HR Assistant

Woodlands School, Basildon, Essex, SS16 5BA

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  5 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  27 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,972.71 - £19,883.95 Annually (FTE) Scale 5, Point 9 (range 9 to 12) - 30 hpw, 38 wpy (term time only)

HR Assistant job summary

Are you seeking a new professional challenge in an innovative, well supported environment? Are you a lifelong learner looking to model high aspirations and excellence to the community you serve? Are you relentless in your mission to improve and keen to support and challenge students and staff alike to become the best they can be? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join us in our demanding mission to offer a first-class provision for our school community by raising Aspirations, instilling Resilience, creating Opportunities and securing both academic and personal Excellence. We are seeking a hardworking, committed individual to join us in our journey as together, we can change lives!

We are seeking to appoint a proactive and detail orientated HR Assistant to provide essential administrative support within a busy secondary school. In this role you will work closely with the Headteacher and HR & Finance Manager to provide essential support to ensure the smooth operation of HR functions. The ideal candidate will have strong organisational skills, excellent communication skills and be able to deal with sensitive information with discretion.

The post is offered for 30 hours a week for term time only (38 weeks per year), hours are negotiable for the right candidate.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in this commitment.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in this commitment.

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 Woodlands School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1492 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Woodlands School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/woodlands-school

Aspiration, Resilience, Opportunity, Excellence, is our ethos. These four pillars underpin all we do and drive us forward as one inclusive learning community.
We have the privilege to be able to teach and learn, as an 11-16 Academy, in a £26 million building. Woodlands School is proud to serve the people of Basildon and we are constantly striving to be better. We are focused on ensuring academic excellence for all our youngsters, allowing them the opportunity to thrive at further and higher education.

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