Emma Jenkinson Email and Phone Number

I work for an independent charity with a workforce of 165 paid employees and 200 volunteers. Valley CiDS operate 36 charity shops, which financially support our Children’s Team working in over 75 Primary Schools, along with our Youth Teams and three large Youth Centres. We also run a 35 place Nursery.Working in a standalone HR Manager role I provide high quality front line HR Generalist support across the charity. This includes:• Advising managers and employees with HR policies and procedures • Dealing with high volume complex ER cases including disciplinary, grievances, capability and absence management. Advising and coaching managers on how to deal with issues and prevent future occurrences• Support and guide managers across the organisation with performance reviews; probation reviews; sickness absence management; investigations; capability processes; disciplinary & grievance processes.• Enhance the charities human resources by planning, implementing and evaluating employee relations and human resources policies, programs and practices• Manage payroll & administration staff by recruiting, selecting and training employees• Oversee payroll processing ensuring any additional payments or deductions have been added • Effectively manage the onboarding and offboarding processes for employees, ensuring a timely, thorough and positive experience. This includes facilitating and conducting interviews, using a variety of interview techniques• Support Managers with Safeguarding practices in relation to working with vulnerable adults• Lead on HR/change management projects and initiatives across business.• Liaise with external legal and business advisors when required• Manage and maintain HR management system• Manage all administration relevant to HR • Work closely with business leaders and line management providing expert guidance on a variety of HR matters.• Provide management information/reports on a routine and ad-hoc basis.

Yü Energy are a business energy supplier of gas and electric based in Nottingham, providing an unprecedented service to the energy industry.Summary of my role:• Responsible for the launch and development of company wide work benefits• Management of Corporate Social Responsibility strategy• Accountable for the implementation and successful roll out of a new eHRM software system.• Ensuring the smooth running of HR paperwork including the induction of new starters, the production of Employment Contracts and the maintenance of the Yu Energy Employee Handbook.• Monitor sickness, absence levels, headcount etc. and provide monthly management reports to the HR Manager and CEO.• Manage internal HR communication and utilise the company intranet• Responsible for running the employee engagement strategy, ensuring Yu Energy is an employer of choice for both current and future employees.

This was a stand alone role which I was fully responsible in recruiting for all permanent roles for North Midland Construction, Nomenca and Severn Trent Water. ●Writing and posting of vacancies ●Reviewing and screening CV’s & Coordinating Interviews ●Facilitating, coordinating and attending training and development for Recruitment throughout the business. ●Liaising and coordinating with prime partners and external and internal recruitment requirements ●Completing Thomas Behavioural profiling ●Coordinating Careers Fairs ●Reviewing and Monitoring agency usage in line with proposed budget ●Manage and report on NMC Recruitment budget by complying quarterly reports

My role was a generalist HR Shared Services Team Leader, providing managerial support to all levels of clinical and non-clinical managers on a daily basis within 53 satellite clinics and two head office sites, including distribution, finance, production, sales & marketing and Customer Services. Managing the Administration within the HR Shared Service department, in order to provide a service to the business.Key Achievements:Contributed to the successful implementation of the HR systems (Payroll, EMS & Time and Attendance) Implemented the new online recruitment system, ensuring that all company requirements were met by the system; increasing the company’s brand image and reducing the time to hireImplemented a paperless working environment, transferring all hard copies of personnel files to an electronic database, transferred company handbook and other policies onto employee self service portal, assisted in transferring DBS checking from paper based to online system, reducing time to hire.Completing full audit of employee file and prepared documentation for Home Office auditsProject Managed an Occupational Health transition between companies, which included working to current legislation requirements within Occupational Health.Project Managed an Ireland HR & Payroll interface for 80 staff members.

My role at NFT was a HR Administrator, providing managerial support to all levels of the business on a daily basis throughout the 7 sites including head office.Key Achievements:Assisted in implementation of HR & Payroll system (Topaz) and rolled out training and guidelines to each site.Running company personal pension scheme from date of inceptionAssisted in implementation of a new recruitment system (Apoint), to be in line with legislation Becoming NFT super user of the Topaz HR / Time & Attendance system, providing support and training to colleagues and other users.