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On behalf of Homes England, we are looking for an HR Officer - (Inside IR35) for a 2-month contract working on a remote basis

Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

Role Purpose

This role provides a comprehensive, high-quality and responsive customer-focused service to colleagues across the employee life cycle. They support the business on all specialist and technical HR queries, as well as general queries, policies and procedures.

The role holder administers all processes that underpin HR infrastructure, provide first line advice and guidance, and oversee transactional input in relation to people change processes.

The role consistently demonstrates and embeds the values and behaviours in daily work, contributing to a positive and inclusive culture.

As an HR Officer - (Inside IR35) your main responsibilities will be:

• Support a range of related activities (e.g., providing first-line HR advice and guidance on people issues, building positive relationships with internal stakeholders and external third parties, supporting annual performance management and pay review processes) with precision and awareness within the team.
• Use communication skills to understand and advise others effectively to assist in the completion of tasks in line with SLAs.
• Apply practical HR experience to identify, analyse, and resolve complex problems, in line with processes and procedures.
• Provide advice and support, responding to queries within the team.
• Work independently within standardised routines.
• Deliver results for the Colleague Services Team through technical proficiency and drive continuous improvements in HR processes, policies, and procedures.
• Contribute to the performance of technical functions within the HR Team.
• Influence resource utilisation and provide administrative support to the HR Team.

Essential 

• Experience of Onboarding – BPSS Checks, new starter docs, data input into HR systems
• HR Admin experience
• Experience in using Microsoft Office
• Data input experience
• Excel to intermediate level
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable

• CIPD

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Homes England guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".