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HR Manager

Meridian Trust, Huntingdon, PE28 5TQ

This job expired on 24 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  24 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 July 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: £41,511.00 - £45,718.00 Annually (Actual)

HR Manager job summary

Vacancy for HR Manager

Salary: Meridian Trust Support. Grade 11 . Points 32-36.

Hours of work: 37 Hours per week, 52 weeks per year.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly and supportive team as an HR Manager. Leading a Senior HR Advisor and HR Officer, you will provide HR business partnering support service within a geographical hub of schools within Cambridgeshire. Using your HR expertise and experience you will provide pragmatic advice and guidance to senior leaders on a range of HR management issues, ensuring compliance with HR policies, employment law and current HR best practice. You will manage a range of employee relations issues, including disciplinary, capability and grievance cases and organisational change projects including TUPE. Your support to the schools also includes providing Professional dotted-line management of the school HR Officers.

You are:

• An experienced HR generalist, qualified to CIPD Level 5 as a minimum, with employee relations experience in a complex and regulated environment looking for a new challenge in a friendly and supportive team.
• A confident communicator with good HR knowledge and expertise and the ability to quickly establish your credibility and build professional relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Able to demonstrate having operated as a critical friend to senior leaders, supporting them to build organisational and people capability, implement people strategies and activities, and manage people issues effectively and fairly.
• An experienced people manager who leads by example and supports, encourages and develops your team to ensure schools receive an excellent HR service.
• HR experience in the education sector is desirable but not essential as we will provide full support and training.

This role covers multiple sites and the post-holder is expected to hold a current driving licence and have access to transport to travel to schools within their Hub and to Head Office in Sawtry for meetings.

About Meridian Trust –

Meridian Trust is a values-led organisation formed in 2011 that has risen to be one of the highest-performing academy trusts in the country. The Trust is founded on its commitment to a high-quality educational provision for all at the heart of local communities. Meridian currently operates primary, secondary and special schools across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire.

Meridian Trust offers a wealth of fantastic benefits for teaching and support staff which are highlighted below but are not limited to -

• Apprenticeship and CPD opportunities which allow you to gain specialist knowledge in a role you are passionate about developing in
• Opportunity to jump start your career in teaching through our dedicated Initial Teacher Training Team (ITT)
• Support for mental health and wellbeing through our Employee Assistance Programme and other resources
• Cycle to work scheme
• Defined benefit local government or Teacher’s pension scheme
• Healthcare benefits including free eye test vouchers and flu vaccinations
• Free on-site parking
• Discounts on a wide range of benefits from everyday essentials to holidays

To explore our full range of benefits, please visit https://www.meridiantrust.co.uk/jobs-and-training/benefits/.

For more information about the role please download the Applicant Information Pack below.

Closing date for applications: 24th July 2025.

Interviews will be held on: 31st July 2025.

Meridian Trust reserves the right to close the applications early in the event that a suitable candidate is sourced. Applications will be reviewed as received so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

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About Meridian Trust

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

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