HR Business Partner

Bmat Education, Harlow, CM20 2NR

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP Preferred but negotiable

• 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: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £47,436.00 Annually (FTE) Plus Travel Allowance and Excellent Benefits

HR Business Partner job summary

About the Role

We are looking to appoint a talented and experienced HR Business Partner to support the strategic and operational people priorities across our Multi-Academy Trust. Working closely with senior leaders and school-based staff, you will play a vital role in delivering a high-quality HR service that supports school improvement, staff wellbeing, and positive employee relations.

You will act as a trusted advisor, guiding on complex HR matters including organisational change, policy implementation, performance management, and employee development. This is a varied and rewarding role where your insight will directly influence the development of a strong, values-driven workforce across our Trust.

This position is ideal for a proactive HR professional with experience in the education sector or a similarly complex, people-focused environment. If you're passionate about making a difference and supporting schools to deliver the best outcomes for pupils, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Trust

We are driven by the ambition to be the best. Our trust currently oversees seven secondary academies and five primary academies, all mainly located in Harlow with other locations in Newham and Stansted. BMAT runs a community of schools which provide an outstanding education for every individual attending a Trust school. Our schools will be places of aspiration, where individuals matter and confidence flourishes so that achievement for all is outstanding. BMAT’s vision is to work together to smash through the barriers that prevent our children from becoming confident, high achieving and independent individuals

What can BMAT offer you?
BMAT provides a range of benefits to support your personal and professional well-being:

• Enhanced and flexible PPA
• Generous employer pension contribution through Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme
• Private healthcare benefits, including 24/7 Doctorline access
• Home and electronic salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work
• Discounted Gym membership through salary sacrifice
• Lifestyle and discount savings
• Workplace nursery fee salary sacrifice scheme via Yellownest
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for wellbeing support

BMAT is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Commitment to safeguarding

All staff are responsible for the safeguarding and wellbeing of pupils and must follow BMAT guidance and policies. Burnt Mill Academy Trust Directors are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers 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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Bmat Education

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Bmat Education website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bmat-education

Schools, teachers and pupils freed to succeed.

These few words sum up what BMAT is about. We are a growing multi-academy trust supporting primary and secondary schools across Essex and East London.

We started as a team of educationalists who succeeded in turning around the fortunes of Burnt Mill Academy in Harlow between 2010 - 2012. Since that time, we have built up a regional schools trust that is committed to the following:

‘No limits’ attitude towards children'. We believe that no child should be limited by where they’ve come from; that every child within the

BMAT family deserves the chance to move on from where they are now to somewhere better. This belief – this attitude – is a non-negotiable for us here at BMAT.

Letting our teachers truly teach. We believe in letting our teachers do what they’re best at – teach. Our experience is that a strict scheme of work and carbon copy approach doesn’t work. Why? Because, ultimately, instinctive teaching is the kind of teaching that will inspire a child to see and discover new possibilities.

Local schools with local personalities. We are not in the business of making every school in our network look like each other. In fact, we

celebrate the personality and character of each school that joins our network. Local schools by nature have local personalities – and we aren’t afraid of that.

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