HR Advisor

Looking to grow and strengthen your existing HR skills

Mission

We are a leading healthcare tech company, looking for an experienced HR Advisor or Business Partner on a 12 month fixed term contract basis. Working within our UK based HR team of 3 you will play a crucial role in supporting our HR department, ensuring the seamless delivery of HR services across a number of group companies. It’s a varied role which will see you involved in all aspects of HR, allowing you to further develop your existing skills and experience. You’ll be involved in everything from on-boarding to off-boarding, employee relations, performance management, policies, procedures and best practice, as well as reports and internal communications. Hybrid working (2-3 days in office). Located right next to Buckshaw Parkway train station Chorley

What’s involved?

Provide comprehensive HR support across all areas, including employee relations, performance management, and HR administration. Handle employee queries and provide guidance on HR policies, procedures, and best practices. Maintain up-to-date and accurate employee records and ensure compliance with data protection regulations. Prepare HR reports and analyse HR metrics to identify trends and areas for improvement. Assist in the development and implementation of HR initiatives and programs. Create and distribute internal communications, including wellbeing newsletters, HR updates, company news, and relevant information. Undertake HR administration processes, including drafting offer letters, employment contracts, and other HR-related documentation accurately and efficiently. Coordinate the onboarding process for new employees, including conducting background checks, collecting new hire paperwork, and facilitating Induction sessions. Support with offboarding processes, including conducting exit interviews and processing termination paperwork.

Profile

What are we looking for?  Someone with a friendly and outgoing personality and a great work ethic. Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and manage multiple cases simultaneously.

Experience as a HR Advisor, with a strong understanding of generalist HR functions. Proven experience in supporting and advising in disciplinary processes, grievances, and absence management and the ability to conduct thorough investigations and analyse evidence objectively. Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to manipulate data, create spreadsheets, and generate reports; proficiency in Microsoft Word using features such as mail merge is essential. Experienced using HR software, People HR desirable. Demonstrated ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders. Knowledge of employment law and regulations. CIPD Level 5 and Mental Health First Aider Certificate are desirable but not essential.

What will you get in return?

The chance to work with an experienced HR team across multiple UK businesses The opportunity to broaden and strengthen your skills and experience 35 hour week A range of great benefits Hybrid working (2-3 days per week in the office)

Skills

human resources HR

Office Location and Useful info

We’re based in an open plan, purpose built office with parking on a business estate just on the outskirts of Leyland. We have the whole building, spread over two floors with a mostly open plan working environment. There’s lots of windows and natural light, it’s a calm, pleasant and friendly workplace, with a great canteen/break out space along with some outside space for those brighter dry days to eat outside or head for a walk. Leyland is famous as once being the home of one of the largest vehicle manufacturers in the UK; British Leyland – probably best known for their trucks and buses. There are several retail parks and leisure centres, the town centre also has a thriving market along with a mix of independent and well known chain stores. Leyland has great access to road links to Preston, Blackpool and Chorley, as well as the M6 and M58 if heading to Manchester, Liverpool or north towards Lancaster and The Lakes. Life at Cegedim Healthcare Solutions: We are passionate about technology and take great pride in producing innovative IT solutions that have a direct and positive impact on the UK health sector.We’re also a friendly, professional, highly skilled, hard-working and sociable team We hold regular work and social events, online and in person, to keep our teams up to date with what’s going on across our group, as well as variouscharity, sports or other interests/hobby related activities for those who wish to take part. We introduced innovation days; a day per month for every employee to invest in developing ideas and supporting new innovations – whether it’s focusing on a particular project, gaining insight into a different area of the business or getting together with colleagues to brainstorm, sharing knowledge, expertise and looking at new ideas and innovations to benefit our customers, our teams and our business. If you're working in one of our offices there are various break out and/or kitchen areas - and outside/green space areas at or near to the offices - allowing you to have some time away from desk; go for a stroll, take some exercise, eat your lunch, catch up with colleagues, read, listen to music, play computer games, so you have somewhere to relax, refresh and reboot. We have a casual dress code.

Words from our recruitment team

Hello, I'm Paul - my team and I manage the Internal Recruitment function for the Cegedim businesses across the UK. I'm always happy to hear from you, whether you are applying for a specific vacancy, want to know about upcoming opportunities or just want to have a chat about working here. You can contact me at

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