People Business Partner
The People's Learning Trust, Liverpool, L4 4EL15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
13 March 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £40,777.00 - £46,142.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Scale 7 or 8 (dependent on knowledge, skills and experience):
People Business Partner job summary
People Business Partner
Join The People’s Learning Trust and Make a Lasting Impact on Education
Are you an experienced HR professional passionate about shaping exceptional educational environments? Do you thrive on partnering with leaders to foster inclusive, supportive, and high-performing teams? The People’s Learning Trust is seeking a dedicated People Business Partner to join our vibrant Central Team and play a pivotal role in driving our vision of excellence and inclusivity across multiple academies.
About The People’s Learning Trust
We are a dynamic Multi-Academy Trust comprising five diverse schools, including three primary academies and two Pupil Referral Units, one of which offers mainstream college provision. Rooted in the Everton family ethos, our Trust is committed to creating a compassionate, collaborative, and innovative environment where every pupil and staff member feels valued and empowered.
Our mission is clear: to cultivate inclusivity, trust, positive relationships, and a love of learning that enables individuals to excel and contribute meaningfully to our global community. Our core values—Inclusivity, Collaboration, Respect, Trust, and Community—guide everything we do. We believe every pupil can achieve their greatest ambitions, and we support this through strong leadership, autonomy, and tailored development opportunities.
About the Role
As a People Business Partner, you will be a trusted advisor to senior leaders and governing bodies, delivering strategic and operational people management across our academies. Your expertise will help shape workforce planning, employee relations, wellbeing initiatives, and recruitment processes that underpin school improvement and organisational effectiveness.
Key highlights of the role include:
- Leading complex employee relations cases and providing expert guidance grounded in employment law and best practice.
- Using data and workforce insights to inform recruitment, retention, and development strategies.
- Coaching senior leaders to enhance leadership capability and foster a positive workplace culture.
- Ensuring compliance with safeguarding, equality, diversity, and inclusion standards.
- Playing an active role in evolving our People function to support our vision of world-class academies.
This is a full-time, permanent position offering a hybrid working model between our Trust HQ at Goodison Park, various academy sites, and home.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The People's Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
At The People’s Learning Trust, we are confident that every student can achieve their greatest ambitions. Our academies play a crucial role in shaping their life prospects, and we believe in fostering leadership and autonomy to prepare our learners for the future.
Our commitment to inclusivity, collaboration, and excellence ensures that all children receive the support they need to thrive academically and personally.
How we will help children achieve:
We aim to ensure the highest standard of teaching across our Trust.
Our strategies include:
increasing the number of academies rated outstanding by Ofsted;
providing robust support and challenge to schools for rapid improvement;
diminishing attainment gaps between student groups to achieve whole school success.
Our trauma-informed, attachment-aware approach supports all students, including those in referral units who may have felt isolated in the past. We develop curricula that go beyond content, focusing on foundational literacies, character qualities, and competencies.
Our commitment to excellence:
The People’s Learning Trust ethos is “That will do, won’t do. For us, it is the best or nothing,” aligning with the mission of Everton Football Club, “Nil Satis Nisi Optimum”. Our dedication to safeguarding, inclusivity, and the highest expectations drives our determination to cultivate success for our young people.
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