Job Description

HR Training & Recruitment Coordinator

Join Squire’s and play a key role in supporting our people across 17 Garden Centres. Working closely with the HR Team, you will help deliver a comprehensive HR service, coordinate training and development activities, support recruitment campaigns, and promote employee engagement initiatives across the business.

Full Time Working Hours: This is a full-time position working 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Due to the nature of the role, occasional weekend work may be required to support recruitment events, training activities or business initiatives.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing HR advice and guidance to managers on employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, performance and capability cases.
• Supporting the planning, delivery and evaluation of training programmes, including e-learning and in-house training materials.
• Coordinating the Performance Review process and helping identify development needs across the business.
• Supporting recruitment and selection activities, ensuring best practice, legal compliance and innovative attraction methods.
• Managing the Squire’s apprenticeship programme.
• Supporting the HR & Payroll team to ensure accurate administration and excellent customer service.
• Maintaining HR records and reporting on key people metrics including vacancies, absence, training and employee engagement.
• Managing employee engagement initiatives, including the Made A Difference (MAD) Award and Light Bulb Moment (LBM) schemes, employee surveys and benefit programmes.

About you: You will have previous HR experience and in particular in a training environment, very strong excel and power point skills, strong organisational skills, excellent communication abilities, and a passion for developing people. CIPD qualification or working towards CIPD is desirable, along with experience of training coordination and recruitment.

This is an excellent opportunity to make a real impact on employee experience and development within a successful, family-owned business.

Squire’s is a family-owned group of 17 garden centres based in Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, and Berkshire. Since 1936 the purpose of our business has been the happiness of those who work in it.

We are committed to growing our business and to promoting the highest standards in horticulture, catering, and retail.

We want our staff to enjoy working with us in a friendly, energetic customer focused environment.

Rewards & Benefits:

We want our employees to be known for their friendliness, helpfulness, and good customer service, with their whole ethos being ‘nothing is too much trouble for our customers’. In turn we will provide an extensive benefit package, please see below.

• Employee Discount – 50% in Restaurants and 20% in Garden Centre on joining, increasing to 25% after 2 years’ service and 30% after 5 years’ service.
• Holiday (including bank holidays) – 5.6 weeks on joining increasing to 6.2 week after 2 years’ service and 6.6 weeks after 5 years’ service.
• Bonus – We reward our employees with a non-contractual bonus at Christmas, based on the profit of the company in any financial year (first year is dependent on start date)
• Pension – We are all aware of how important it is to save for our retirement. We offer a Defined Contribution Pension Plan to new employees. If you pay into the plan and meet the government criteria, the company will too, and these contributions will be invested.
• Attendance – After one years service, if you have worked for a full financial year and have 100% attendance, one day holiday (pro-rata) will be added to your holiday grant as a 'Thank you'.
• Made A Difference Scheme (M.A.D) – A reward scheme for team members who make a difference to our business through outstanding customer service, over and above normal duties or initiatives that have grown / inspired the business. There is a monthly winner. All winners select a gift to receive.
• Learning & Development – You can look forward to a wealth of learning opportunities with us that will enhance and develop you with the skills and confidence you need.
• Birthday – After 6 months service if your birthday falls on your contracted day to work, you can leave work early (holiday policy rules apply). If you have 2 years service on your birthday, you will receive a £25 Squires gift voucher (pro rata for less than 40 hours).
• Cycle2work scheme – After 1 years service, a government initiative which offers a 25% to 39% saving on new cycling equipment. This cost is deducted out of your pay over 12 or 19 months.
• Child's first day at school – After 1 year's service come in late and go home early on your child's first day of school life, so that you can be there to take them and pick them up from school on their first day.
• RHS Membership or a Tree / Shrub – After 1 years service Squire's employees can choose either one tree or shrub to plant each year up to the value of £50 retail on the anniversary of your engagement or £50 towards RHS annual membership.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – After 2 years service employees are eligible to join an EAP, that gives them access to a range of wellbeing resources, etc.
• Retirement – After 15 years service if you are retiring and have over 15 years service, your contracted hours will be reduced by a fifth but your pay will remain the same for your final 3 months.
• Free Parking – Available to all employees in the designated parking areas on our site.