HR Coordinator Mat Cover

Our customers book dreams and it’s our job to ensure we turn those dreams into reality. It doesn’t matter at what point in your career you are with us, which department you work for or where you are based, every team member plays their own crucial part in achieving our Belief “Everyone Deserves a Little Luxury”.

We have strong values that drive our ambition of becoming one of the largest tour operator groups in the UK travel sector and are looking for people who will be excited to help drive business growth. If you are entrepreneurial in spirit, creative in your thinking, and always ready to go the extra mile then we want you onboard.

We are looking for an HR Coordinator to support the HR Manager in providing an efficient, professional, and proactive HR Service across the business to managers and employees. Successful applicants must demonstrate that they have a keen interest in HR and are willing to spend time developing themselves. You must have a strong administrative background, be able to work diligently at pace, be highly organised and be flexible in your approach to meet the demands of a very varied generalist HR role.

Please note: This role involves comprehensive training and development, including daily support to managers and employees across the business. Therefore, you must be able to work full time (37.5 hours Monday to Friday) and be based in the Chester Office.

• Supporting the HR Manager in providing a proficient administrative HR service across the organisation.
• Manage the HR administration inbox, responding promptly to manager and employee HR queries in line with employment legislation/law.
• Maintaining and updating employee electronic records.
• Assist with the onboarding of new starters, including issuing new starter paperwork, obtaining references, conducting credit and DBS checks, and administering employee benefits.
• Co-ordinate processes for employee changes to contracts adhering to payroll deadlines.
• Assist with the processing of leavers, issuing confirmation of resignation letters, liaising with other departments to ensure deactivation is completed, replying and processing reference requests.
• Liaising with payroll, managers, and employees to ensure seamless processes.
• Oversee the recruitment process/administration, including posting job adverts, creating job descriptions, using various media channels, allocation of CVs, liaising with applicants, agencies, and managers, and keeping all records updated.
• Ensure sickness absence records are up to date and return-to-work interviews completed.
• Coordinating the probation review process for all new starters.
• Preparing reports and presentation slides for senior management to meet deadlines.
• Creating HR News Articles and HR notifications for the Company intranet.
• Prioritise and action own workload to meet internal and external deadlines.
• Work with various in-house systems, computer programmes, Google documents, and other websites.
• To assist the HR Officer in the smooth running of the HR department.
• Undertake ad hoc duties/projects as and when required.
• Attend and assist with HR meetings as and when required.

Please note the above-mentioned duties are not exhaustive as this is a generalist HR role to support the HR Manager.