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HR Officer for Trainee Solicitors - Major Law Practice - £38k

HR Officer for Trainee Solicitors - Major Law Practice - £38k

This market leading and award winning law firm are looking for an HR Officer to provide a high level of both HR operational support and strategic HR advice to the trainee solicitors and trainers.

Trainee related:
· Trainee performance management: monitoring trainee review grades, coaching underperforming trainees, training referrals, and advising trainers on the review process and active performance management.
· Absence management including overseeing absence reporting, monitoring trainee absence levels, OH referrals, liaising with the Benefits team on PHI applications, coaching trainers, and counselling trainees on their return to work.
· Managing the trainee international secondment process. Responsibilities include assessing additional secondment requests, analysing and monitoring the busyness levels of London and the international offices, supervising the advertising of trainee secondments and collation of trainee feedback, selecting successful trainees, and liaising with the International Assignment Services team with regards to immigration requirements and secondment terms.
· Supervising the trainee client secondment selection process.
· Presenting and/or training on key processes e.g. trainee secondment process.
· Advising trainees on policies and procedures.
· Providing confidential guidance and career counselling.
· Providing HR operational service to trainees and trainers.
· Assisting with various trainee/graduate recruitment events (seat planning information evenings, LPC visits/drinks, insight week, vacation schemes, open days, university visits, training contract presentations and running business skills games).

Non Trainee Related:
· Responsibility for qualified lawyer secondment programmes: ISP (International Secondment Programme). Responsibilities include assessing secondment requests, liaising with London line HR teams and the international HR teams and offices with regards to capacity/manpower planning, advising HR colleagues on secondment process and terms, conducting secondee inductions, arranging and attending social events, and pastoral care of secondees.
· Coordinating and monitoring London placements for German Referendares.
· Providing secondment reports for International Development Partner and other project work regarding associate development and secondment programmes.

General:
· Answering ad-hoc internal/external HR queries.
· Supervising and providing guidance to two HR Assistants in the team.
· Liaising with a wide range of internal and external contacts e.g. International Assignment Services team, BD, international HR teams, London line HR teams, trainers, Supervising Partners, the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
· Assisting the HR Manager with ad hoc projects and tasks

For more information please call Paul Knight on 020 7638 0303 or email paulknight@hyf.co.uk

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