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HR Casework Investigator
Wymondham College, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 9SZ60 days remaining to apply
Closing date
19 January 2026 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
19 November 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
- £37,020 - £40,208 actual pa
HR Casework Investigator job summary
Sapientia Education Trust HQ, Wymondham College site (travel to other schools required)
- Salary - SCP 32–35, £37,020 - £40,208 actual pa (£42,839 – £46,142 FTE)
- Permanent
- Full Time
- 37 hours per week
- Term time + 1 week (39 weeks)
At Sapientia Education Trust, our purpose reaches far beyond education. We inspire curiosity, nurture potential, and empower over 5,500 young people across 22 schools to flourish. Behind that success is a dedicated HR team who are now seeking a skilled HR Casework Investigator to join the Trust.
This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in supporting a values driven Trust with complex, sensitive employee relations work. You’ll lead independent investigations into disciplinary, grievance, whistleblowing and other HR casework, ensuring fairness, transparency, and legal compliance throughout.
Do you have the skills to:
- Carry out detailed and impartial investigations into complex employee relations issues?
- Communicate confidently, empathically, and with clarity during staff and witness interviews?
- Analyse evidence objectively and produce clear, well structured investigation reports?
- Build effective working relationships across HR, management, and schools to keep cases on track?
- Offer sound, professional guidance on investigative processes and procedure?
- Manage multiple cases at different stages while staying organised and meeting deadlines?
If you are a professional with integrity, strong attention to detail, with strong communication and analytical skills with the ability to handle sensitive situations with empathy and discretion, we would love to hear from you.
What We Offer:
- Sodexo benefits account and Blue Light Card with discounts from major retailers.
- Hybrid working (one day per week from home after probation).
- 24/7 access to our employee wellbeing platform and resources.
- Local Government Pension scheme
- The support of a friendly and collaborative Central HR Team who share your commitment to fairness and continuous improvement.
Join a Trust that values your professionalism, supports your growth, and recognises the difference your work makes every day.
How to apply
A job description is available from ‘Attachments’.
For this vacancy, if you click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, you will be redirected to our website to apply via our online application form.
Closing date: Applications are to be considered upon receipt, so early applications are recommended.
Interview date: TBC
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore all applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The post-holder will be required to comply with the Wymondham College Code of Conduct for Staff and Volunteers. Wymondham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.
In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview.
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 Wymondham College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1441 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wymondham College website
Wymondham College is a member of the Sapientia Education Trust (SET). SET is an expanding multi-academy trust with 10 primary and 7 secondary schools. Wymondham College has over 400 staff dedicated to supporting World Class education. The College currently is one of the top State Schools in the Country and is recognised as one of the highest performing State Schools in the East of England, this is backed up by its most recent Ofsted review which rated the College as outstanding in both Education and Boarding inspections.
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