HR Apprentice
CAMMELL LAIRD SHIPREPAIRERS & SHIPBUILDERS LIMITED
Wirral (CH41 9BP)
Closes in 23 days (Sunday 28 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 5 September 2025
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Summary
To deliver a professional, administrative service to the wider HR team. Working as part of a proactive, innovative and responsive team to provide pragmatic, creative and business focused HR solutions and recommendations across the organisation.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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Holidays – 26 days + Bank Holidays
- Training course
- HR support (level 3)
- Hours
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Mon – Thurs 8am – 4:30pm (45 minute lunch break at 12pm)Fri 8am – 2:30pm (45 minute lunch break at 11am).
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 29 September 2025
- 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
- Maintaining and updating HR databases and employee records to ensure accuracy, completeness and integrity of data
- Providing HR reports when required for management and the wider HR team
- Providing a point of contact for all HR service users
- The ability to deliver high levels of administration in a fast-paced environment
- Processing starters, leavers and amendments to terms and conditions of employment
- Writing employee relations letters for the HR team, including but not limited to employment contracts, absence-related meetings, investigations, disciplinaries, grievances and flexible working requests
- Take minutes of formal HR meetings
- Working with OH providers to ensure we are logging all information and keeping GDPR compliant
- Point of contact for all new starters, including sending contracts of employment and arranging inductions
- Administrate the security clearance process
- Recruitment tasks such as drafting job specifications/adverts, shortlisting candidates and sitting in interviews
- Acts with professionalism, empathy and integrity, while understanding and valuing contributions of others
- Ability to multitask and adapt to changing timescales and priorities
- Ability and willingness to improve existing working practice
- Able to demonstrate the ability to take ownership of problem resolution
Where you'll work
Cammell Laird Shipyard
Campbeltown Road
Birkenhead
Wirral
CH41 9BP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WIRRAL METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
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
Level 3 Human Resources apprenticeship standard, including:
- Knowledge,Skills & Behaviours
- Certificate in Human resource practice
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
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
About this employer
Cammell Laird has a clear vision - to build customer success. Cammell Laird’s mission is to capitalise on years of shipbuilding and ship repair experience and engineering strength to better support our customers. Our guiding principle is to put safety at the heart of everything we do – consequently Health and Safety must continue to underpin our collective efforts and the agenda for change.
After this apprenticeship
- Possibility of a full-time position upon successful completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WIRRAL METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000340721.
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Closes in 23 days (Sunday 28 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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