HR Officer

Role: HR Officer

Sector: Public Sector

Duration: Contract Until December 2026

Location: West Sussex

Salary: £18 PAYE per hour

Sellick Partnership is currently recruiting for an experienced HR Officer to join our public sector organisation, based in West Sussex. The role is for 5 months until December 2026 and is offered on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 3 days a week onsite.

The HR Officer will provide professional, proactive HR Support to the organisation during a period of increased project activity. The role will ensure continuity of day to day operations, supporting managers across a wide range of people matters, while contributing to the effective delivery of recruitment, employee relations advice and HR reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Providing advice and guidance to managers on the end to end recruitment process, ensuring compliance with the organisation's procedures and best practice
• Ensuring all recruitment activity is conducted in accordance with employment law
• Coordinating and facilitating recruitment activity including advertising, shortlisting support and interview processes
• Providing hiring managers with updates on recruitment, identifying any risks or delays
• Advising managers on contractual terms and conditions, including local and national agreements, ensuring compliance with employment legislation
• Preparing, issuing and maintaining contracts of employment and new starter documentation accurately and in a timely manner
• Processing and implementing contractual changes, ensuring accuracy, compliance and alignment with payroll deadlines
• Maintaining accurate and up to date contractual records within HR systems in line with data protection requirements
• Producing regular and ad hoc HR reports (e.g. absence, casework trends, workforce metrics)
• Presenting data clearly and effectively to managers and senior stakeholders
• Supporting data cleansing, validation and preparation activities to ensure high quality data for system implementation and organisational change planning

Key qualifications and attributes

• Experience in a similar HR role
• Experience in advising on contracts of employment and conditions of service
• Experience in HR data analysis and reporting
• CIPD qualification
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels
• Impeccable eye for detail and accuracy
• Strong prioritisation, efficiency and effectiveness under unpredictable deadlines and conflicting demands

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. We assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV.