces including Service Leavers, Veterans or Reservists and who meet the essential criteria of the person specification, are offered an interview.
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