11 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September/October 2025

  • Closing date

    9 September 2025 at 10am

  • Date listed

    29 August 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

£46,581.00 - £53,289.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 11, SCP 35 – 40 (FTE £46,581 - £53,289)

HR Business Partner job summary

The Sir John Brunner Foundation is seeking a dynamic and experienced HR Business Partner to join our team. This role is pivotal in aligning HR strategies with our organisational objectives, providing a critical link between the HR function and our academies. Our leadership teams highly value the added expertise and support this role brings.

In joining a welcoming, experienced and professional HR team, you will manage all aspects of people management to facilitate the delivery of the Foundation’s strategic priorities. As an experienced HR practitioner, you will work proactively, communicate effectively and provide credible advice and guidance to managers and leadership teams. Your enthusiasm and passion for delivering the best quality service for our people will directly contribute to the success of the Academies, children and families we serve.

We are looking for candidates with strong generalist experience and excellent knowledge of employment legislation. A particular interest in employee relations, organisational development and talent management or reward would be welcomed.

Our Multi Academy Trust, of three High Schools and a Sixth Form College operates at the heart of our local communities. The Foundation’s offices are based at Sir John Deane’s Sixth Form College campus set in beautiful grounds. The other Academies are all within easy reach, based in Cheshire. Regular travel to visit colleagues at the nominated academies will be required.

The role is advertised as full-time, however, consideration will be given to alternative working patterns for the right candidate.

If you have the enthusiasm, experience and skills to succeed please view the job description and person specification. To apply, please complete the application form, detailing how you meet the requirements of the post. Applications should be submitted no later than 9.00 am on 9th September 2025.

You are encouraged to submit an early application, as the Foundation may decide to close the advert early. Prospective candidates are invited to contact jkieran@sjbf.org.uk for further information about the role.

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

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

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About The Sir John Brunner Foundation

Type
Multi-academy trust

Head office location

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