- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 399 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Charnock Hall Primary Academy website
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HR Officer
More than one location, L.E.A.D. Academy Trust11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
17 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
28 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- £30,016 - £32,654
What skills and experience we're looking for
L.E.A.D. Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check
Established in 2011, L.E.A.D. Academy Trust has grown significantly to become a successful group of 27 academies serving a wide range of communities across the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.
Outstanding staff make outstanding schools, and in HR we are proud to support our staff across the Trust, in raising standards for every one of our 11,000 pupils. We are an established and experienced HR team who are keen to develop and grow a HR professional who has broad experience in basic case management with a desire to progress their career. Is that you?
Reporting into the Deputy HRBP, you will actively contribute to our fast paced and commercially focussed HR service. You will be a HR professional who is flexible and comfortable working collaboratively, whilst able to take on responsibility for supporting sickness absence management with other generalist caseloads as required based on competence.
You will either be working from home or from one of our academies providing operational HR support across the Trust. The key to your success will be your ability to communicate effectively, build strong working relationships with your stakeholders and be highly organised and adaptable to change.
Specifically, you will be responsible for:
- Respond to day to day queries from academies and managers across the Trust on HR policy, procedure and best practice.
- Managing sickness absence casework across partner schools for both long and short term sickness.
- Support investigating managers with completing processes ensuring coaching, guidance and documentation and advice is provided in a timely manner.
- Managing own casework on all employee relation issues from disciplinary, grievances, maternity, consultations and any other HR cases as required by partner schools.
- Ensure all advice is fully compliant with current employment law.
- Note taking at formal HR meetings as required by own case work or other HR team members.
- To be responsible for your own continuous professional development and participate fully in training and development.
- Prepare and provide attendance reports using the Trust's HR system to ensure the wider HR team are able to monitor trends and respond accordingly.
- Undertake compliance checks on academy single central records and file audits in line with inspection schedules providing advice and guidance as required.
- Maintaining accurate, confidential and compliant systems and processes to support the effective and efficient operation of the wider HR function.
- Provide effective support and coordination of audit activities within the HR team.
- Jointly maintain the shared drive and SharePoint/intranet pages for the HR team.
- Maintaining accurate, confidential and compliant systems and processes to support the effective and efficient operation of the wider HR function.
- Support the wider HR team in organisational change initiatives and employee relations matters.
- In partnership with the wider HR Team, participate in projects which contribute to the progress of HR initiatives.
- Advise and support the academies in ensuring compliance for SCR requirements.
- Proactively participate in HR continuous improvement processes.
- Support the wider HR Team on projects including training and induction programmes.
- Support with the administration of any Trust benefits programmes and implementation of any new processes/systems.
- Produce management reports as required and directed to the wider HR Team,
- Coordination of the HR content for Trust newsletter.
- Take accountability and responsibility for own project deliverables as required as part of the objective setting and departmental continuous improvement.
- Support Trust schools with advice and guidance around recruitment advertising, candidate packs, interview guides and assessment materials.
- Support Central Safeguarding teams with updates to the Safer Recruitment Processes.
- Provide advice and guidance to all areas of the Trust in relation to induction and probation requirements and processes.
- Provide training, advice and guidance on improvement processes relating to recruitment within the Trust.
- Support the delivery of training sessions on operational HR matters within the Academies.
- Maintain the Trust SCR and support with on-boarding process for central team staff including DBS applications.
Full details can be found on our Trust Vacancy site, detailed below.
To be successful, you will have:
- A recognised HR qualification (CIPD Level 3 preferred) and/or significant HR Generalist experience.
- Proven stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Access to own vehicle to travel to academies across the Trust’s region.
- Experience of working in the Education sector is not essential but would be advantageous.
Excellent benefits package which includes:
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with increased service.
- Flexible approach to working both from home and in our academies.
- Maximum amount mileage allowance.
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme.
- Very generous local authority pension scheme of minimum 17% employer contribution.
Full details can be found at: https://www.leadacademytrust.co.uk/staff-benefits
For an informal discussion or a confidential conversation about this opportunity, applicants are welcome to contact Marianne Fareham, HR Business Partner via email on marianne.fareham@leadacademytrust.co.uk
Download our application form and read the full candidate pack, including job description and person specification from our website https://www.leadacademytrust.co.uk/vacancies/hr-officer-trust-jan24
Please submit a completed application form and Cover Letter to HR@leadacademytrust.co.uk. in line with safer recruitment, you will be required to complete an application form if you are invited for an interview.
L.E.A.D. Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Closing date:10am 17th March 2025
Interviews will take place onTuesday 25th 2024
What the school offers its staff
See candidate pack for more details
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 L.E.A.D. Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- marianne.fareham@leadacademytrust.co.uk
Our vision is that through outstanding leadership we will provide the highest quality education to enable every pupil to realise their full potential.
Of course, every good school aspires to this aim, so what makes us different?
We passionately believe in the power of partnership working as a catalyst for ensuring more children receive an exceptional education. Our member schools know the transformational impact it can have from experience.
At the same time, we recognise the importance of autonomy. Every school has its own context and challenges. This is why we encourage our member schools to lead and manage in a way that preserves their individual identity and responds to the specific needs of their children and community.
The combination of autonomy and collaboration across key areas of leadership and management, underpinned by shared vision, values and best practice is what makes the L.E.A.D. Academy Trust unique.
We are also strengthened by the support, guidance and wide-ranging skills of our experienced board of trustees.
The acronym L.E.A.D. embodies the four core principles at the heart of the Trust: strong leadership at every level; empowering every child to aim high; giving every child the opportunity to achieve and constantly driving for improvement.
Our innovative model is attracting widespread attention from schools nationally that share our vision and values.
Diana Owen CBE
Chief Executive
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Charnock Hall Primary Academy
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