People Professional (Human Resources) Apprentice

Lloyds Banking Group

Bristol (BS1 5LF)

Closes on Tuesday 11 November 2025

Posted on 8 October 2025

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Summary

HR is the team that makes us tick.  Making sure everyone here has what they need to thrive, grow and help Britain prosper. As an HR apprentice, you’ll be in a permanent role from day one - learning on the job, shaping the colleague experience, and studying for your level 5 People Professional qualification

Wage

£26,500 a year

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Training course
People professional (level 5)
Hours
Monday - Friday. Shifts TBC.

35 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 September 2026

Duration

2 years

Positions available

3

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

  • Reward - helping design how we recognise and reward our people.   
  • Talent - finding and growing the best people for every role.  
  • Learning - creating opportunities for colleagues to develop.  
  • Organisational Change - making big transformations happen.  
  • HR Partnering - working with leaders to shape people strategy.  

Where you'll work

Bristol
BS1 5LF

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE COLLEGE

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

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4 - 9)
  • Maths (grade 4 - 9)

A Level in:

  • Any subject (grade C)
  • Any subject (grade C)
  • Any subject (grade 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
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative

About this employer

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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Company benefits

Benefits include: a generous pension contribution of up to 15%; an annual bonus award, subject to Group performance; share schemes; benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping; 22 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

Disability Confident

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

By the end, you won’t just know HR - you’ll be ready to shape it. You’ll have the skills, confidence and qualifications to take your career anywhere. And you’ll have helped make Lloyds Banking Group an even better place to work. 

  • See how HR really works in a major organisation.  
  • Get involved in transformational projects you don’t see in most corporate jobs.  
  • Build transferable skills that will set you up for whatever’s next.  

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE COLLEGE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345611.

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Closes on Tuesday 11 November 2025

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