HR Business Partner
The Shaw Education Trust, Stoke-On-Trent, ST7 4DL14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
23 June 2026
Closing date
7 July 2026 at 9am
Date listed
23 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- G10 SCP 40-44, £45,029 - £49,282-Pay Award Pening
HR Business Partner job summary
We are seeking an experienced, confident, and proactive HR Business Partner to join our People Team on a maternity cover fixed-term contract, supporting a cluster of academies within our 31-school Trust.
We welcome applications from candidates interested in term-time working.
This is a rewarding role for a strong HR practitioner who thrives in a fast-paced, unionised environment and enjoys working closely with senior leaders to shape and deliver effective people solutions.
As HR Business Partner, reporting into the HR Director, you will work in true partnership with Trust Leaders, Headteachers, School Leaders, and HR colleagues to develop and deliver HR plans aligned to our organisational and People strategies. You will provide a first-class, pragmatic HR service, supporting leaders across the full employee lifecycle and acting as a trusted advisor on complex people matters, including:
- Employee relations investigations and case management
- TUPE processes and organisational restructures
- Grievance and disciplinary hearings
- Coaching and advising leaders through change
You will bring:
- Proven experience as an HR Business Partner or in a senior HR advisory role
- Strong generalist HR knowledge with confidence handling complex ER matters
- Experience working in a unionised environment (education sector experience desirable)
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence at senior level
- The ability to manage conflicting priorities across multiple sites while remaining professional and solutions-focused
At Shaw Education Trust, we believe every role has the power to transform a life. Whether you’re supporting behind the scenes, inspiring in the classroom, or leading with vision, you will be part of something truly meaningful.
Our values—opportunity, integrity, community, and equity—guide everything we do. Our vision is “Opening doors to the world through the power of learning.” We bring this to life through our mission: working together to inspire communities where every school is valued, every voice matters, and every learner thrives.
We are a dynamic and growing family of primary, secondary, and special schools, proudly serving communities from Birmingham to Bury.
Our people are our greatest asset, and we are deeply committed to their development through high-quality training, apprenticeships, talent development programmes, and research opportunities, we empower our staff to thrive as skilled, confident professionals. We champion wellbeing, value every voice, and foster a culture where you feel supported, motivated, and inspired to make a real difference.
You will join a collaborative network of schools where shared expertise and a strong professional community drive success. Every academy within our Trust has an equal voice, and every colleague plays a vital role in shaping tailored learning experiences that raise aspirations and build brighter futures.
If you have the passion, dedication, and drive to help shape lives and create futures filled with promise, we would love you to join our team.
Together, let’s make the remarkable happen.
We believe every child has the potential to be extraordinary.
Working hours: 37 hours a week, full time, all year
Contract type: 12 months FTC
Start date: ASAP
Location: This is a hybrid role, combining remote working with travel as required to a cluster of academies within North Midlands to Cheshire and Head Office in Kidsgrove for training and team meetings
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined for the purposes of this guidance as:
Protecting children from maltreatment
Preventing impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development
Ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
Taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes
Shaw Education Trust recognises that in order to keep pupils safe, leaders must create where pupils and staff are able to speak freely and share any concerns they have.
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 The Shaw Education Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
We are in the business of people; we focus on harnessing the power of people to affect positive change for our children and young adults.
We enable children, leaders, teachers and support teams, to create their individual best futures. We are bespoke: one size fits one.
Our approach derives from a mission that education should be an exciting space, buzzing with vibrancy, dynamism and unlimited potential.
Innovation and entrepreneurialism fuel our passion, enabling creativity and mandating agility. We love a pirate!
Our talented people are everything; we focus heavily on workforce development, talent acceleration, and healthy wellbeing. By offering high quality training, apprenticeships, and research opportunities we ensure all our colleagues are well motivated, committed, highly valued, and incredibly driven, skilled professionals.
We are proud of our work family: they create magic for our young people!
Our learning community is enhanced by the mix of academies (primary, secondary and specialist) within our Trust; all with an equal voice. This allows us to create a team of collaborative folk with a wide range of valuable experience and knowledge.
We value and enjoy the privilege of working with our children and young adults; they are precious cargo. We are proud to be ‘exactly like nothing else.’
Our Core Values are:
To Be Pupil And People Centred
To Act With Integrity
To be Innovative
To Be Best In Class
To Be Accountable
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