Employee Relations Officer

Pebble Brook School, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8LZ

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  1 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  17 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £20,191.65 - £21,757.95 Annually (Actual) Bucks Pay Range 5 (FTE £34,319 to £36,975 pro rata) Term time plus one week

Employee Relations Officer job summary

Join Our Team

Are you an organised, friendly and hardworking administrator looking for a role where your skills genuinely make a difference each day? Pebble Brook School is looking for a dedicated and caring individual to join our supportive office team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play an important part in helping our school run smoothly while supporting pupils, families and staff.

What We Offer

At Pebble Brook School, you’ll find a supportive, forward-thinking environment where your wellbeing and professional development are prioritised. We value every member of our team and invest in their growth. This is a 25-hour per week, office-based role. The 25 hours may be worked over 3 to 5 days per week, with working days and hours agreed flexibly to meet both business and employee needs. The total contracted hours will remain at 25 hours per week and are fixed.

The Person

We are looking for someone who shares our commitment to empathy, understanding, and high standards. You’ll be joining a team where your voice matters and your growth is encouraged.

Job Summary

Working in an education setting the primary focus of this role is to provide employee relations support across the whole school, maintain a thorough understanding of the school's employment policies, procedures, and relevant employment legislation, with the ability to confidently interpret, apply, and clearly articulate policy requirements during employee relations meetings, consultations, and discussions with staff and managers ensuring positive workplace relationships, employment law compliance, and fair people practices and procedures. The role focuses on employee relations matters rather than People Operations functions.

This role is placed in the Operations Office Team reporting to the People Operations Lead. This role will be required to work closely with the People & Operations Administrator, provide professional administration, safeguarding and support to the Senior Leadership with the administration of the policies, processes and organising of the processes needed to support the school staff on daily basis.

For further information please read the full job description and person specification included.

Safeguarding

Pebble Brook follows Buckinghamshire Council guidelines for safer recruitment. This position will be subject to safer recruitment checks, Social Media checks and the successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. We welcome applications regardless of ability, gender, ethnicity or religion.

Please complete the Self-Declaration form included with the attached documents and submit with your application.

This school is fully committed to safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people in all aspects of its work, including recruitment, and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education Safe in Education 2025 online searches will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates. The search is not part of the shortlisting process itself, and candidates will have a chance to address any issues of concern that come up during the search at interview

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and convictions cautions
• All adult cautions and spent convictions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2020). For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro Guidance the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) guidance or Ministry of Justice (MOJ) guidance (see in particular, the section titled 'Exceptions Order').

Its and offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a self-disclosure form and return prior to interview. Pebble Brook School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced Data & Barring Service check will be required from the successful candidate.

Interviews: Confirmed on application

This advert may close early if a suitable candidate is found.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Pebble Brook School

• Organisation type: Special school, ages 11 to 19
• Size: 180 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Pebble Brook School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/pebble-brook-school

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