HR Administrator

• Position: HR Administrator
• Salary: £26,000 - £28,000 per annum
• Location: Broxbourne, Herts
• Contract Type: Permanent / Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:30 (hours may vary)

Our Client:

Our client is a unique organisation which provides a wide range of humanistic and caring services for children and young people experiencing family and community exclusion who are often either on the edge of care or looked after. Their services include Secure Transport, Wellbeing, 24 Hour Care Services, Residential Children's Home, 24 Hour Hospital Watch. They are based in a beautiful country setting and were awarded The Sunday Times Best Places To Work 2025.

About the role

Our client are looking for an HR Administrator to support their business. The main purpose of the role is to assist in the execution and the upkeep of HR, recruitment and compliance.

Duties and Responsibilities

TalentHQ Recruitment are recruiting for a HR Administrator on behalf of our client to support with their HR and recruitment activities.

This role would suit someone with a genuine interest in HR who has some previous experience working within recruitment or an HR environment.

You will play a key role in supporting the full recruitment lifecycle, including compliance, safer recruitment processes and onboarding. You will become a go-to person within the team for all recruitment-related matters, ensuring a smooth and efficient hiring process.

This is a great opportunity to contribute to building a positive, high-performing workplace culture while developing your career.

Key Responsibilities:

• Recruitment and Selection
• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, including job descriptions, advertising, interviewing, and onboarding.
• Ensuring all preemployment checks are completed and compliant, including the ordering and verification of enhanced DBS certificates.
• Compliance and Policy
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date employee records and documentation.
• Managing HR-related paperwork and reporting requirements.
• Ensuring the organisation complies with safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Training and Development
• Maintaining and tracking the staff training matrix, ensuring all staff are up to date with relevant training.
• Ensuring staff have access to necessary training and resources.
• HR Administration
• Managing the administration of personnel records and documentation.
• Maintaining employee data on the HR system - Sage HR.
• Safer Recruitment

Qualifications & Experience:

• CIPD part-qualified or currently working towards (preferred)
• Degree in HR, Business Administration or a related field (preferred)
• Previous experience working within HR or recruitment
• Confident managing end-to-end recruitment processes and HR systems
• Safer Recruitment training (preferred)
• Experience working within children's services (preferred)

Skills & Attributes:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• High levels of professionalism, confidentiality, and discretion
• Confident advising at all levels within the business
• Proactive, self-motivated, and detail-oriented
• Passionate about fostering a positive workplace culture

Requirements:

• A Full valid UK driving licence
• Participate in compulsory training when required to attend
• Maintain confidentiality at all times, in accordance with agreed policy
• Willing to undergo a DBS check (or already holds one)
• Two checkable references required
• Safer Recruitment trained or to be trained

Benefits:

• Spacious offices set in a beautiful country setting with onsite parking
• Team building and exciting team events
• Referral programme
• Company pension
• Company events
• Free onsite parking
• Health and wellbeing programmes including yoga classes and swimming pool use
• Welfare checks
• Reflective practice groups
• The Sunday Times Best Places To Work 2025.

Due to the nature of the business, an enhanced DBS certificate will be required and references.

Thank you for your interest in this vacancy, which is being advertised by TalentHQ Ltd, acting as an Employment Agency. Your application will be considered alongside others, and we will contact you within 5 working days if you are shortlisted. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret that we are unable to respond to each applicant individually. By applying for this role, you accept our Privacy Policy which you can find on our website.