HR Officer/Manager

Ampleforth, Yorkshire
Ampleforth Abbey Trust

HR Officer/Manager

Salary: Highly competitive, dependent on experience and skills (£40,000 pro rata for part time) + Benefits

Hours: Full or Part-time, permanent (minimum 3 days/21 hours per week).

Based at Ampleforth Abbey YO62 – (based on site with opportunity to occasionally work hybrid)

Closing date: 12th December 2025

Benefits

• Up to 8% employer-matched pension
• Life assurance
• Free lunch during working hours
• Free on-site parking
• 20% discount at the Abbey Shop
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Christmas Closure

About Ampleforth Abbey

Ampleforth Abbey is home to the UK s largest Benedictine monastic community, rooted in the Rule of St Benedict. Our mission is to seek God through prayer and service, and to invite others to experience faith in action.

Located in the Howardian Hills near York, the Abbey sits within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and welcomes thousands of visitors each year to its Retreat Centre, Visitor Centre, Shop and Tea Room.

Ampleforth Abbey Trust, a registered charity, works alongside the monastic community to support this mission. With around 60 lay staff, the Trust delivers on a five-year strategy, choosing a Future Together, to ensure a sustainable, faith-led future for the Abbey and its valley home.

The HR Officer/Manager is responsible for overseeing the HR service for Ampleforth Abbey Trust.

Collaboration will be your cornerstone for delivering a HR service to the Trust. The requirement to adapt to a varied workload is key to the role as it requires the ability to transition between generalist HR support, recruitment, strategic initiatives, and much more.

Main Responsibilities but not limited to:-

• Ensure a professional, fair, and consistent approach to the HR function required by the Trust.
• Ensure the organisations policies and procedures are compliant and adhered to, to minimise risk and thus promoting a positive culture within the Trust and they are reviewed and updated annually/as required.
• Proactively working with and in some instances coaching Line Managers to provide support/guidance/advice on how to manage HR issues within their areas and ensuring you produce all documentation accurately to support the process.
• Embed best practice whilst ensuring that advice and documentation produced by you is compliant with relevant Trust policies and the ACAS Codes of Practice.
• Maintain proactive relationships with line managers to support the overall delivery of the HR service.
• Maintaining the HR Systems and documentation in use within the Trust is up to date with all employee and HR information.
• Collating, analysing, and reporting on data to identify trends and providing pro-active resolutions to any improvements required.
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with external suppliers who provide HR materials or services.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in HR.
• Support the Recruitment processes and provide support and documentation to recruiting managers as and when requested to and in an accurate and timely manner.
• Able to produce the required HR documentation e.g. offers of employment, HR related letters, when required and within the agreed timeframes
• Promote and support the wellbeing of both self and staff through maintenance of healthy work/life balance, taking care to manage energy levels of self and others and taking recovery after peak periods of workload activity.

Skills and Attributes

• Proven experience as a HR Generalist or similar role Employee Relations experience is required.
• Proven record of creating, issuing, and ensuring documentation is produced and records are all accurately up to date, including contracts, policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of / aptitude for HR methodologies, strategies, and techniques for the future as the role grows.
• CIPD qualifications (minimum level 3) or a willingness to undertake this.

Ampleforth Abbey Trust is committed to the highest standards of safeguarding. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

Interested? If you feel that you possess the relevant skills and experience, then please send your cv by return

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