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  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    8 June 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    27 May 2025

Job details

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Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: The role is offered as full time but part time hours can be considered.

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£64,356 - £69,661

What skills and experience we're looking for

Aspire Academy Trust is seeking a modern leader who has a demonstrable and successful track record of making a positive difference to HR, people and culture strategies within an organisation.

Aspire is an innovative and ambitious trust and sets an unapologetically high bar for its academies to deliver educational excellence. Every Aspire child should thrive and have the best opportunity to succeed, regardless of where they live, their social circumstances or additional needs. The HR & People Director will have an unrelenting focus on driving the trust to be an employer of choice promoting the strong ethos and values so that the pupils of the trust receive the best education from Aspire staff at all levels.

As HR & People Director you will champion collaborative working and continual professional development for all staff to nurture, maintain and empower a happy, vibrant and skilled workforce. The trust encapsulates this commitment, living by its strapline “working together, inspiring excellence” in each of its 37 primary academies, 22 nurseries and 2 outdoor education centres, located across Cornwall.

Our trust seeks a Director with a strong understanding of risk, opportunities and landscape of a growing MAT. As HR & People Director you will be up to date in HR legislation and practice. All of these are necessary for the work of the MAT to succeed.

You will also be supported by our experienced trust board and will work in partnership with our other directors, strategic leads, Heads of School, and the Diocese, to develop our trust and ensure that both the MAT as a whole and its individual schools consistently achieve excellent educational outcomes for all pupils.

The role will be based at St Austell, however, there are opportunities for hybrid approaches to working across the Trust. The role is offered as full time but part time hours can be considered.

Application is viawww.aspireacademytrust.org/vacancies. For a paper copy, please contact 01726 438613.Completed application forms can be emailed to hrteam@iaspire.net or returned via post to Aspire Academy Trust, Unit 20 St Austell Business Park, St Austell, Cornwall PL25 4FD.

Please contact the HR team on 01726 438613 to request an informal discussion with the CEO or COO. The proposed interview date is Monday 16th June 2025.

What the school offers its staff

You will also be supported by our experienced trust board and will work in partnership with our other directors, strategic leads, Heads of School, and the Diocese, to develop our trust and ensure that both the MAT as a whole and its individual schools consistently achieve excellent educational outcomes for all pupils.

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 Aspire Academy Trust

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Multi-academy trust

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