HR Administrator
The Bishop of Winchester Academy, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 9PW22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
February 2025
Closing date
12 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 December 2024
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
- £27,723.00 Annually (FTE) 37 hours per week, 52 weeks
HR Administrator job summary
We wish to appoint an HR Administrator to join our HR team to play an instrumental role in providing high-quality HR support for our employees and to contribute to the success of the Academy.
This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive and capable individual with a proven background in HR administration to work closely with our Director of People to develop the academy’s HR provision.
You will have strong organisational skills and be able to communicate effectively with all members of our Academy community, building constructive working relationships to deliver excellent customer service.
The successful candidate will be self-motivated, able to multi-task and will have a good working knowledge of core people processes associated with the employee lifecycle.
The successful candidate will:
Be driven to deliver and develop good HR practice in a fast- paced educational setting
Be educated to A Level or above or have equivalent experience
Have at least 2 years’ experience of supporting a Human Resources team
Ideally have a NVQ level 3 or CIPD level 3 or equivalent in an administration, business or HR related subject
Have an attention to detail and accuracy in administration with experience in the use of IT packages such as HR systems, databases, MS Teams, Word, and Excel.
Be customer-focused
Have excellent communication skills and a positive attitude
Demonstrate discretion and sensitivity as you will be handling personal data and confidential information.
Your responsibilities will include:
Undertaking all administration for HR matters of staff, including recruitment and payroll
Assisting with first line HR queries and support
Recording and monitoring staff absence and maintaining documentation
Maintenance of staff records and reporting data from the school MIS
Coordinating the recruitment and on-boarding process, producing adverts and liaising with candidates
We will also offer an excellent package:
A competitive salary of £27,723 per annum (FTE)
23 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
Enrolment into the LGPS – one of the most generous pension schemes in the UK
Access to continuous professional development opportunities
Strong travel links and staff parking
Close proximity to beaches, supermarkets and coffee shops
A range of wellbeing benefits including free breakfast, soup at lunch, social events, employee assistance programme and Cycle to work scheme
You are warmly encouraged to get in touch prior to application to discuss the position. Our Director of People, Catherine Watson is available to have an informal discussion with interested applicants about the role. Please contact her at catherine.watson@TBOWA.org. You are also most welcome to visit our Academy
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. An enhanced DBS check is also required for all successful applicants. Please be aware that due to the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ legislation we do not accept CVs. We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we have received applications that meet the criteria.
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 are not accepted.
About The Bishop of Winchester Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1148 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, commended by Ofsted for its ‘inclusive approach, which seeks to support all pupils’. Led by a dedicated team with ‘strong moral and ethical foundation[s]’, our shared mission for ‘improving the life chances of all [our] pupils is at the very centre of [our] work’ (Ofsted, 2017).
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