Head of HR

Attenborough Learning Trust, Leicester, LE2 0UU

27 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  2 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  6 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Full Time Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Competitive salary
• Additional allowances:

  LGPS Pension Scheme

What skills and experience we're looking for

You will be able to demonstrate your enthusiasm, drive and determination to make a difference and how you will engage with our ethos and culture. You will be able to provide examples of how you have developed working as part of a highly motivated leadership team and how you have provided a practical, hands on, solution-based approach to your previous roles.

You will hold a minimum CIPD level 7 Chartered Membership and time served working at a senior management level within HR, demonstrating an ability to develop and carry out HR strategies that support an organisation’s business plan.You will most likely be an HR generalist with a broad knowledge base across the employee lifecycle and with a sound knowledge of all aspects of people and case management and employment legislation. You will be articulate, approachable and able to develop valued and effective business relationships.

What the school offers its staff

This exciting role requires a forward-looking professional with significant strategic HR expertise, who is able to support the overall growth of the trust in line with the business plan, maintaining our strong ethos and culture.Previous education experience is less important to us than drive, determination, and a strong desire to help and support the trust and its school leaders.

This is a senior appointment sitting within the trust’s executive team providing professional and proactive HR services to all schools within the trust.The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape the role, making it their own, working closely with our senior leaders to make a significant impact on our organisation. We offer a vibrant work environment that encourages personal and professional growth. We are committed to diversity and inclusion, ensuring that every team member feels valued and respected.

Flexible working opportunities

Hybrid working is not available, other than during school holidays

Further details about the role

Are you highly driven, ambitious and willing to play a key role within our central executive team?

Are you a people-focussed HR professional with significant strategic HR expertise?Do you want to make a difference to children’s lives and improve their future chances?

Are you a leader with the ability to innovate and solve fast moving problems?

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to info@attenboroughlearningtrust.org.uk

CVs are not accepted.

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.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Trust Head of HR Flyer[7].pdf - 454 KB (opens in new tab)

Head of HR Pack FINAL[6].pdf - 2.2 MB (opens in new tab)

About Attenborough Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Attenborough Learning Trust website
• Email address: info@attenboroughlearningtrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/attenborough-learning-trust

Attenborough Learning Trust was set up in 2019 as a primary phase trust based in Leicester founded collaboratively on a strong ethos and moral purpose to support others, so that young people are enabled to achieve their very best. We believe that working closely together with our staff, children and communities will have the most positive impact on the life of every pupil. Each school's individual character is valued and the trust's relationships throughout the partnership are characterised by mutual respect, openness and a commitment to the core purpose of the Trust.
We live our key values of "Unity through Autonomy" - Excellence, Integrity and Diversity.

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