People & Culture Generalist

About Threshold

At Threshold we are passionate and champion inclusivity. As such, we advocate for and empower people to reach their full potential, regardless of their illness or disability. Threshold’s mission is to inspire and enable the people we support to live full and independent lives within their communities.

Threshold is a local regional charity committed to enabling individuals with disability or recovering from mental illness to live full, independent lives in the community.

Our Values are central to all of our work and help us to work effectively together.

Empathy: We listen, understand, and support each unique journey with compassion.
Passion: We are passionate about our work.
Innovation: We embrace creativity and changes to improve.
Integrity: We uphold transparency and trust in all we do.
Collaboration: We work together to build inclusive communities

Benefits:

Death in Benefit Service

Three times your Salary

Westfield Health (Level 2): Private Health Care

This gives permanent & fixed term employees access to 24/7 GP services, medical diagnostics, medical treatment & physiotherapy.

Annual Leave Entitlement

You will have 26 days of annual leave per year. Additionally, you will also have 12 customary holidays, normally bank holidays per calendar year.

Enhanced Occupational Sick Pay

Applicable to eligible staff

The role

: Taking ownership in ensuring that all People operational processes are documented and implemented to provide a high-quality experience for staff and support the People Department in delivering operational plans. Assist the Head of People & Culture in championing a best practice approach in respect of all people matters, ensuring compliance with relevant employment legislation and case law
: To provide support to the Head of People & Culture in all areas of management support, recruitment, retention, employee relations and engagement.
Supporting the Head of People & Culture in the regular review of all Policies, ensuring all processes, procedures and associated guidance are reflective to our culture and to embed continuous improvement.
: Support line management with the preparation of job descriptions and personnel specifications.
Support Project Managers with all aspects of the recruitment lifecycle, to include shortlisting, advertisement posting, interviewing and all pre-employment checking, including right to work checks.
To ensure appropriate follow up following interview, to include the issue of conditional offers of employment, reference requests and liaising with successful candidate(s).
Assist with the onboarding process for new employees, identifying process improvements, as appropriate.
Production of recruitment and leaver metrics contributing to workforce planning and retention strategies.
: Be the initial point of contact for all line management in respect of employee relations issues, including grievance, disciplinary, absence management, performance and probationary related concerns.
Provision of best practice advice to line management, advocating the informal approach in respect of employee relations cases.
Provision of management training, coaching and mentoring to upskill mangers on people centric policies and processes.
Contribute to the review of polices, guidance, processes and training in relation to people management.
Provision of formal advice with all issues associated with staff welfare and facilitation of formal aspects of the Absence Management Process.
: Provide support to managers to develop and implement staff engagement and retention initiatives.
Foster an inclusive and diverse working environment through internal staff surveys, pulse surveys and programmes to enhance employee engagement.
Promotion of diversity and inclusion within Threshold, instilling a culture of dynamic and diverse working.
Driving action against findings from employee engagement surveys results holding stakeholders to account.
: Preparation of monthly payroll for all employees, collating all employee contractual changes, new starter information and leavers, as appropriate.
Preparation of monthly submission to include addition or removal of employees in respect of the Health Cash Plan.
Drafting correspondence in relation to contractual changes, probation extensions, sickness absence and performance management.
Assist line management with the implementation of the Probationary Process, ensuring awareness of probationary expectations and requirements.
Ensuring all electronic personnel files are updated for all newly recruited staff and existing Threshold staff members.
: Use People data to provide key metrics to inform management decision making and associated project work.
Analyse, scrutinise and develop insights from People data.
Provision of accurate management information reports as required, to senior stakeholders in respect of project tasks.
: To provide support, guidance and advice to line management in the interpretation and application all terms and conditions of employment, ensuring compliance and consistiency of approach.
: Conducting exit interviews to analyse trends and implement identified change.
: Respect confidentiality and ensure the maintenance of personal data in accordance with Threshold’s Policies and Procedures.
Ensure risk management processes are complied with risks identified and appropriate mitigation actions are implemented.

Essential Criteria:

GCSE Mathematics and English at Grade A – C or equivalent.
2 years’ experience working in a People Generalist role or equivalent, to include experience in the following areas: Recruitment & Selection, Employee Relations, to include support management through investigations for disciplinary, grievance through to Appeal stage and Absence and Performance Management.
Demonstrable knowledge of Northern Ireland employment legislation.
Demonstrable experience of data analysis and production of reports.
Possess a current and valid driving licence or have access to a form of transport that will permit the candidate to meet the requirements of the post in full.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you require any assistance and or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the selection process, due to a disability, please contact, Ryan Greer, Head of People & Culture via e-mail at in the first instance. Please note that you may be asked to provide documentary evidence to support your request for an adjustment during the selection process.

If you wish to receive an application form in an accessible format, please advised us of your requirements as promptly as possible, allowing for the fact that the close date for receipt of applications, remains the same for all applicants.

Equal Opportunities Statement

Threshold is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons, irrespective of age, gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, dependents, religion or political opinion.

Closing Date:

The closing date for receipt of completed CVs and accompanying personal statement on how you satisfy the essential criteria is to be submitted by 5.00pm on Wednesday 14 May 2024 . Please note that CVs and accompanying personal statement will not be accepted after the closing date or time. It is the responsibility of each individual candidate to ensure that their CV and accompanying personal statement has reached by Threshold by the specified closing date and time.

Interviews:

The anticipated scheduled interview date is Tuesday, 20 May 2025.

Please note that Threshold reserve the right to interview candidates early, dependent upon applicant response and caliber. We would strongly recommended that you submit your application as soon as possible.