Apprentice HR Advisor
STARFISH PEOPLE LIMITED
CHICHESTER (PO20 0FF)
Closes in 16 days (Monday 11 May 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 24 April 2026
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Summary
A fantastic opportunity to join Starfish People, a growing HR consultancy supporting SMEs across diverse industries. Ideal for someone with CIPD Level 3, this Apprentice HR Adviser role will play a key role in delivering people-focused outsourced HR services while studying for a People Professional Level 5 Apprenticeship qualification.
- Wage
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£17,500 a year
- Training course
- People professional (level 5)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm, with 6-hour study time on one day.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 17 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 10 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
What you will gain:
- Full support for your development and career growth in a results driven, resourceful environment which always puts humans first.
- Experience working closely with the HR Director and a small team
- Exposure to a wide range of HR challenges across the employee lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
A varied HR generalist position supporting SME clients with day‑to‑day HR needs, including:
- Employee relations support, documentation and fair HR practice
- Practical HR advice for managers and SMEs
- Policy development and review
- Recruitment, selection, onboarding and induction
- Learning and development support, including performance processes
- HR administration, systems use and accurate record keeping
Who you will be:
- Someone keen to play a key role in helping businesses build strong, engaged teams
- Someone with high levels of integrity and professionalism when handling confidential information
- Someone with confidence working in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- Proactive and has a solutions-focused approach to problem-solving
- Someone able to conduct research and analysis, providing robust conclusions and recommendations
- An excellent organiser with exception attention to detail
- Preferably already having some experience working in an HR environment
- Looking for a career in HR and already achieved a CIPD Level 3 qualification
Where you'll work
8 MILLINGTON DRIVE
SELSEY
CHICHESTER
PO20 0FF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CHICHESTER COLLEGE GROUP
Training course
People professional (level 5)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- 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
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Other 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Team Player
- Works on own initiative
About this employer
Starfish People HR, based near Chichester in West Sussex, provides businesses throughout the UK with expert human resources management.
Developing a business is both exciting and demanding. Choosing the right people, with the right aptitude and attitude to help grow your business, is paramount to its success. People are any company’s most asset. They are the difference between astounding results and potential failure. Much like the moral of the well-known Starfish Story, the company’s namesake, they believe in making a difference to one person at a time for the greater good.
Starfish People HR, are all about people; it’s who they are. They encourage everyone to bring their authentic self to work, embrace diversity and grow in a supportive, collaborative environment.
After this apprenticeship
Progress to a full-time role as an HR Adviser and longer-term possibility to progress to an HR Partner upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CHICHESTER COLLEGE GROUP
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000028298.
Apply now
Closes in 16 days (Monday 11 May 2026 at 11:59pm)