Position: HR and Admin Assistant Employment Type: Temporary (approximately 3 months, rolling contract) Location: Fully on-site in Milton Keynes Hourly Rate: £14 per hour Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week About the Role: Macildowie Recruitment is delighted to be recruiting for the position of HR and Admin Assistant on behalf of our client in Milton Keynes. This temporary role is perfect for a detail-oriented and highly organised professional with previous experience in HR. Key Responsibilities: As an HR Assistant, you will support the HR Manager in delivering effective administrative and HR services across the trust. Your responsibilities will include: Recruitment and Onboarding: Assisting with job descriptions, advertising vacancies, preparing for interviews, and processing new hires (DBS checks, references, contracts, and occupational health referrals). HR Administration: Maintaining HR and personnel records, managing terminations, promotions, and transfers, and ensuring accurate payroll and salary calculations. Compliance: Keeping employee databases (e.g., SIMS) up-to-date, managing the Single Central Record, and ensuring compliance with current legislation and policies. Employee Support: Addressing payroll, contract, and HMRC queries, maintaining staff training records, and liaising with HR, pension, and payroll providers. The successful candidate will have previous experience in a similar HR administrative role, exceptional organisational skills, and the ability to handle sensitive information with professionalism and discretion. Familiarity with HR systems and databases would be an advantage. Please put your home postcode on your CV when applying. Our recruitment tech uses this to make sure your CV is reviewed by the relevant consultant, for the relevant job(s), in the relevant geography. Macildowie are a recruitment business working on behalf of a client to recruit this role. Your personal data may be forwarded to that client company as part of the application process. If you would like information on how we will process your data please go to our website (macildowie.com) and view our fair processing notices which are located at the bottom of the page under privacy policies. Within the fair processing notice for Candidates there is guidance on how to amend your contact preferences or exercise your rights relating to personal data. We can't provide direct links as email address and website urls within our job adverts are removed by some of the websites on which we advertise. Macildowie is a specialist recruitment consultancy with a rich history of enhancing the careers of professionals across the Midlands and the Northern Home Counties. We have an unrivalled understanding of the local market place and recruit for the majority of the region's premier employers. To search for all of our live jobs please visit us at macildowie.com.