HR Apprentice

Summary

Join our People & Talent Team as an HR Apprentice, supporting a global organisation while working towards a Level 5 qualification. You’ll gain hands-on experience across the full employee lifecycle, working in a fast‑paced, collaborative team and contributing to a world-class employee experience.

Wage

£24,000 a year

Training course

People professional (level 5)

Hours

Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.30pm. Hybrid Working from our Leeds Office (3 days per week in-office).

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 18 May 2026

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

You’ll be part of a fast-paced, friendly, and highly collaborative team where no two days are the same. As we continue to deliver a world-class employee experience across multiple regions, you’ll have the chance to develop meaningful HR skills while contributing to real business impact.

As an HR Apprentice, you will be hands-on from day one, supporting the full employee lifecycle and gaining experience across all areas of People & Talent, including:

• Providing day-to-day HR administrative support to the People Team, managers and employees
• Assisting with onboarding, probation management, training coordination, and employee queries
• Supporting the delivery and tracking of key People initiatives, policies, and processes
• Coordinating ER-related documentation, meeting notes, and follow-up actions
• Maintaining accurate employee records, ensuring compliance with systems, processes, and audit requirements
• Assisting with HR reporting and People MI
• Collaborating with our People Team and Specialists across the UK and India to support wider People projects
• Playing a key part in building an inclusive, positive, and engaging employee experience

Where you'll work

Unit 4
Royds Close
Leeds
LS12 6LL

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

POTENTIAL REALISED - HR & TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

People professional (level 5)

What you'll learn

• Communicate information through appropriate channels to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
• Build and manage multiple and diverse stakeholder's relationships.
• Advise on application of policy, regulation, and law for HR issues.
• Use data and metrics to mitigate areas of risk and highlight opportunities.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders to support achievement of business and organisation objectives.
• Present insight and conclusions on workforce issues or people process failures.
• Enable stakeholders to deliver people solutions. e.g., through negotiation, providing guidance.
• Lead and improve people capability within the business.
• Manage and deliver people related business and change projects.
• Handle and process people data according to legislative requirements.
• Embed organisational people policy to promote a diverse and inclusive culture with stakeholders.
• Analyse financial implications of people solutions ensuring value for money.
• Support the delivery of people strategies using technology and innovation in accordance with regulations and policies.
• Make decisions on people policy and issues raised, escalating concerns outside own area of responsibility.
• Use prioritisation tools e.g., priority matrix to manage workload, and deliver against business objectives.
• Challenge matters which conflict with ethical values or legislation.
• Contribute to the development of people policies and procedures or people initiatives.
• Interpret people and management data, from both internal and external sources to identify trends.
• Educate and support stakeholders to deal with wellbeing issues.
• Benchmark to improve people policies and procedures, or people initiatives.
• Communicate information through appropriate channels to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
• Build and manage multiple and diverse stakeholder's relationships.
• Advise on application of policy, regulation, and law for HR issues.
• Use data and metrics to mitigate areas of risk and highlight opportunities.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders to support achievement of business and organisation objectives.
• Present insight and conclusions on workforce issues or people process failures.
• Enable stakeholders to deliver people solutions. e.g., through negotiation, providing guidance.
• Lead and improve people capability within the business.
• Manage and deliver people related business and change projects.
• Handle and process people data according to legislative requirements.
• Embed organisational people policy to promote a diverse and inclusive culture with stakeholders.
• Analyse financial implications of people solutions ensuring value for money.
• Support the delivery of people strategies using technology and innovation in accordance with regulations and policies.
• Make decisions on people policy and issues raised, escalating concerns outside own area of responsibility.
• Use prioritisation tools e.g., priority matrix to manage workload, and deliver against business objectives.
• Challenge matters which conflict with ethical values or legislation.
• Contribute to the development of people policies and procedures or people initiatives.
• Interpret people and management data, from both internal and external sources to identify trends.
• Educate and support stakeholders to deal with wellbeing issues.
• Benchmark to improve people policies and procedures, or people initiatives.

Training schedule

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

Other in:

Level 3 HR Apprenticeship (grade Completion of Level 3 in)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative
• Non judgemental
• Patience

Other requirements

thebigword follows The Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). As part of this, we will require you to undertake a DBS Check.