HR support level 3 apprentice - Immunocore
Cogent Ssc Limited
Abingdon (OX14 4RY)
Closes on Friday 13 February 2026
Posted on 9 January 2026
Contents
Summary
Immunocore are looking to recruit an HR apprentice. This is an ideal opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to gain experience in a HR department as a start to their HR career.
- Wage
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£21,500 a year
- Training course
- HR support (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday- 9:00am- 5:00pm with a 45 minute unpaid lunch break lunch break.
Friday- 9:00am– 4:15pm with a 45 minute unpaid lunch break lunch break.
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 2 March 2026
- Duration
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1 year 9 months
- Positions available
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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
- Monitoring and responding to first level employee queries though our askHR inbox, including holiday cancellations and absence amendments in PeopleCORE (HR systems)
- Assist with shortlisting and interview coordination by scheduling interviews efficiently in collaboration with the Talent Acquisition team and hiring managers, ensuring compliance with IMCR policies
- Prepare offer letters and draft employment contracts for new starters, ensuring all required documentation is collected promptly
- Coordination of the starters and leavers process, including reference checking, reporting and communicating with other relevant departments
- Setting up and manage arrangements for all new hire inductions including slide preparations, collating induction packs, arranging lab tours
- Managing all aspects of training: including booking trainers, candidate registration, meeting invitations, distribution of pre-work, booking rooms and catering
- Arranging and collating exit interviews and reporting on trends/ analysis
- Maintaining complete and accurate electronic employee files
- Contribute to HR projects focused on diversity, inclusion, engagement, and wellbeing, helping to promote a positive and inclusive workplace culture
- Work alongside operations colleagues to provide guidance to managers and staff on policies, procedures, and best practice
Where you'll work
91 Park Drive
Milton Park, Milton
Abingdon
OX14 4RY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
Training course
HR support (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Service Delivery: Delivers excellent customer service on a range of HR queries and requirements, providing solutions, advice and support primarily to managers. Builds managers’ expertise in HR matters, improving their ability to handle repeated situations themselves where appropriate. Uses agreed systems and processes to deliver service to customers. Takes the initiative to meet agreed individual and team KPIs in line with company policy, values, standards. Plans and organises their work, often without direct supervision, to meet commitments and KPIs.
- Problem Solving: Uses sound questioning and active listening skills to understand requirements and establish root causes before developing HR solutions. Takes ownership through to resolution, escalating complex situations as appropriate.
- Communication & Interpersonal: Deals effectively with customers/colleagues, using sound interpersonal skills and communicating well through a range of media eg phone, face to face, email, internet. Adapts their style to their audience. Builds trust and sound relationships with customers. Handles conflict and sensitive HR situations professionally and confidentially.
- Teamwork: Consistently supports colleagues /collaborates within the team and HR to achieve results. Builds/maintains strong working relationships with others in the team and across HR where necessary.
- Process Improvement: Identifies opportunities to improve HR performance and service; acts on them within the authority of their role. Supports implementation of HR changes/projects with the business.
- Managing HR Information: Maintains required HR records as part of services delivered. Prepares reports and management information from HR data, with interpretation as required.
- Personal Development: Keeps up to date with business changes and HR legal/policy/process changes relevant to their role. Seeks feedback and acts on it to improve their performance and overall capability.
Training schedule
The training for this apprenticeship will be online
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE 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
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
About this employer
As the specialists in skills for science and technology, our purpose is to make sure your business; your people and our industry are future ready. We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation with a family of commercially focused companies committed to supporting the skills, needs and ambitions across the UK science and technology sector.
https://cogentskills.com/vacancies/ (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be eligible to apply for other positions within the business
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000007930.
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Closes on Friday 13 February 2026
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