Trainee HR Officer

We are recruiting for the role of **Trainee HR Officer** in our Operational HR team**.**

There is likely to be some level of travel with this role and we’d be happy to discuss this with you to give you an idea of frequency and likely locations. You will ideally be based within **the Midlands**.

We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures. We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us.

**Let us tell you a bit more about the role**

As a **Trainee HR Officer**, you will contribute to a busy, inclusive **HR Operations team**. The team plays an important role in partnering with managers across the organisation to deliver outstanding frontline HR services, which in turn helps achieve the best possible outcomes for children.

In turn, you will gain invaluable practical insight and experience spanning the employee life cycle within a talented team that will give you a platform to develop professionally.

In terms of what you can expect to be doing in this role, this is likely to include:

- Under the direction and supervision of a HR Manager and/or HR Business Partner / Officer, you will be responsible for supporting the provision of a high quality, proactive HR service to frontline management teams and corporate services, across a full range of activities.
- To maintain the HR database and to analyse the data to produce reports as and when required.
- To support the local HRBP / HRO with collation, analysis and presentation of HR Management Information, to assist with the strategic workforce planning activity.
- Undertaking specific strands of project work as directed, including research activities, gathering, analysing and presenting information, liaison and negotiation with internal and external stakeholders and arranging meetings and briefings. Presenting findings in a confident and professional manner.

**and what we’re looking for.**
- You will have a degree level qualification (or equivalent) and/or CIPD professional qualification (or working towards one).
- Practical experience of working in a HR environment undertaking across a broad range of HR activities, potentially as a HR Administrator or Assistant or similar.
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral) that enable you to have effective working relationships with a broad range of internal stakeholders.
- Demonstrate you are able to use HR data to identify trends to make recommendations
- A clear commitment to developing your career within HR.
- Experience of managing and prioritising your workload, working with mínimal instruction and achieving targets within required timescales.
- Demonstrate personal resilience and organisational skills to manage yourself and others

You can find out more before you apply, we also recommend you read the job description.

**Next steps / timelines**

Prior to being invited for a panel interview, if you meet our essential criteria we would invite you to participate in a work-based assessment to further help us determine your suitability.

Closing date:
14th April 2024

Telephone Inrerview:
- Concluding W/C 15th AprilAssessment:
W/C 22nd April

Final Interview:

- W/C 29th AprilWe understand you may benefit from finding out more to help you decide to apply. There is a lot of information available at **Cafcass Careers** but if there is something else you need to find out more about, you can either contact **Priya Kadara** from our HR Resourcing team if your query is to do with the recruitment process or is HR-related, or HR Manager **Kathryn Alston** if your questions relate more to the role, providing your contact information and best times / methods to get hold of you.

We look forward to hearing from you.

We are Cafcass - the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service - and we represent children in family court cases in England.

Independently advising the family courts about what is safe for children and in their best interests, we speak up for over 140,0000 children every year when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures, ensuring their needs, wishes and feelings are heard. In short, our role is to