Human Resources Consultant Apprentice (Level 5) SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED

Location

St John's, Greater London | United Kingdom

Job description

What you will do in your working day

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Apprenticeship Programmes are a great way to earn and learn! Our HR Apprentice Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the core of our business. Entering an apprenticeship scheme with us involves working towards the role of a fully-fledged professional, earning a salary, whilst also being able to maintain a sense of academic achievement. At Severn Trent we provide the perfect mix between hands-on experience and a formal qualification, enabling our apprentices to make a real lasting difference to our customers and communities, not just for now, but far into the future.

As an apprentice HR Consultant, you’ll be exposed to a wide range of opportunities through tailored placements across the following functions to help you develop your HR generalist experience, including; HR Operations & Reward, Resourcing & New Talent, The Academy and HR Business Partnering & Change. 

You'll be supporting colleagues to help create a fair and equitable working environment where everyone can succeed by:

• Providing advice, guidance, and support to our colleagues when they need it most
• Developing data and analytics that drive valuable insight and decision making
• Supporting our annual employee cycle of activities (such as pay review, bonus, performance, and talent reviews etc
• Enabling and supporting our colleagues through business change and transformation
• Attracting, selecting, and on-boarding talented individuals to Severn Trent so we can deliver on our customer promises
• Partnering with leadership teams to continue to improve employee engagement
• Help our colleagues to continue to grow, learn and develop new skills through our Academy
• Delivering on our diversity and inclusion ambition, to have a workforce that reflects the communities we serve
• You’ll rotate across a number of different areas of the HR team throughout your apprenticeship programme to help you build a breadth of knowledge, skills and experience

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN

• A good understanding across all HR disciplines, legislation and policies and procedures. As well as best practice and emerging thinking
• How to develop and deliver HR solutions that drive business performance whilst motivating, supporting and developing our employees
• How to build relationships with colleagues and leaders across the organisation
• You’ll have the opportunity to learn a specialism across; Resourcing, Reward, HR Operations or Learning and Development, to suit your strengths and interests

The training you will be getting

Within different placements across HR you will complete the Level 5 People Professional Apprenticeship standard, allowing you to develop the skills & experience required to become an expert. You’ll combine on-the-job learning with formal, nationally recognised development training. A Personal Development Plan will help drive your career progression, set, agreed & regularly reviewed with your line manager. 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We want our employees to care and to have a genuine passion for what we do as a business. We need people who want to make a difference in providing a vital service to our customers, now and for the long-term. 

We’d love you to be someone with… 

• A ‘can do’ attitude – willing to get stuck in, take accountability for decisions and actions and who takes pride in their work 
• A love of variety in a role and ability to adapt to a dynamic, fast-paced working environment  
• Ability to quickly prioritise tasks and the initiative to dive head-first into problem solving
• No two days are the same on the front line and not every day goes to plan, so you’ll need to be quick on your feet to respond!  
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and enjoy working with multiple teams 
• Ability to analyse and interpret information and effectively communicate this to different team members and audiences 
• Curiosity to learn quickly in a reactive and dynamic working environment  

What to expect at the end of your apprenticeship

• By the end of this programme, you will take up a role in HR, such as a HR advisor/HR specialist. Within this role you will be able to put your skills to action!

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Salary

£17.19k per annum