HR Advisor
The Mercian Trust, Walsall, WS1 2PGThis job expired on 16 February 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
16 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 Hours. Location: Hybrid (a range of office, academy & home-working as agreed with your line manager)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 8 (SCP 26-31) Actual Salary £36,124 - £40,476
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking an experienced and driven HR Advisor who is able to support the initiatives within the Trust HR Central Services Team. This is a generalist role, for someone looking to advance their current HR expertise and is looking for a new challenge. You will be required to provide a professional advisory service, including recruitment, employee relations, staff welfare and aid with project development to improve service delivery. You will work closely with Senior Leaders across the Trust and aid with meeting the departments strategic objectives.
What the school offers its staff
About the Mercian Trust
The Mercian Trust was incorporated in January 2018 and governs nine secondary schools, including selective grammar schools, large comprehensives, an alternative provision free school and a studio school. Six of the Trust’s schools are located in Walsall: Queen Mary’s High School, Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall Studio School, The Ladder School, Aldridge School, and Shire Oak Academy. Three of our schools; Q3 Tipton, Q3 Langley and Q3 Great Barr, are located in Sandwell.
Trust ethos & values
Our name is rooted in history and expresses a geographical identity and ambition. The ancient kingdom of Mercia encompassed much of what we now recognise as the West Midlands – and crucially for us it included what we now call the Black Country. It was in Mercia that St Chad established an association of small monasteries which fostered unity through bonds of kinship.
Now, a thousand years later, we look to demonstrate the same spirit in our approach. We are a family of schools committed to each other – diverse in nature, proud custodians of our history and success, but together, one charitable Trust with a common purpose.
Our Trust exists to equip our students to live life to the full.
Our mission is increasing opportunities andimproving outcomes to enable our students to:
- Realise their potential
- Thrive in the world of work
- Make a positive contribution to the local, national and international community.
Our values are:
- Excellence and Rigour
- Challenge and Support
- Safety and Wellbeing
- Acceptance and Applause
Mission Statement:https://www.themerciantrust.org/#our_mission
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.
Flexible working opportunities
Hybrid (a range of office, academy & home-working as agreed with your line manager)
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Mercian Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- The Mercian Trust website
- Email address
- lara.bridgett@merciantrust.org.uk
The Mercian Trust is one of the largest regional Trusts in the West Midlands with 9 schools and more than 9,600 students.
We are growing in size and influence, and we are committed to driving social mobility for all our students in the communities we serve through increasing opportunities and improving outcomes. We have stated our commitment to becoming and employer of choice, for leaders, teachers, student support staff and our business professional services staff in whichever school or central team they work.
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