HR Officer

Bridge Multi Academy Trust, Bodmin, PL31 2RQ

16 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  12 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  26 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,708.00 Annually (FTE)

HR Officer job summary

We are looking for a proactive and professional HR Officer to join our Multi-Academy Trust, which supports 15 thriving primary schools.

Working closely with the Head of HR, you will play a key role in delivering an efficient, modern HR service. This is a varied role where no two days are the same. You might be supporting employee relations casework, coordinating recruitment and safer recruitment checks, assisting with payroll and pensions accuracy, or helping schools use our HR systems effectively. You’ll also contribute to Trust-wide projects, from staff engagement and wellbeing initiatives to process improvements that make HR smarter and more efficient.

We’re looking for someone with lived HR experience who can provide confident, accurate advice on day-to-day employment matters. You’ll be solutions focused, personable, and resilient, with the ability to build trust quickly and work collaboratively.

In return, we offer:

• A supportive and close-knit HR team where your ideas will be valued.
• Hybrid working and term-time working options
• A wellbeing package, including access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).

If you’re passionate about people, enjoy improving processes, and want to help create a positive working culture across our schools, we’d love to hear from you.

Hours: 25-30 per week (negotiable)

Working weeks: 38 weeks + INSET + 4 (Term time +)

Paid weeks: 45.769 per year (includes holiday entitlement)

Pay: £32,708 full-time equivalent (actual salary £21,702 for 27.5 hours per week)

About Bridge Schools Trust

Bridge Schools Trust is a family of schools across Cornwall, built on dedication and trust and united by a shared commitment to putting learning first.

Our values guide everything we do:

• Creative in our approach to teaching and problem-solving

• Curious, always innovating and learning

• Responsible, accountable to our communities

• Enthusiastic, bringing energy and passion to every endeavour

• Excellent in our expectations and delivery

• Determined, rallying together to overcome challenges

By joining us, you will become part of a collaborative, supportive, and forward-thinking Trust where staff are valued, wellbeing is prioritised, and professional development is encouraged.

Safeguarding and Equal Opportunities

Bridge Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, Social Media check, and satisfactory references.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

If you have the drive and determination to enable every child to succeed, and wish to be part of a Trust that values creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement , we would love to hear from you.

Please submit your application as early as possible if you wish to apply, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to close this advert early dependant on the volume of applications received.

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.

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 Bridge Multi Academy Trust

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

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