People Business Partner
Avanti Schools Trust, Stanmore, HA7 2EQ6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
17 September 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Please see JD for details
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- Grade 11, £50,899- £54,000 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Please Note:This role is fixed term for 12 months
Are you an experienced People professional, able to drive long-lasting change?
We invite you to join our team as a People Business Partner, where you’ll have the chance to collaborate closely with senior leadership to design and deliver people solutions to complex, organisation-wide challenges.
Acting as a trusted advisor, you’ll coach and challenge leaders to grow in a people-centred way, while providing expert guidance across the full spectrum of people matters — from organisational restructures and performance management to employee relations, recruitment, and policy application.
Knowledge of the education sector or experience within a Multi Academy Trust would be beneficial, though not essential.
This is a hands-on and strategic role where your expertise will help shape our culture, strengthen leadership capability, and create an outstanding working environment for our staff.
If you're ready to contribute to a forward-thinking team and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you!
What will you do?
Leadership Partnership & People Strategy:
- Partner with senior leaders to address complex workforce challenges, using data and insight to create effective people solutions.
- Lead organisational change, including restructures, and coach leaders to strengthen their people management skills and handle sensitive issues.
People Services Expertise:
- Offer comprehensive support on People Services commitments, including reward and recognition systems and employee well-being programs.
- Ensure timely completion of cyclical People Services activities, providing support and oversight to leadership and management.
- Provide expert advice on all aspects of employee relations, ensuring fair, consistent, and compliant application of policies and procedures.
Team Leadership & Collaboration:
- Work with the HR Business partnering team (People Business Partner's and Assistant People Business Partner's), and supporting the broader People Services team.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of employment law and best practice, promoting a collaborative, high-quality service across the Trust.
- Work closely with the People Services Leadership team to deliver the Trust’s strategy, keeping up to date with best practices and regulatory changes.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- NEST pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Flexible working opportunities
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further information about the job
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
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About Avanti Schools Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- Avanti Schools Trust website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.
Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.
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