HR Apprentice

HR Apprentice – Build Your Career in HR with Dandara

Location:

Milton Keynes Programme:
Structured HR Apprenticeship with Rotational Development

Start your HR career with real experience, real responsibility and a recognised qualification.

Are you ambitious, curious and looking for a career where you can work with people, solve problems and make a genuine impact on a business?

At Dandara, we’re offering an exciting opportunity to join our Group HR team as an HR Apprentice. You don't need previous HR experience – we're looking for someone with the potential, attitude and drive to build a successful long-term career in Human Resources.

This isn't an apprenticeship where you'll spend all your time doing basic administration. You'll follow a structured rotational development programme, gaining hands‑on experience across the key areas of a modern HR function while working towards a recognised HR apprenticeship qualification. This role will be aligned with the Level 3 HR Support apprenticeship.

You’ll experience HR Operations, Recruitment & Resourcing, Learning & Development, Reward and HR Business Partnering, giving you the opportunity to discover where your strengths and interests could take you.

You’ll learn how HR supports employees throughout their career with Dandara, from joining the business through to promotions, contractual changes and eventually leaving.

• Offers, contracts and onboarding
• Employee records and HR systems
• Absence, family leave and probation
• HR reporting and people data
• HR policies and procedures
• Confidentiality, compliance and data protection

You’ll quickly understand why accuracy and attention to detail really matter when you’re dealing with people’s careers and personal information.

Working alongside our Recruitment team, you’ll see how we attract and hire talented people across Dandara.

• Advertising vacancies and attracting candidates
• Our Teamtailor recruitment system
• Candidate screening and selection
• Interviews and assessment
• Recruitment campaigns
• Candidate experience
• Recruitment data and reporting
• Understanding recruitment costs and agency spend

As your confidence and capability develop, you’ll have opportunities to become more actively involved in interviews and recruitment activities.

You’ll see how Dandara develops its people and prepares future leaders.

• Coordinating training and development
• Leadership development
• Early careers programmes
• Career pathways
• Succession and talent planning
• Our Kallidus learning platform
• Measuring the effectiveness of learning

You’ll learn how developing people’s skills can directly improve business performance.

As you progress through the programme, you’ll gain exposure to the more advisory and commercial side of HR.

• Employee relations
• Performance and attendance
• Organisational change
• Workforce planning
• Employment policies and principles
• Advising and supporting managers
• Using judgement to solve people‑related problems

You’ll also gain exposure to Reward, Benefits and Payroll, helping you understand how the different elements of HR fit together.

We’re not looking for someone who already knows everything about HR. We’ll teach you that.

We’re looking for someone with the potential to learn quickly and the ambition to make something of the opportunity.

• Genuinely interested in developing a professional career in HR
• Ambitious, motivated and keen to progress
• Curious – someone who wants to understand why, not just what
• Confident enough to ask questions and contribute ideas
• Resilient and able to learn from feedback and…