HR and Payroll Co-ordinator

**Location**:
Station Farm, London Road, Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire

Hours:
Full time

Practice:
Dick White Referrals

**Salary**:
£28,000-£32,000, per annum, D.O.E.

**JOB TITLE: HR & PAYROLL CO-ORDINATOR**:
**Full time, 40 hours per week Monday-Friday.**

**Practice Profile**:
Based on the outskirts of Cambridge, The Dick White Referral Centre (DWR) is one of the worlds leading centres. DWR is currently going through an exciting transition and growth into a new purpose-built centre along with leading developments in open heart surgery, neurology, orthopaedics, oncology along with a number of other fields.

The individual values of DWR are Excellence, Trust and Care of which the centre strives to achieve everyday for our customers, Associates and the overall business.

**OVERVIEW**

As an experienced HR & Payroll Co-ordinator working alongside the HR Manager you will be responsible for providing the day-to-day operational HR support for the hospital and assisting with payroll. You will be expected to have a passion for delivering the best possible service and support for the associates. You will have excellent communication skills, ensuring collaborative and effective working relationships between teams, leadership, and other group associates. You will proactively seek and share best practice across the hospital.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Input all team rotas accurately on to our holiday system.
- Manage maternity/paternity and family leave policy implementation across the site.
- Manage the induction process and ensure we are delivering all the information a new starter would require.
- Perform exit interviews with employees leaving DWR giving feedback to the SHRBP and Leadership team.
- Maintain employee personnel files and records, ensuring they are retained as per legal and Group requirements.
- Promote the employee benefit options and process requests as necessary.
- Monitor sickness and holiday to ensure the process is being followed correctly and logged accurately.
- Ensure return to work meetings are held after sickness/absences from work and actions are logged and completed.
- Attend hearings / meetings to note take when required.
- Maintain and monitor staff training records, liaising with line managers as necessary.
- Ensure that there is effective support for colleagues experiencing ill health and that when appropriate services such as the EAP and occupational health are utilised.
- Ensure oversight and management of those colleagues taking regular and/or on LT sickness absence. Support LMs to implement the absence policy as and when appropriate.
- Ensure oversight of visas, RTW documentation and support for LMs and colleagues regarding the same.
- Assist with the running of payroll alongside the Finance Manager

**KEY PEOPLE REQUIREMENTS**:

- You will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal to deliver clear and concise messages to the hospital teams.
- You will be able to take the initiative and be comfortable in working with a degree of ambiguity.
- A knowledge of 365 and Microsoft teams as well as a strong understanding on how to use Excel.
- Work effectively to role model change and the DWR behaviours of Excellence, Trust and Care.
- Strong personal integrity and confidentiality is essential to the role
- Attention to detail and excellent time management.

Demonstrates a strong commitment to team working with the ability to motivate teams, develop and maintain productive working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

A positive ‘can do’ attitude, resilience and adaptability in all work areas

Ability to make informed and balanced decisions under pressure

Analytical skills - interpret & present numerous forms of data.

Experience of change and managing the internal process to support associates through a transformation programme. Experience of leading or working collaboratively with a team to build strong relationships.

**Company Profile**:
The Linnaeus Group is a vibrant, forward-thinking partnership of highly respected veterinary practices across the UK, comprising some of the best clinicians in the profession.

**Our Vision is**: ‘To be recognised as the UK’s leading veterinary group, committed to excellence in all that we do, delivered through high quality practices who share a common ethos’.

**Our Values are**: Leadership with Integrity | Learning & Innovation | Lifetime Commitment to Quality Care

**Part of an amazing global family**

Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best - caring for pets. We are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team. Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.

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