HR Administrator, Maternity Cover
Orchard Hill College Academy Trust, Sutton, SM1 1DA2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 January 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday, throughout the year
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 Year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- Scale 5/6, FTE £32,064 – £36,579 per annum including London Weighting Allowance
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a proactive and organised Human Resources Administrator to join our team on a maternity cover basis. This role provides first-line HR support and comprehensive HR administration across Orchard Hill College (OHC) and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (OHCAT). Acting as a primary point of contact for HR-related queries, the successful candidate will support a wide range of HR operations and work flexibly across all areas of the HR function as required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide end-to-end recruitment administration, including advertising roles, coordinating interviews, issuing offers, liaising with agencies, and ensuring compliance with safer recruitment requirements, Trust policies, and pay frameworks.
- Manage all pre-employment and clearance checks in line with KCSIE and Trust procedures, ensuring staff are fully cleared before starting and escalating any concerns appropriately.
- Prepare and process Staff Notification Forms (SNFs), payroll inputs, contracts, variations, allowances, annual leave calculations, and leaver processes, ensuring accuracy, approvals, and timely payment.
- Maintain accurate HR system records, trackers, and the Single Central Record (SCR); prepare standard HR correspondence; support employee benefits; and assist with HR meetings and documentation.
- Act as a first point of contact for HR queries via shared inboxes, working collaboratively with schools and central teams while maintaining confidentiality, GDPR compliance, and a high-quality HR service.
Key Requirements:
- Proven experience of working within a Human Resources Department.
- Awareness of issues relating to people with learning difficulties and a willingness to work alongside students who may communicate through challenging behaviour.
- Demonstrable experience of maintaining accurate manual and electronic records.
- Possess of a minimum of CIPD level 3 qualification (or equivalent).
- Willingness to travel to other sites across all OHC&AT locations on an ad-hoc basis.
What the school offers its staff
OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:
Rewards & Benefits:
- Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
- Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)
- Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
- Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
- Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
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.
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About Orchard Hill College Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- NWei@orchardhill.ac.uk
Orchard Hill College (the College) and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (the Trust) together form Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a family of specialist education providers for pupils and students from nursery to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. As an Outstanding provider (Ofsted 2019) and Academy sponsor, Orchard Hill College has a strong track record for making a positive impact within the local communities it serves.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
Our ambition is to contribute further to improving the education offer for all pupils and students in our communities, including those with SEND. The College offers specialist educational programmes for students aged 16 and over in College centres and satellite provision in London and the South. The Academy Trust enables us to build on and extend scope of our work in these geographical areas, so that Academy pupils can also benefit from our expertise and access a greater range of opportunities arising from our strong community and stakeholder networks.
Supporting our College and Academies, OHC&AT also operates a range of services and support including Quality and Standards, Learning Support and Business Support.
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