CAROLE BRADBOURNE

Experience

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  Yorkshire Television

  Mar 1983 - Apr 2001

  Personnel/Benefits Officer

  I dealt with all aspects of recruitment & selection across 4 TV stations (Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and London); inducted new starters; drafted policies & procedures; provided statistical reports for senior management and the Board; advised management and staff with regard to employment issues; developed the Yorkshire TV Communication Group (European Works Council); managed sickness absence; and was responsible for all benefit administration (pensions, company cars, life assurance, BUPA, childcare vouchers, maternity, salary security plan, sharesave, profit related pay scheme, pensions). Show less

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  Arla Foods

  Apr 2001 - Apr 2004

  Secretary to Head of HR

  Following the death of my partner I returned to a secretarial role (albeit within an HR department) for a while.Duties were the normal secretarial ones - typing, minuting meetings, inputting data onto the HR database, attending TU meetings, intercepting telephone calls, managing diaries, making travel and accommodation bookings, etc.

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  John Peters (Furnishings) Ltd

  Aug 2004 - Jul 2007

  HR and Health & Safety Officer

  In a stand-alone generalist role with a retail furniture company I successfully introduced and integrated HR and Health & Safety into the business across 13 stores and 2 warehouses across Yorkshire and Humberside. Reason for leaving – made redundant when the company went into administration.

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  Bradford Grammar School

  Aug 2007 - Nov 2016

  HR Manager

  Headed up the HR department and my duties included:• Providing employment relations advice & support to all areas.• Ensuring quality recruitment & selection processes tailored appropriately • Overseeing the production of all contractual and employment related documentation, electronic and paper personnel records and Single Central Register. • Developing an HR management and development strategy incorporating key areas such as talent attraction and selection, pre-employment screening, induction, performance management, reward & recognition, employee relations, learning and development, talent management and succession planning • Undertaking HR specific project work.• Working collaboratively with managers to ensure that the HR processes followed across the wider organisation and staffing levels aligned with the needs of the business.• Ensuring safer recruitment processes adhered to and child protection training undertaken in order to be compliant with safeguarding.• Preparing HR metrics and reporting these in to the Governing Body.• Advising on such issues as employee benefits, family friendly rights, industrial relations matters, redundancies and dismissals.• Implementing and monitoring absence management strategies, providing managers with guidance in respect of target setting and capability/disciplinary processes.• Case management of all employee relations issues and long term sickness absences.• Updating and developing HR policies, ensuring compliance with current employment law• Managing a recruitment and training budget of c£100k.• Making recommendations to the SLT for the overall annual salary budget (having conducted benchmarking and equal pay audits across the organisation). Show less

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  Provident Financial Group - Provident HC & Satsuma

  Jan 2017 - Nov 2018

  HR

  My duties included advising managers, updating and drafting policies for the UK & Ireland, employee relations, absence management, and recruitment.

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  St Mary’s Horsforth Voluntary Academy

  Jan 2019 - Aug 2019

  Office Manager
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  Greenhead College

  Sept 2019 - Dec 2019

  Interim HR Manager
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  HORSFORTH SCHOOL

  Sept 2020 - Aug 2021

  Human Resources Manager
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  Lighthouse School

  Sept 2021 - now

  Human Resources Business Partner