Apprentice Human Resources Associate
MITIE GROUP PLC
London (SE1 9SG)
Closes in 11 days (Tuesday 19 August 2025)
Posted on 5 August 2025
Contents
Summary
Ready to kick-start your HR journey with a company that’s big on values and even bigger on impact? Join Mitie as a HR Associate and gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, purpose-led environment. You’ll earn a CIPD Level 5 and grow into a future HR leader - all while making a real difference.
- Wage
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£28,000 a year
- Training course
- People professional (level 5)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 10 months
- Positions available
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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
As a HR Associate, you will join our Corporate Centre People team, reporting into the Senior People Partner to support central corporate functions (such as Finance, IT, Legal, etc.) in driving the people agenda. This entry-level role offers hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment, working closely with managers and employees to implement HR initiatives and provide day-to-day HR guidance. You will act as a trusted advisor on people matters and lead specific HR projects to broaden your expertise across the HR profession.
This is a leadership development role, designed for someone who is ambitious, curious, and ready to grow into a future HR Business Partner.
Key Responsibilities:
- Business Partnering: Build relationships with departmental leaders and become their go-to HR partner. Work closely with these managers to align HR strategies with business objectives and ensure people plans support each department's needs
- HR Advisory: Provide guidance to managers and employees on HR policies, procedures, and best practices to ensure fair and consistent HR support
- Be a value driven champion, driven the broader People Strategy and embedding equality, diversity and inclusion into the organisation
- Support HR activity across the employee lifecycle - for example performance management, talent review and recruitment to support the business
- Project Involvement: Take ownership of specific HR projects or initiatives across the corporate centre to give you exposure to different HR Centres of Excellence and build your experience across various corporate functions
- Build great relationships with colleagues in the One HR community and across the organisation
- Critical friend & Change Agent: Act as a trusted point of contact for managers, addressing their queries and concerns with professionalism and confidentiality. Support change management efforts by helping employees and managers navigate organisational changes or new HR programs, ensuring smooth adoption and understanding
Where you'll work
1 London Bridge Street
London
SE1 9SG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LEARNMORE SKILLS LTD
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
People Professional Level 5.
This role is part of our enhanced early talent development pathway, designed to accelerate your growth as a future HR Business Partner. As a HR Associate, you'll be joining our People team at an exciting stage of growth. From day one, you'll be supported to build the skills and experience needed to become a future HR Business Partner. You'll work on meaningful people initiatives across our corporate centre, gaining hands-on experience while being supported by a dedicated mentor. You will also have exciting opportunities for rotation within the HR Function, giving you exposure to different roles within HR.
To support your growth, you'll complete a fully funded CIPD Level 5 People Professional Apprenticeship over 20 months, alongside mentoring and tailored on-the-job learning, giving you a solid foundation in HR practice and the confidence to contribute strategically. Working alongside our partnered training provider, you will be assigned a dedicated coach to support you through your learning and have 6 hours of dedicated time per week to work towards your off-the-job learning on your Apprenticeship programme. This role is ideal for someone who is people-focused, curious, and ready to learn in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
About this employer
At Mitie, we’re the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company. We deliver critical services that power businesses, communities, and individuals across the nation. Rock Power Connections are proud to be part of Mitie designing and building electrical infrastructure solutions across the UK, bringing high voltage power to the places it’s needed.
Company benefits
Enjoy flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle, from virtual GP access and early pay to retail discounts, extra holiday, and wellbeing support. We offer great training, and career development, plus the chance to win up to £10,000 with Mitie Stars!
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
This role is part of our enhanced early talent development pathway, designed to accelerate your growth as a future HR Business Partner. As a HR Associate, you'll be joining our People team at an exciting stage of growth. From day one, you'll be supported to build the skills and experience needed to become a future HR Business Partner.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LEARNMORE SKILLS LTD
earlycareers@mitie.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335668.
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Closes in 11 days (Tuesday 19 August 2025)
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