Do you thrive in a role where every day is different and your attention to detail makes a real impact?

Are you passionate about people and processes?

Want to be part of promoting an inclusive workplace?

If so, this could be the perfect role for you.

Our People and Organisational Development (POD) team champions a growing and diverse organisation. As our HR Assistant, you'll be at the heart of our team, ensuring smooth and efficient HR processes.

You'll love structure and are a natural at ensuring things run like clockwork. You’ll bring your organisational skills to streamline our HR processes and make them more efficient.
With a keen talent to work with data, you’ll ensure accuracy across our HR systems and contribute to continuous improvement plans.
As a crucial touchpoint for our colleagues, you'll be customer focused with experience of providing excellent service.

If you’re ready to bring your skills and passion to a team that values diversity and thrives on partnership, we want to hear from you.

Internally this role is referred to as People and OD Support Officer

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You’ll work together with our POD team and colleagues across the business, to create a positive, supportive and inclusive working environment.

Day-to-day you'll be welcoming new colleagues, managing employee records and assisting our colleagues with a variety of issues. From providing processing employment changes to supporting our specialist Business Partners. No two days will be the same!

To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.

We don’t expect candidates to meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)

Schedule

Application closing date: 29th September 2024

Sifting date: 30th September 2024

Interviews: Teams interview 3rd and 4th October

Assessment and face to face interviews: 10th October 2024

(If you are unavailable on the interview date, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)

Security

Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.

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Our Benefits

A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
Unlock exclusive employee discounts
Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.

Working With Us

We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.

With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.

Who We Are

Here at the Coal Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.

We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.

We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.

We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.

Equality, Diversity And Inclusion

Here at TCA we don’t just accept difference - we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it for the benefit of our colleagues, our customers and our communities. We are proud to be an inclusive employer. We are committed to developing a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. We encourage applications from people from different backgrounds, identities, cultures and beliefs. Diversity is vital to our success and innovation and is fundamental to our values of being trusted, inclusive and progressive.

As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or alternative format application forms you can get in touch with us by contacting the team by email at recruitment@coal.gov.uk or by phone on 01623 637000.

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