HR Administration Assistant / Apprentice

Job Introduction

Do you want to build on your experience within HR or Operations Administration and take the next step in your HR career?

If so, we would love to hear from you. The role is based with the operations team in the heart of Bloomsbury and key to providing support and guidance to managers. You will be part of a service focused on ensuring we provide a clean and safe environment for students and UCL staff to teach, learn and live in.

What you’ll do:

You will work closely with the HR Business Partner on a range of HR areas including HR administration (i.e. changes to terms and conditions), employee relations, sickness management, delivery of training, and employee engagement.

Together with this, we would love to support you in undertaking the CIPD Level 3 apprenticeship.

Key skills required include building relationships with operational managers and our central HR teams, data collation and analysis and sue of the HR systems, and effective and clear communication to a range of stakeholders (including staff whose first language is Spanish and Portuguese).

Role Responsibility

The Ideal Candidate

• Previous experience of HR Administration  

• An understanding of Employee Relations issues  

• Possess a high level of confidentiality  

• Excellent IT skills, including experience of MS Excel and a willingness to build skills using this 

• Experience in working within a unionised environment  

• The ability to plan and organise  

• Able to prioritise own workload and to work to strict deadlines  

• Experience of working without direct supervision  

• High attention to detail 

• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, communication and presentation skills  

Package Description

£27'000 Per Annum 

Hybrid Working Model /Office base Chenies Mews London great cosmopolitan Location

Opportunity to gain CIPD Qualification if desired 

Enhanced Annual leave incorporating 27 days plus bank holidays and 6 UCL Closure Days over Easter and Christmas

In addition to our commitment to provide the opportunity of the apprenticeship, we can provide additional training through our wider HR Community, exposure to the HR community and specialist teams supporting over 30,000 staff in the UK, and the wider global HR community within Sodexo.As part of the Sodexo UCL team you would also benefit from:

Enhanced pension contributions

Flexible working between home and office, i.e. 3 days in the office and 2 days at home, with the potential to have flexible start and finish times.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.  

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. 

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process