HR Business Partner

The Oxford Academy, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 6JZ

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  28 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  6 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £44,711.00 - £47,754.00 Annually (FTE) *2025 pay award pending. Actual salary will depend on working weeks per year

HR Business Partner job summary

Are you an experienced Schools HR professional?

Do you like a challenge?

Would you like to work in a forward thinking and innovative Multi Academy Trust?

Due to internal movement this role has been designed to provide a comprehensive HR service at The Oxford Academy (TOA) and to manage the day-to-day operations of the Human Resources Team.

You will have a dotted reporting line to the Headteacher for operational requirements and will directly report into the RLT Head of HR Business Partnering. You will be considered part of the RLT Central HR Team.

While you are based at TOA, you will spend one day a week with the Central HR Team and other HR Business Partners. You will be included in Central HR Team and development meetings and all CPLD events delivered for the team.

Initially you will be dedicated to TOA developing the HR Team and aligning all HR processes to where they need to be according to trust policy and statutory guidelines. Over time you will begin to support other trust schools and develop as a multi site HR Business Partner.

What skills / experience are required

The successful candidate will have Schools HR experience with a successful track record in managing employee relations, be highly organised and a strong communicator with an ability to build strong working relationships within The Oxford Academy and with RLT Central Team colleagues. You are either already a HRBP or aspiring to be one!

We can offer the opportunity to work in a friendly and supportive HR team, with excellent opportunities for professional and personal development. The Oxford Academy is at a very exciting time in its journey and is a thriving secondary school which is part of the River Learning Trust. Please see our attached recruitment pack regarding the HRBP role and additional recruitment information for The Oxford Academy.

The role is offered flexibly. The exact hours and working pattern can be tailored to the needs of the successful candidate. Ideally the role will be 37 hours per week (no less than 30 hours per week) with a minimum of 42 working weeks per year (Term time + Inset days + 3 weeks closure period working including the last week of the summer closure period) up to 52 weeks per year

Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.

OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our Working at RLT guide

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.

If you would like to have a confidential conversation with Jo Holohan, RLT Head of HR Business Partnering about the role, prior to application, then please email jholohan@riverlearningtrust or telephone 07970678352

The River Learning Trust and The Oxford Academy are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered

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 The Oxford Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1159 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Oxford Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-oxford-academy

The Oxford Academy is a warm, friendly and vibrant school that is built on an ethos of high expectations for all and a belief that every child will be successful - academically, personally and as a lifelong contributor to the wider world.

Our inclusive Christian values underpin all that we do. Staff at our school have a firm belief in the power of education to shape children’s lives for the better. The Oxford Academy is centred on a culture of excellence where we respect each other, are self-motivated, determined, responsible, have a thirst for learning, and a strong sense of pride in belonging to the Academy.

We are committed to providing educational opportunities of the highest quality for all our students and we believe in educating the whole child. We aim to deliver a broad education that is ambitious, varied and stimulating in a caring environment that creates well-rounded individuals who excel and benefit from our approaches to teaching and learning. At the Oxford Academy, we are inclusive and a school for all in our community. We work to meet the needs of our students - whatever it takes.

The Oxford Academy is driven by raising aspirations, expectations and achievements for all. We are very much outward facing and seek to engage with local, national and international partners, in order to build an ambitious network of support for the children in our care. Our fundamental aim is to create vibrant and dynamic learning experiences, so every child has the opportunity to become an ambitious, confident learner.

Our website will enable you to discover more about the Academy; I hope that you will quickly gain a sense of the rich potential of our students and staff, their achievements and the wider life of our school.

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