HR Shared Services Manager

The National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading charity for autistic people. Since 1962, we’ve been transforming lives, changing attitudes and helping to create a society that works for autistic adults and children. We transform lives by providing support, guidance and practical advice for the 700,000 autistic adults and children in the UK, as well as their three million family members and carers.

Within our Adult Services, we support people to understand their diagnosis and how this may impact on their life and the lives of those around them. Our residential services provide accommodation and support for autistic adults 52 weeks a year, 24 hours a day in urban and rural settings. We also provide supported living services for autistic adults who need extra help to live in their own homes or within our accommodation.

We have developed our education offer into a diverse network of independent schools and programmes which are relied upon by hundreds of people across the UK. We provide a wide range of services to support autistic children and young people. We improve and enhance education, care and experiences to help autistic children and young people fulfil their potential.

Visit our website to find out more about who we are and what we do: https://www.autism.org.uk/

Who we are looking for: 

In this new role, we are looking for a proactive, solutions focused HR Shared Services Manager who has the drive and commitment to work hard for the benefit of autistic people, their families and supporters.

This is a great role to work with a newly formed team driving forward plans and solutions to improve the employee experience.  You will manage our HR Hub providing high quality and accurate transactional HR and first line advice to our stakeholders.  We are driving process through our systems, developing self-service and achieving consistency in process.  We’ve come a long way, but there’s still lots to do.  We are a diverse organisation operating within a regulatory environment and need to have assurance of compliance, efficiency and quality.

This is a high volume, fast paced environment with significant opportunities for new ideas and developing a great reputation for our hub team.  You should have extensive experience of developing and implementing great HR process, able to maximise the value of system driven solutions and be able to manage and develop a large and remote team.  You will use your HR experience and knowledge to be a source of advice and guidance to the team and stakeholders in effective HR practice and people management.

Working closely with the wider HR Directorate you will use your knowledge of activity in the hub to drive forward improvements in the wider organisation. 

Sector experience is not essential but you should have at least an understanding of working within a regulatory framework in education, social care and charity.

This role is 35 hours per week but with a great benefit of working a 9-day fortnight.

Salary Circa £45,000

To view the job description please click here

What we can offer you:

• Auto-enrolled Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Excellent induction, training and development programme including training about autism and opportunities to attend our conferences
• Online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits such as cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan & shopping discounts for places such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Halfords, Nike, Apple and loads more!
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Life Assurance at 2 x base salary
• A portfolio of fantastic new salary sacrifices benefits and other flexible benefits private health, dental insurance, car salary sacrifice scheme, activity pass, holiday trading, enhanced pension & salary deduct loans (eligibility criteria may apply)
• Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme & counselling programme
• Free access to the Headspace App – a global leader in mindfulness and you can enrol up to three friends or family for free!
• Eligibility for a Blue Light Card

Where you will be working:

Homebased

About our application process: 

When providing a supporting statement, please refer to the job description and person specification and include any information that shows your suitability for the role.

For more information about this job please contact insert: Julie Birtwistle – Acting Assistant Director of People Julie.birtwistle@nas.org.uk

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

For some roles, successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks which will include additional references and criminal background checks.

Applications for this job are sought from anyone who is suitably qualified and experienced for the role but particularly welcome from those with a diagnosis of autism.

The National Autistic Society is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and adults who use our services and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

We are not accepting applications from Agencies.