Junior HR Business Partner

GLL is looking for a Junior HR Business Partner to work at our support office in Woolwich Arsenal. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Junior HR Business Partner, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a Junior HR Business Partner job; it's a career.

As a Junior HR Business Partner, your role is to provide comprehensive HR advice and support to managers and employees (mainly within their geographical region) in line with the organisation’s policies, procedures, and legal requirements.

The job holder will be responsible for recruitment and retention activities, L&D administration, as well as advising managers on casework where necessary and building excellent working relationships with stakeholders.

The role additionally supports the HRBP on the administrative management of Employment Tribunals and the delivery of the corporate and local HR Strategy and objectives through project work. As a Junior People Business Partner, you will become familiar with the operations of the regions and key performance indicators (KPIs) and work with the people partners and the wider people team.

You will support in line managing the People Advisors and People Administrators.

What you’ll do:

Customer Experience

1. Engages with internal and external people to provide an excellent level of customer service.
2. Proactive in supporting and valuing our GLL people.
3. Communicates effectively with people, signposting them to the right activities and services to meet their needs.
4. Responds quickly and effectively to all queries and works hard to resolve issues professionally and effectively.

People Experience

1. Able to lead and inspire others.
2. Demonstrates team spirit and actively supports colleagues by delivering work of a reliable and consistently high standard.
3. Actively contributes to team meetings.
4. Refers to appropriate colleagues for guidance and support as required.

Business Performance

1. To Deputise for the People Business Partner.
2. To support the co-creation and delivery of the planned initiatives of the prioritised people plan which supports the region's business strategy.
3. To ensure interventions and initiatives which will include induction and embedding the GLL values and behaviours, communication, engagement, people development, and feedback.

As a leader within the leisure industry, we can also offer scope to progress your career and job variety like nowhere else.

What you need:

1. Attention to detail/organisational skills.
2. Excellent IT and administration skills.
3. Ability to manage own workload and achieve deadlines.
4. CIPD qualification level 5, HR.
5. Management degree or already part qualified and actively working toward either of both.
6. Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
7. Experience of providing advice and support on a range of key HR Activities such as conduct, capability, absence, grievance, and employee relations issues.
8. Up-to-date and proven experience of managing disciplinary, grievance, and absence management and other employee relations casework.

As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!

The basics:

1. This is a Full-time / part-time, permanent / flexible position. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service; flexible working may be possible, working from home is not possible in this role.
2. We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry-leading rates of pay.
3. We can offer a career, not just a job, with extensive Learning & development support available.
4. A uniform will be supplied and must be worn.
5. GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in.
6. As a staff-owned organisation, you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and have a stake in your business.

Additionally, GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits:

1. Access to a pension scheme.
2. Health Assurance and access to counselling services.
3. Access to the tax-efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.
4. Free annual eye tests.
5. Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!

GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:

1. The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you.
2. Access to team building and fun events such as treks, concerts, outings, etc.
3. Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people – ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet.

About GLL:

As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries, and children’s centres.

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’ because working with us opens a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we are having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.

We offer two different types of work arrangements:

1. A permanent employment contract - part-time and full-time.
2. A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool.

If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7-day-a-week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.

So, whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support, or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects, and people and are Investors in People Gold Award employer.

However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.

We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.

All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications, and location.

To be shortlisted for the role, internal applicants will need to demonstrate their commitment to GLL by becoming a Society member where eligible.