Human Resources Assistant

Youll be the organisational backbone of the HR team, keeping daily activity running smoothly and ensuring staff receive timely, professional support. Your work will centre on coordinating meetings, preparing documents, managing enquiries and keeping information flowing accurately across the service. Youll be trusted to handle sensitive matters, support recruitment activity, maintain orderly records and keep colleagues informed and prepared.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys variety: one moment you may be arranging a hearing or preparing minutes, the next youre helping staff with routine queries or ensuring paperwork is completed correctly. Youll work closely with the Hospital Director and HR colleagues, becoming a reliable point of contact and a calm, organised presence in a busy environment.

If you like being at the heart of operations, solving problems, and keeping everything running efficiently, this role will suit you well.

Ashness House Parttime 20 hours per week

Purpose of the role

The HR assistant provides efficient confidential and high quality administrative support to the HR function at Ashness house. The role ensures smooth day to day operations and reliable support across employee relations recruitment and general HR processes.

Role overview

You will organise and minute meetings manage routine HR administration handle sensitive information and act as a first point of contact for staff and external enquiries. The role requires professionalism flexibility and the ability to work independently in a busy environment. The hr assistant will organise and minute meetings and act as a first point of contact for internal and external enquiries.

Provide confidential administrative support to the hospital director and HR team including organising meetings hearings and staff related events.

Prepare agendas distribute papers and take accurate minutes for employee relations meetings ensuring actions are followed up.

Manage day to day HR queries resolving routine issues independently and escalating where appropriate.

Handle sensitive and sometimes complex information professionally both verbally and in writing.

Organise meeting rooms and facilities ensuring accessibility and practical needs are met.

Maintain accurate electronic records and support hr processes such as recruitment administration fixed term contract tracking certificate of sponsorship and visa compliance maternity packs and DBS monitoring.

Support workload peaks across the hr team providing flexible assistance when required.

Represent the HR function professionally in communications with staff and external contacts.

Prioritise and organise your workload to meet operational deadlines including typing formatting documents photocopying and general administrative tasks.

Arrange temporary administrative cover when required ensuring accurate records and correct payment authorisation.

Draft routine and nonroutine correspondence for the hr team.

Work flexibly to meet service needs including varying weekly hours where required.

Follow Ashness house policies and procedures and contribute to improvements in administrative practice.

Ashness house is a calm focused healthcare-setting where people care deeply about their work and each other. Our teams are close-knit supportive and committed to high-standards. The atmosphere is steady friendly and purposeful with everyone working together to create a safe respectful space for staff and patients. You will join a group that values clear-communication practical teamwork and a warm can-do spirit. Working here means being part of an organisation that invests in its people encourages growth and creates a workplace where your contribution truly matters.

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