JOB TITLE:HR Operations & Recruitment Manager (12-month maternity cover)

CONTRACT TYPE:12-month fixed term contract

DEPARTMENT:Human Resources

HOURS:37.5 hours per week

SALARY:£37,957 - £42,789 per annum (depending on experience)

CLOSING DATE:The post could close at any time - we will review applications as we receive them

INTERVIEW DATE:Interviews will be arranged on an ad hoc basis

Are you a HR professional that wants to be part of our move to a new hospice? This is an exciting time to join the hospice as in Autumn 2023 we will be relocating to Pease Pottage, this role will play an integral part in the transition to our new hospice.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and highly motivated person that can hit the ground running, up for a challenge and is happy to roll their sleeves up but has a keen eye for attention to detail.

This is an interesting, varied hands-on HR role and youll need to be a whizz at:

• HR System super user including reporting
• Pay and Reward
• Recruitment
• Compliance
• Administration
• You dont need to have experience in employee relations.

You'll work alongside employees and volunteers across the People Directorate ensuring we are recruiting and retaining the very best.

You need to have a keen eye for attention to detail, be proactive and creative around recruitment and comfortable with employment law around contracts and pay and reward.

Your input will be essential in continuing to develop and shape how the transactional service is delivered. Managing and supporting a small team, you will lead the team and agree standards across the team, responsible for managing the HR system and delivery of the recruitment, reward and transactional service on a day to day basis.

You'll ensure organisational understanding and compliance with HR practices, Care Quality Commission, and other regulatory and statutory bodies' requirements.

This post is for a 12 month maternity cover, working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Please note that this role could close at any time as we will review applications as we receive them.

This is a great time to join us ahead of our move towards a new, larger hospice at Pease Pottage in 2023.

For a full job description, click here.

When you join St Catherines, youll be joining a supportive team all working towards a big ambition: to help everyone face death informed, supported and pain free. If that sounds like something youd find fulfilling, please apply today.

Employees at St Catherines Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service to 30 days + public holidays
• Option to buy or sell up to 1 week of annual leave
• Day off for volunteering
• Day off for moving house
• Blue Light Card
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye test vouchers
• Generous Pension Up to 9% employer contributions or honour of NHS pension
• Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
• Life Assurance 4x basic salary
• Pay enhancement of unsocial hours
• Flu Jabs
• Counselling Offering
• Discounted Gym
• Schwartz rounds
• Wellbeing Supervision (aka clinical supervision)
• Career pathway and progression

If this role sounds like it could be for you, please apply now.

Please upload either your CV or St Catherine's Hospice application form where it asks you to upload your resume, there is no need to complete both.

If you don't have a CV and would like to submit an application form, this can be found here.

Whilst it is not yet a requirement to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, we encourage all applicants to be fully vaccinated as this may be a requirement of the role going forward.

This role is subject to a Enhanced DBS check. By applying you are confirming you have read the Enhanced Check Privacy Policy for applicants https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-privacy-policies and understand how DBS will process my personal data and the options available to me for submitting an application.

We are located in Malthouse Road, Crawley, West Sussex, which is within commuting distance from Brighton and London and just a 5-minute walk from Crawley railway station. In Autumn of 2023 we will be relocating to Pease Pottage where this role will then be based.