HR Director

Cambrian Learning Trust, Faringdon, SN7 7LB

22 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  17 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  20 October 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: £62,785.00 - £89,376.00 Annually (FTE) Salary dependant on experience. Consideration will be given to candidates proposing a part time working pattern.

HR Director job summary

Cambrian Learning Trust are seeking a suitably experienced HR Director to provide strategic and operational leadership for all aspects of HR across the Trust, continuing our vision “to be a Beacon of Excellence.”

Ideally holding a Level 7 CIPD qualification, our preference is for a candidate with education sector experience and extensive knowledge spanning the national conditions of service for Teachers and Local Government Service.

This is an exciting time to join Cambrian Learning Trust in this pivotal role, as we move forward with developing our Trust HR strategy, identifying our HR priorities to support the Trust’s aim, and embedding best practice across our people teams.

As an 18 school Trust* our academies are situated within a few miles of each other in and around Faringdon, Wantage and Abingdon. We employ circa 1200 members of staff, making us the largest employer in the area.

As Director of HR, you will be expected to:

Contribute to the strategic leadership and management of the Trust

Advise the CEO, COO, Trustees, Governors, Senior Leaders, Head Teachers, and Line Managers to ensure compliance with employment law, and other statutory requirements in relation to HR and Payroll.

Provide strategy, information and guidance on matters of HR policy, employment legislation, payroll legislation, governance, employee relations, reward and development.

Work with Trade Unions, professional associations and other employee representatives, including consulting and negotiating on HR policy and procedures, Trust growth, TUPE, organisational change, terms and conditions of employment and other employment related matters within a unionised environment.

Lead and develop the HR and Payroll Teams, overseeing and ensuring the accurate and timely processing of payroll for all employees and the provision of professional HR and employment law support, advice and guidance.

*At the time of writing

Cambrian Learning Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism.  We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.  All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.

Cambrian Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community.

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

Faringdon Learning Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism.  We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.  All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.

Faringdon Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community.

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.

About Cambrian Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/faringdon-learning-trust

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