HR & Payroll Administrator
Brighter Futures Educational Trust, Stevenage, SG1 5BZ13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
3rd February 2026
Closing date
23 January 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 January 2026
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
- £30,071.00 - £32,763.00 Annually (FTE)
HR & Payroll Administrator job summary
About the Trust
Brighter Futures Educational Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, or marital/civil partnership status.
The Role
We are seeking a highly organised and professional HR & Payroll Administrator to join our Central Team. This role is key to delivering high-quality, compliant, and customer-focused HR and payroll services across the Trust. You will support all transactional HR and payroll activities while also providing wider administrative support to finance, governance, and operations as required.
Grade: H6/1
Hours: 25 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
Contract: Probationary to permanent
Location: Trust Office, Larwood School site, Stevenage (travel across Trust schools required)
Reporting to: HR Manager
Key Responsibilities
Recruitment & Onboarding
- Support the full recruitment process, including drafting adverts, liaising with agencies, organising interviews, and requesting references
- Prepare and issue offer letters, contracts, and onboarding documentation
- Support line managers with induction and leaver administration
- Maintain accurate recruitment records in line with safer recruitment guidelines
Payroll
- Assist with monthly payroll processing, including timesheets, absence, and unpaid leave
- Respond to payroll queries and liaise with the external payroll provider
- Support salary deductions, salary sacrifice schemes, pay progression, TUPE processes, and annual audits (e.g. School Workforce Census)
Human Resources
- Act as the first point of contact for HR administrative queries, in liaison with the HR Manager
- Administer contract changes, maternity documentation, and leaver processes
- Work collaboratively with schools and staff across the Trust
- Provide ad-hoc HR project support and undertake additional reasonable duties as required
Compliance & Safeguarding
- Ensure compliance with employment law, Trust policies, and statutory requirements
- Support safer recruitment processes, including DBS checks and maintenance of the Single Central Record
- Ensure adherence to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance
Operational & Financial Support
- Vehicle and lettings administration
- Financial administrative tasks, including invoice processing
- Support central team colleagues as required
Person Specification
Essential
- GCSEs (or equivalent) in Maths and English
- Minimum of 1 year’s experience working in an HR environment
- Experience in payroll administration
- Strong administrative and organisational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good IT skills (Word, Excel)
- Ability to meet deadlines and manage confidential information
- Driving licence
Desirable
- Experience working in the education sector
- Experience supporting HR projects
- Experience with DBS processes (or willingness to undertake training)
Other Information
The role is based at the Trust Office on the Larwood School site in Stevenage. Occasional travel to other Trust schools will be required; mileage expenses will be reimbursed.
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.
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- Multi-academy trust
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