Deputy People Services Lead
Cornwall Education Learning Trust, St Austell, PL26 7RNThis job expired on 7 June 2026 – see similar jobs
Start date details
On completion of pre-employment checks.
Closing date
7 June 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £50,841.00 - £59,934.00 Annually (Actual)
Deputy People Services Lead job summary
We are seeking to recruit an exceptional Deputy People Service Lead to work closely with the Trust People Services Lead to provide high quality strategic and operational leadership across People Services.
The role will support Headteachers, senior leaders and line managers with all aspects of people management, ensuring practice is legally compliant, values-led, solution-focused and aligned with CELT’s commitment to delivering an exceptional educational experience for every learner.
The Deputy People Services Lead will play a key role in strengthening people systems, supporting effective employee relations, improving workforce processes and ensuring leaders are equipped to manage people confidently, fairly and consistently. The role will also deputise for the Trust People Services Lead when required, providing professional leadership, advice and assurance across the People Services function.
This is a Trust-wide role and regular travel across CELT schools and sites will be required. Although the main Trust offices are currently based in Newquay, there may also be flexibility for the postholder to be based from our St Stephen or St Austell offices.
For more information, please see the attached recruitment pack or contact Recruitment Team at recruitment@celtrust.org
Cornwall Education Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of safer recruitment checks and references including an enhanced DBS check.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Cornwall Education Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all
staff to share this commitment. The postholder is required to follow all of the Trust’s policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding at all
times, and to adhere to the statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. The postholder must take appropriate action in the event
that they have concerns, or are made aware of the concerns of others, regarding the safety or wellbeing of children or young people.
About Cornwall Education Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
As a Trust, we agree that a child needs to feel that they are wanted, loved and valued for exactly who they are, from the beginning. There is no replacement for that and if it’s not right at the start, everything that follows is playing catch up. After that, it is about nurturing the individual genius of each child. Every child is unique and has their own strengths, weaknesses, and passions. It doesn’t matter what these might be; what matters is focusing on what it is they love and giving them the space and time to explore those passions.
We cannot forget that the core business of schools is ensuring that children and young people are able to read, write and be numerate. We also know that whatever the world may look like in the future, there will be a need to instil universal human values. Values-based education empowers schools to emphasise the centrality of all people in society
and focuses on valuing self, others and the environment, underpinning their curriculum with universal positive human values such as respect, justice, equality, integrity, harmony, trust and honesty.
At CELT, we believe that nature is a gift we should try to give to each child so forming a relationship with nature early on is a very powerful thing. Our schools are all situated in unique locations. We want children to grow up
remembering their childhood as a happy, safe place where they connected with Cornwall’s beautiful natural environment.
Young people have their own voice - our role is to hear that voice and offer the space and opportunity for it to grow.
A CELT education gives each child a moral compass and self-leadership, it enables reflection and a code of personal ethics. Our pupils become the Captain of their own ship, which ultimately enables them to navigate their wonderful, individual journeys as custodians of our future.
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