HR Adviser

Wandle Learning Trust, London, SW11 5DT

31 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  12 January 2026 at 11am

• Date listed

  12 December 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: £47,900.00 - £51,200.00 Annually (Actual)

HR Adviser job summary

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality HR support and driving best practice across a dynamic, multi-site organisation? Wandle Learning Trust is seeking an experienced HR professional to join our central team and play a key role in supporting our schools and services.

About the Role

As HR Adviser, you will:

• Support school/service based HR Leads with systems, processes, and compliance.
• Manage and oversee recruitment and onboarding, ensuring compliance with safeguarding and statutory requirements.
• Maintain accurate employee records, including payroll changes and the Single Central Record.
• Provide professional HR advice and guidance to school leaders and HR teams across the Trust.
• Contribute to policy development, project work, and implementation of the Trust’s HR strategy.

What We’re Looking For

• CIPD Level 3 (essential); Level 5 (desirable).
• Strong experience in HR administration and advisory work, ideally within education or a multi-site organisation.
• Excellent knowledge of UK employment legislation and HR best practice.
• Skilled in HR systems and Microsoft Office, with exceptional attention to detail.
• A proactive, organised team player with outstanding communication skills and a commitment to safeguarding and equality.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a collaborative and supportive HR team.
• Opportunity to shape the HR service as it develops to meet the growth of the Trust.
• Work in an organisation that values diversity, inclusion, and professional development.

Wandle Learning Trust, a growing Multi Academy Trust based in South London, currently comprising of two secondary schools and eight primary schools. The Trust also runs the Wandle Learning Partnership, which oversees our English, Maths and Teaching DfE Hubs, as well as our sector leading phonics programme, Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised.

Closing Date: 12th January 2026 at 12pm

Interviews: 16th January 2026

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and a Children’s Barred List check.

The Wandle Learning Trust values the diversity of our students and is proud to inspire them through representative teaching and support staff. We aim to select all staff on merit, irrespective of race, sex, disability, age, gender reassignment, sexuality or other protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

The Academy welcomes applications from disabled candidates. If you have a disability, please indicate any adjustments we might make when applying in order to ensure that the shortlisting process is fair and meets your needs.

CVs are not accepted.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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.

About Wandle Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Wandle Learning Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wandle-learning-trust

We are a Multi Academy Trust based in South London. The Trust also runs the Wandle Learning Partnership which is the Trust’s teacher and curriculum development arm. We provide strategic and operational support to our English, Maths and Teaching School Hub, as well as to our not-for-profit phonics programme, Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. We also offer school-to-school support and have our own menu of CPD, and events linked to local needs.

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