HR (People) Administrator

Inclusive Multi Academy Trust, Watford, WD24 5TY

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  29 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  15 July 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: £25,183.00 - £26,409.00 Annually (FTE) Pro rata (actual) £11273 to £11822

HR (People) Administrator job summary

As part of our central team, you’ll undertake a pivotal role in ensuring smooth HR operations across our schools—supporting recruitment, onboarding, employee records, payroll processing, absence tracking and HR projects.

This is a permanent role, working 15 hours per week. Term time only plus 5 inset days and two additional weeks during school holidays (specific days to be agreed with line manager).

Our ideal candidate will be friendly, have excellent communication skills, bring experience in education HR, have excellent admin skills, keen attention to detail, a professional approach to working with our schools and proficiency in IT and social media.

Why Choose us:

• Values‑Driven: We champion happiness, inclusion, and community.
• People‑Centred: We invest in our people—through wellbeing, collaboration, and opportunity.
• Professional Growth: Structured development, mentoring, and progression. We will support you through a Level 3 HR Support qualification should you desire to move forward on an HR career pathway.
• Hybrid role: Flexible working available. Home/office based with travel needed to our schools. Days and times , minimum over three days, will be negotiated with the candidate.

The Inclusive Multi Academy Trust (IMAT) brings together Watford primary schools under a shared vision: “Happy Children Learn, Happy Staff Thrive, Happy People Build a Community.”

Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert early should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We require you to disclose any previous criminal convictions our cautions even if they are spent. Please be aware that online searches may be completed as part of our pre-recruitment checks. Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a Criminal Record Declaration Form prior to interview.

When recruiting and selecting staff, the Trust is required to comply with all relevant employment legislation to ensure we are recruiting within the law as well as complying with the Trust’s Equality Policy. The Selection Criteria document is critical in the process and sets out the requirements which the person appointed should have in order to perform the duties of the post satisfactorily and against which applicants will be assessed. The selection criteria will be used throughout the recruitment process as an objective test of assessing candidates at shortlisting, test and interview stages. Shortlisting will be completed by assessing against the advertised person specification. Our interviews will always include relevant questions relating to teaching and will include questions on child protection and/or safeguarding, behaviour and safety. There will also be an observation element to the selection day and a task.

Please contact our Chief Operating Officer, Sharon Carlyon, should you require further information about the role or to have a tour of the school.

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 Inclusive Multi Academy Trust

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

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