Human Resources Advisor

The Chelmsford Learning Partnership, Chelmsford, CM1 2QE

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  19 June 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  5 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,061 – £35,412

What skills and experience we're looking for

You’ll be confident, capable and ready to hit the ground running, with:

• ·CIPD Level 3 (minimum) or equivalent experience
• ·Strong, up-to-date knowledge of employment law & HR best practice
• ·Proven experience advising managers on people issues across a range of HR matters
• ·Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – able to influence and support at all levels
• ·Ability to manage a busy caseload with accuracy and professionalism
• ·Strong organisational skills and a solutions-focused mindset
• ·A collaborative, resilient and people-focused approach

Experience in education or safeguarding? That’s a bonus—but not essential.

What the school offers its staff

• Work in a values-driven organisation that prioritises people
• Be part of a collaborative HR team making real impact
• Develop your career with opportunities to grow and progress
• Enjoy a role where no two days are the same

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.

HR Advisor - 37 hours per week/52 weeks per year

Scale 7 - £32,061 – £35,412

Ready to Make a Difference in People’s Lives?

Join a forward-thinking multi-academy trust where your HR expertise will help shape thriving schools and support the people who make education extraordinary.

At Chelmsford Learning Partnership, we’re looking for a passionate, proactive HR Advisor who thrives on variety, loves solving problems, and is confident supporting managers through real-world people challenges.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Be the go-to HR professional for managers across multiple schools
• Provide practical advice on employee relations – absence, disciplinaries, grievances, performance and more
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and compliance, including Single Central Records
• Partner with leaders on change projects (TUPE, restructures, organisational change)
• Deliver insights through HR data and help drive better decision-making
• Help shape HR policies and ensure best practice and legal compliance

What We’re Looking For

You’ll be confident, capable and ready to hit the ground running, with:

• ·CIPD Level 3 (minimum) or equivalent experience
• ·Strong, up-to-date knowledge of employment law & HR best practice
• ·Proven experience advising managers on people issues across a range of HR matters
• ·Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – able to influence and support at all levels
• ·Ability to manage a busy caseload with accuracy and professionalism
• ·Strong organisational skills and a solutions-focused mindset
• ·A collaborative, resilient and people-focused approach

Experience in education or safeguarding? That’s a bonus—but not essential.

Why Join Us?

• Work in a values-driven organisation that prioritises people
• Be part of a collaborative HR team making real impact
• Develop your career with opportunities to grow and progress
• Enjoy a role where no two days are the same

This Role Is Perfect For You If You…

• Love building relationships and coaching managers
• Enjoy tackling complex people issues with confidence
• Want to be part of a supportive team making a genuine difference in education

Apply now and bring your HR expertise to a role that truly matters.

Ready to apply?

If you’re looking for a rewarding, flexible role where your skills make a real impact—we’d love to hear from you.

The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed within its schools to:

• Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual and cultural development of children and young people;
• Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
• The fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment.

As an equal opportunities employer, The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join The Chelmsford Learning Partnership.

In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted.  This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references. The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is an equal opportunities employer.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About The Chelmsford Learning Partnership

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: The Chelmsford Learning Partnership website
• Email address: GTravers@CLPTrust.com
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-chelmsford-learning-partnership

The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is a successful and established multi-academy trust based in Essex.

There are currently 11 schools in the CLP multi academy trust; Barnes Farm Primary School, Lakelands Primary School, Runwell Community Primary School, The Beaulieu Park School, The Boswells School, The Tyrrells Primary School, William de Ferrers School and Woodville Primary School.

We believe that, as a collective of schools, we are stronger together and that by working together we provide an outstanding education for every child in our family of schools.

Head office location

Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed

Find more school jobs in Chelmsford