HR Adviser
Marlwood School, Bristol, BS35 3LA10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
14 November 2025
Closing date
24 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 November 2025
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
- From £36,363 (CSET7)
HR Adviser job summary
Job title: HR Advisor
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37 per week, all year round
Location: Partnership Centre, based at Marlwood School with travel across trust schools required
Salary: CSET 7, starting at £36,363
We’re looking for an experienced and proactive HR Advisor to join our dynamic HR Partnering Team, who can have real impact across our schools.
About the role
Working closely with our HR Business Partners, Headteachers and other Senior Leaders across both Trusts, you’ll provide expert advice and hands-on support across a wide range of employee relations and people matters. You’ll help our schools navigate HR issues with confidence, ensuring a consistent, fair and people-focused approach.
This is a varied and fast-paced role where no two days are the same. You’ll use your professional HR expertise, sound judgment and problem-solving skills to shape proactive solutions that work in practice – not just on paper. You’ll also play a part in delivering Trust-wide HR projects and initiatives that strengthen our culture and support our staff to thrive.
About you
You’ll be CIPD Level 3 qualified (or working towards) with proven experience as an HR Advisor, particularly in employee relations. You'll bring:
- Up-to-date knowledge of HR policies, employment law, and GDPR compliance
- Experience advising on pay, terms, and conditions of employment
- A track record of resolving employee relations cases with clear, outcome-focused strategies
- Ability to support both transactional and strategic HR activities
- Strong collaboration skills, building credibility and trust across all levels
- Excellent written and verbal communication, handling sensitive matters with professionalism
- Effective organisational and time management skills, with attention to detail under pressure
- Problem-solving ability and sound, evidence-based decision-making
- Confidence working independently while contributing positively to a team
If you’re looking for a role where your HR skills can make a visible difference, where collaboration and innovation are encouraged, and where you’ll help create great places to work and learn – we’d love to hear from you.
About us
Castle School Education Trust (CSET) is a vibrant family of schools united by one powerful ambition: to deliver a great education for every child.
Spanning four secondary and five primary schools across South Gloucestershire, we’re proud of our strong track record in school improvement, rising pupil numbers, and consistently improving outcomes. Each of our schools has a distinct identity shaped by the community it serves—and we celebrate that uniqueness while sharing expertise, resources, and support across the Trust.
You will be joining us at an exciting time, as we work collaboratively with eleven schools from TPLT in North Somerset, with an aim to join to form Pathway Trust in the future.
We can offer you:
- Commitment to CPD and development of all staff including collaborative support and instructional coaching to allow employees to thrive
- Commitment to inclusivity and fostering of diversity
- Values and vision that are lived not laminated
- Open and honest culture
- Local Government pension with up to 19% Employer contributions
- Up to 30% discount with Microsoft & Dell
- Discounted gym membership
- Life Assurance - 3 x Death in Service
- Cycle to work scheme
- Dedicated counselling service
In order to apply for this role please complete an application form by Monday 24th November 2025. Interviews are due to take place on Tuesday 2nd December 2025. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the process.
Please know that depending on the number of applications received we may decide to close the advert early. If you do not hear from us by a week after the closing date then please assume that you have not been shortlisted for an interview.
Join us in Providing a Great Education for Every Child
CSET is committed to equal opportunities and encourages applicants from all backgrounds and communities, as we recognise the importance and benefit this has for our pupils.
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
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 Marlwood School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- Up to 1365 pupils
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
School location
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