HR Lead- Maternity Cover
Cooks Spinney Primary Academy and Nursery, Harlow, Essex, CM20 3BW17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
March 2025
Closing date
13 February 2026 at 10:59pm
Date listed
3 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,221.67 - £21,654.17 Annually (Actual) 41 Weeks Per Year (Term Time + 2)
HR Lead- Maternity Cover job summary
About the Role
This role is central to delivering a professional, efficient and confidential HR service across Cooks Spinney Primary Academy and Nursery and Magna Carta Primary Academy.
As the HR Lead, you will support staff throughout their employment journey, from recruitment and onboarding to absence management, wellbeing support and offboarding.
You will be a key point of contact for staff and leaders, ensuring all HR processes run smoothly, accurately and in line with Trust policies, safer recruitment expectations and statutory requirements.
Responsibilities include managing HR systems, maintaining the Single Central Record, coordinating payroll information, supporting complex casework and ensuring all data is handled with complete confidentiality and compliance.
Working closely with Headteachers, SLT and the HR Business Partner, you will help maintain a positive staff experience and contribute to a safe, supportive school environment.
You are highly organised, detail focused and committed to delivering an exceptional HR service. You understand the importance of safeguarding and confidentiality and are confident managing sensitive information with care.
You build strong professional relationships, communicate clearly and thrive in a busy school setting. You are solution focused, proactive and motivated to support staff across all stages of their employment. Experience in HR, education or compliance processes would be beneficial, along with the ability to work independently and as part of a wider team.
About the Trust
BMAT is a thriving community of schools, committed to providing an outstanding education for every student attending one of our schools. We create environments where individuals matter, confidence flourishes, and every child can achieve exceptional outcomes. We currently oversee seven secondary academies and five primary academies, primarily located in Harlow, with additional sites in Newham and Stansted.
The Trust’s vision is clear - to work together to smash through the barriers that prevent 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 Education 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)
Please note: Advert may close early if suitable candidate is found.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Cooks Spinney Primary Academy and Nursery
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 459 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Cooks Spinney Primary Academy and Nursery website
School location
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