Description:
We are looking for an organised and proactive People & Onboarding Coordinator to join our People & Performance team in Canterbury. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with HR administration or coordination experience who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about creating an excellent employee experience from offer through to onboarding and beyond.
Working closely with the Clinical People Business Partner and Learning & Development Team, you will play a key role in ensuring our onboarding processes are compliant, efficient and engaging, while also supporting learning activities and wider People initiatives.
Principle Duties And Responsibilities
Onboarding Compliance
- Managing the end-to-end offer and onboarding process, including issuing offers and contracts and coordinating pre-employment checks such as right to work, DBS, references, qualifications and professional registrations.
- Coordinating induction activity for new starters, working closely with hiring managers to ensure a smooth and compliant onboarding experience.
- Delivering engaging new starter induction sessions for employees joining the organisation.
- Producing regular onboarding compliance reports, monitoring turnaround times, outstanding checks and potential risks.
- Supporting probation processes by tracking review dates, issuing reminders and escalating overdue reviews where appropriate.
- Maintaining compliance trackers for DBS renewals, professional registrations and mandatory training, ensuring any risks are identified and addressed.
Learning & Development Support
- Providing day-to-day administrative support for Learning & Development activities, including scheduling training, coordinating logistics and preparing learning materials.
- Supporting the delivery of both virtual and face-to-face training sessions.
- Administering our Learning Management System (Attensi), maintaining learner records, enrolling colleagues onto training and providing first-line support.
- Producing reports on learner progress and training completion rates to support the wider People & Performance team.
- Supporting the continual improvement of onboarding and learning processes across the organisation.
General People & Performance Support
- Acting as a first point of contact for routine People and Learning & Development queries, providing timely support and escalating more complex matters where appropriate.
- Supporting employee engagement initiatives, including Culture Amp survey administration and follow-up activities.
- Providing general administrative and project support across the wider People & Performance team.
What we're looking for
- Experience working within an HR Coordinator, HR Administrator or HR Advisor role, ideally with exposure to onboarding, compliance or Learning & Development.
- A good understanding of pre-employment compliance requirements, including right to work and DBS checks.
- Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a busy environment.
- Confident communication skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships across all levels of the organisation.
- Experience using HR systems and/or Learning Management Systems, with confidence producing accurate reports and maintaining employee records.
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach with the ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with professionalism and discretion.
- Experience facilitating or coordinating learning activities is desirable.
- Experience working within healthcare or another regulated environment is desirable.
- A CIPD qualification, or working towards one, would be advantageous.