HR administrator
The Diocese Of Canterbury Academies Trust, Canterbury, CT1 1NQ53 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
7 September 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 July 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
- £33,059.00 Annually (FTE) Actual annual salary £ 29821.13
HR administrator job summary
Aquila, The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Trust are seeking an organised and proactive HR Administration Assistant to join our growing Multi Academy Trust, supporting 17 schools across our trust. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with HR administration experience, preferably in the education sector, who is passionate about delivering a high-quality people service.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records and HR data.
- Provide administrative support across the full employee lifecycle, including:
- Recruitment and selection processes
- Onboarding and induction
- Contractual changes
- Leavers and terminations
- Liaise closely with Finance and Payroll colleagues to ensure staffing budgets, payroll records, and personnel changes are processed accurately and efficiently.
- Support the delivery of staff training and development activities.
- Assist with HR projects and initiatives aimed at continuously improving the HR service across the Trust.
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation, safeguarding requirements, and Trust policies.
Maintain and regularly update the Trust’s Single Central Record (SCR), ensuring all safeguarding, vetting and pre-employment checks are accurately recorded and comply with statutory requirements
About You
The successful candidate will:
- Have previous HR administration experience.
- Possess excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Be confident managing sensitive and confidential information.
- Have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Be able to prioritise workloads and work effectively in a busy environment.
- Be proficient in Microsoft Office applications and HR systems.
- Have a proactive approach and a commitment to delivering excellent customer service.
Desirable
- Experience working within the education sector.
- Knowledge of HR processes within schools or Multi Academy Trusts.
- Experience of maintaining a Single Central Record (SCR) and knowledge of safer recruitment and safeguarding compliance requirements.
About Us
We are a growing Multi Academy Trust comprising 17 schools, committed to providing exceptional educational opportunities for our pupils and a supportive environment for our staff. As part of our dedicated central team, you will play a key role in ensuring our HR service continues to evolve and meet the needs of our schools.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation and contribute to the ongoing development of our people services.
Aquila, The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to follow the relevant safeguarding procedures, including Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE) guidance, and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
We encourage early applications and reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Trust 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 keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment are 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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Diocese Of Canterbury Academies Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Trust is an established and highly successful Multi-Academy Trust currently consisting of primary schools and expecting to grow over the coming years.
The Trust offers:
• outstanding mentoring and coaching
• full induction programme for all new staff
• excellent professional development opportunities
• an enviable track record of career progression
• collaborative working in a supportive team environment
We are committed to ensuring our academies work together, sharing their strengths, to provide a great education for every pupil. We believe learning must be engaging and relevant and develop the whole child. Our academies design their coverage of the curriculum to provide challenging and exciting learning experiences in a caring and nurturing environment which is based on our strong values. Our academies value every individual and celebrate differences through their culture of mutual trust and shared values.
We want to deliver and develop best practice through learning together and engaging with action research with Canterbury Christ Church University. We want our academies to serve their local communities through links with churches, each other and to develop wider networks enabling staff and pupils to flourish. Through developing leadership at all levels we want the pupils in our academies to become happy, successful, well rounded individuals who develop into lifelong learners.
We have an English Hub, Behaviour Hub and Associate Research School within our MAT and Aquila is a lead MAT for behaviour.
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