HR Partner
The Howard Partnership Trust, Leatherhead, KT24 5JR15 days remaining to apply
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
4 April 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
- £46,464.00 - £51,300.00 Annually (Actual)
HR Partner job summary
This is a permanent role working 36 hours per week (Monday to Friday) /52 weeks per year.
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious CIPD qualified HR professional to join the HR team at the Howard Partnership Trust (THPT). Reporting to the Head of People, your knowledge and experience of employee relations particularly in case management will be essential as well as managing a team of HR Advisors and Assistants in this multi-site role. Your base will be in Oxted School, Oxted, although there will be a requirement to travel across the Trust schools within Surrey.
You will bring experience of excellent management of Employee Relations; Change Management including TUPE, with a proven track record of effective relationship management based on trust and integrity as you will be working closely with Senior Leaders and Principals.
The ideal candidate will be a tenacious, influential and a solution focused HR Generalist who will be an excellent team player providing highly effective commercial advice and support to our academies. You will support the Head of People in delivering the People Strategy as well as supporting academies on operational delivery of recruitment, managing performance, payroll, reward and recognition, policy development, HR training, TUPE and restructuring programmes.
Your excellent knowledge of employment law will enable you to work at pace, autonomously and be able to build good working relationships quickly with key stakeholders. You will provide day to day information, advice and guidance on a broad range of HR issues to academies, Trust Officers and other key stakeholders within the Trust.
No Agencies please
All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.
The Howard Partnership Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.
All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.
As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. 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).
SAFEGUARDING AND FURTHER INFORMATION
The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.
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 are not accepted.
About The Howard Partnership Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
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