HR Administration and Recruitment Lead
The Mercian Trust, Walsall, WS1 2PG11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 August 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 Hours per week, All year round
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 10 (SCP 34-39) £43,693 - £48,719
What skills and experience we're looking for
Role: HR Administration & Recruitment Lead
Salary: Starting salary £43,693 (pay award pending)
Location: Primary place of work- The Rock Centre, Walsall with hybrid working at other Trust offices, schools and home working to suit the needs of our schools and our Trust and ensure effective and efficient delivery of a centralised HR Service.
Closing Date: Friday 22nd August 2025
Interviews: W/C 8th September 2025
Are you a people-focused HR professional ready to lead and innovate? The Mercian Trust is seeking a dynamic HR Administration and Recruitment Lead to drive forward our centralised HR service. This is a new role in our growing team and, offering the opportunity to shape recruitment and retention strategies across our Trust and lead a dedicated HR Administration Team.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and develop the HR Administration Team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Oversee end-to-end recruitment and onboarding processes, ensuring compliance with Keeping Children Safe in Education and employment legislation.
- Provide expert HR advice to school and Trust leaders on recruitment, retention, and onboarding.
- Develop and implement HR systems, data reporting, and people management solutions.
- Contribute to Trust-wide projects and initiatives that enhance organisational development and HR service delivery.
- Improve data-driven decision-making by refining HR processes and reporting tools.
What We’re Looking For:
- CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent) and a strong track record in HR leadership.
- Experience in recruitment, onboarding, and HR compliance—ideally within an educational or regulated setting
- Strong interpersonal, coaching, and communication skills.
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach with a commitment to safeguarding and data protection.
Full details of the role and what you will need to be successful can be found in the job description and person specification.
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring
Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.
Why Join Us?
You’ll be part of a forward-thinking Trust committed to professional development, inclusion, and excellence in education. We offer a supportive team environment, and the chance to make a real impact.
About the Mercian Trust
The Mercian Trust is a Multi Academy Trust of twelve schools and over 10,000 students in Walsall and Sandwell. Often referred to as the most diverse family of schools in the country, the Trust comprises of two selective grammar schools, five large comprehensive secondary schools, one primary school, one all-through special school, one technical and vocational Studio School, and two Alternative Provision schools.
Trust ethos & values
Our name is rooted in history and expresses a geographical identity and ambition. The ancient kingdom of Mercia encompassed much of what we now recognise as the West Midlands – and crucially for us it included what we now call the Black Country. It was in Mercia that St Chad established an association of small monasteries which fostered unity through bonds of kinship.
Now, a thousand years later, we look to demonstrate the same spirit in our approach. We are a family of schools committed to each other – diverse in nature, proud custodians of our history and success, but together, one charitable Trust with a common purpose.
Our Trust exists to equip our students to live life to the full.
Our mission isincreasing opportunities andimproving outcomes to enable our students to:
- Realise their potential
- Thrive in the world of work
- Make a positive contribution to the local, national and international community.
Our values are:
- Excellence and Rigour
- Challenge and Support
- Safety and Wellbeing
- Acceptance and Applause
Mission Statement: https://www.themerciantrust.org/#our_mission
What the school offers its staff
Why Join Us?
You’ll be part of a forward-thinking Trust committed to professional development, inclusion, and excellence in education. We offer a supportive team environment, and the chance to make a real impact.
Further information about the job
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
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About The Mercian Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- The Mercian Trust website
- Email address
- lara.bridgett@merciantrust.org.uk
The Mercian Trust is one of the largest regional Trusts in the West Midlands with 9 schools and more than 9,600 students.
We are growing in size and influence, and we are committed to driving social mobility for all our students in the communities we serve through increasing opportunities and improving outcomes. We have stated our commitment to becoming and employer of choice, for leaders, teachers, student support staff and our business professional services staff in whichever school or central team they work.
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