The Westfield Health Group is a provider of health and wellbeing solutions, dedicated to helping individuals, families and businesses live healthier lives. Through Westfield Health, High Five Health Promotions and UK Healthcare, we transform people’s mental and physical wellbeing, creating happier, healthier people and more resilient businesses. Whether that’s mental health support or gym management, health insurance or remote wellbeing webinars, we tailor solutions to organisations, their goals and their people.
Trusted by more than 9,000 clients across the UK and Europe with a 98% retention rate, we draw on over 100 years’ experience and a network of expert partners to help people and businesses be at their healthy, productive best.
About the role
Exciting expansion across Westfield Group has led to a new position for a HR Generalist to support the European arm of our Wellbeing function. As a HR Generalist you will work within the global HR shared services team to support our European wellbeing teams. As the first point of contact for queries you’ll be juggling the HR inbox and providing advisory and administrative tasks. While this is for an initial 6-month fixed term contract there is possibility for extension.
This position will ideally be placed in the Netherlands; however, we can accept UK based applications from candidates with business proficiency in Dutch.
About the role
- Supervise the absenteeism process, as you safeguard and implement the absenteeism policy so that absenteeism is kept to a minimum
- Write and distribute correspondence to colleagues including change of terms, offboarding and training activities.
- Daily monitoring of the HR inbox, providing responses or escalating queries to the right person.
- Support onboarding of new staff by updating and sending offers, contracts and pre-employment paperwork as well as facilitating induction bookings.
- Produce documentation for disciplinary and grievance issues and attend hearings and investigations.
- Use your knowledge to review and recommend improvements to procedures, policies and systems.
- Support payroll when needed.
- Prepare and deliver accurate HR reports on key metrics to support data-driven decision-making.
About you:
- Established experience within a HR team in an advisory role.
- Up to date knowledge of labour law and social legislation and regulations in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
- Understanding of HR processes and workflows with Confident in the use of HRIS systems.
- Proven Customer Service and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise your workload.
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail, displayed through accurate note taking and document generation.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective interaction across all levels of the organisation.
- Strong IT skills, competent in the use of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel and Word.
- Ability to work effectively at an individual level whilst contributing to the performance of a team.
- Fluent in Dutch and English; proficiency in German is a plus.
The Westfield Way
We are passionate about inspiring and empowering our colleagues to be the best we can be. We believe that our people are our strongest asset and by recruiting people that understand and live by our values; The Westfield Way, we aim to continue to provide an excellent experience for our colleagues and customers. Our commitment to creating a workplace where our colleagues feel connected, heard, developed, recognised and supported has been demonstrated by our achievement of the prestigious Investors in People Gold accreditation!
Our co-created Values reflect the ‘way we do things around here’. The Head of People- Wellbeing will be expected to demonstrate these values in all aspects of their role.
- We care
- We’re in it together
- We are explorers
- We own it
Support with your application
We are a committed member of inclusive employers, and we are a disability confident employer. We value inclusivity and want to make sure our application process is open and accessible to all candidates; we're dedicated to providing reasonable adjustments to ensure the recruitment process is as comfortable as possible.If you would like any further information or support, please email [email protected]
