HR and Payroll Administrator

Extend Learning Academies Network, Weston-Super-Mare, BS24 8BH

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  13 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: 15600

HR and Payroll Administrator job summary

Hours: 25 hours per week, term time plus 25 inset hours per academic year

Actual Salary: £15,600 per annum

Interview date: Thursday 17 or Friday 18 July 2025

Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract with the potential to be extended

We are a values-driven Multi-Academy Trust committed to delivering excellence in education. We’re looking to appoint a reliable and detail-focused HR & Payroll Administrator to join our well-established team.

You will be responsible for providing day-to-day HR and payroll administration across the Trust, ensuring accuracy, confidentiality, and compliance at all times. Your role will support the employee lifecycle—from onboarding to payroll processing and leaver administration.

Based within our busy central team, you will already have administrative experience with excellent organisational skills with a high level of attention to detail. You will be able to work calmly under pressure, demonstrate flexibility, initiative and a proactive approach and have successfully managed a varied workload. The ability to handle confidential data in a professional manner is paramount.

You will have strong IT skills including Excel and Microsoft teams, specific systems training will be provided.

The successful candidate will possess a positive can-do attitude with the ability to provide excellent customer service and who is keen to develop their HR & Payroll skillset. Experience of working within an education environment is useful but not essential.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

• Updating the payroll system of contractual staffing changes, monthly payroll amendments and staff absence.
• Administration for the recruitment processes, including preparing, publishing job adverts and compliance checks
• Maintaining accurate HR records and databases
• First point of call for handling staff queries
• Assisting with reporting, audits, and policy implementation
• General administrative duties including preparation of employment letters and contracts.
• Supporting and contributing towards general HR & Payroll department activities as required.

Please review the full job description and person specification prior to application.

Internal applications – This is great opportunity for a secondment for internal applicants. If any current ELAN employee wish to apply for this role, you can do so via an expression of interest form which can be found on the staff portal, recruitment page, in the recruiting forms folder and email to HR.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

We are helping you take care of your future with a pension contribution well above average.

We are helping you take care of your family, by offering five paid care days (on a pro rata basis). For more information about all of our benefits, please visit our benefits page.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone is valued and respected. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities. Our goal is to ensure that every pupil and staff member feels included and supported, encouraging a community where everyone can thrive together.

We provide quality, ongoing professional development and network opportunities, and clear pathways for career growth, enabling you to learn new skills and enhance your practice.

This role is exempt from the Reoffenders Act 1974 (ROA)

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Extend Learning Academies Network

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/extend-learning-academies-network

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