This role may involve nationwide travel, and we'd be happy to discuss the expected frequency and typical locations with you. Ideally, you will be based in the Midlands. We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures. We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us. We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience, which helps ensure we provide a service which promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families we work with. Let us tell you a bit more about the role… As a Trainee HR Officer, you will contribute to a busy, inclusive HR Operations team. The team plays an important role in partnering with managers across the organisation to deliver outstanding frontline HR services, which in turn helps achieve the best possible outcomes for children. In turn, you will gain invaluable practical insight and experience spanning the employee life cycle within a talented team that will give you a platform to develop professionally. In terms of what you can expect to be doing in this role, this is likely to include:

• Under the direction and supervision of a HR Manager and/or HR Business Partner / Officer, you will be responsible for supporting the provision of a high quality, proactive HR service to frontline management teams and corporate services, across a full range of activities.
• To maintain the HR database and to analyse the data to produce reports as and when required.
• To support the local HRBP / HRO with collation, analysis and presentation of HR Management Information, to assist with the strategic workforce planning activity.
• Undertaking specific strands of project work as directed, including research activities, gathering, analysing and presenting information, liaison and negotiation with internal and external stakeholders and arranging meetings and briefings. Presenting findings in a confident and professional manner.
  
  You will have a degree level qualification (or equivalent) and/or CIPD professional qualification (or working towards one).
• Practical experience of working in a HR environment undertaking across a broad range of HR activities, potentially as a HR Administrator or Assistant or similar.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) that enable you to have effective working relationships with a broad range of internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrate you are able to use HR data to identify trends to make recommendations
• A clear commitment to developing your career within HR.
• Experience of managing and prioritising your workload, working with minimal instruction and achieving targets within required timescales.
• Demonstrate personal resilience and organisational skills to manage yourself and others
  
  Cafcass represents children in family court cases in England. We independently advise the family courts about what is safe for children and in their best interests. We put their needs, wishes and feelings first, making sure that children's voices are heard at the heart of the family court setting. Operating within the law set by Parliament (Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000) and under the rules and directions of the family courts, we are independent of the courts, social services, education and health authorities and all similar agencies.
Our duty is to safeguard and promote the welfare of children going through the family justice system, supporting over 140,000 children every year by understanding their experiences and speaking up for them when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures. Cafcass is the largest employer of qualified social workers in England and is deeply committed to making a positive difference to each child we support. We are proud that everyone working for Cafcass is united in improving the lives of children, families and carers.