Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade C. SCP 5 £25,583 - SCP 6 £25,989

Hours Per Week: 36hours

Base Location: Tameside One, Ashton-under-Lyne

Assessment Date: Interviews Tuesday 26 August 2025

The Role

As a key member of the HR Team, you will provide high quality and effective business support in relation to the employment and development of staff within the organisation and provide an efficient and responsive customer service dealing with enquiries and requests for information.

Supporting operational colleagues working with the HR team, you will deliver a high quality and effective service, you will work to strict deadlines to ensure work is completed in a timely and accurate manner.

The Council is working in an agile way and the role will be hybrid. You will have a mix of working in a council building to carry out your role as well as some working at home and connecting with others virtually.

About You

You should be friendly and courteous, with excellent attention to detail, be self-motivated, organised, flexible, have an enquiring mind and possess excellent communication skills.

You will have the ability to use ICT systems and handle highly sensitive information.

The successful candidate will receive on the job training and career development and will build up knowledge and develop many transferable skills.

Please read the Job Description and Person Specification for the post, which outlines the key objectives.

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 3244 or louise.ashton@tameside.gov.uk

Reference Number: 001107

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