People Director

Cheshire Academies Trust, Kelsall, CW6 0PU

4 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  15 June 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  22 May 2026

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: £23,887.00 - £27,188.00 Annually (Actual)

People Director job summary

Your responsibilities will include:

Serving as the Trust's primary HR adviser, providing guidance to all senior leaders on all employment matters, including complex casework, disciplinary, grievance, capability and absence management.

Developing and maintaining the Trust's HR policy framework, ensuring policies are legally compliant, practically useful and consistently applied across all schools. Policies operate under the STPCD for teaching staff and NJC Green Book / Burgundy Book for support staff, and you'll be expected to keep the Trust current with changes to both.

Leading on workforce planning and recruitment strategy, including supporting with senior appointments and ensuring safer recruitment compliance across all schools in line with KCSIE and the Trust's Safeguarding and Recruitment and Selection Policy.

Managing the Trust's relationship with its occupational health supplier and taking responsibility for the effective use of Civica as the HR information system.

Supporting and quality-assuring the Trust's appraisal and pay processes, ensuring consistency across schools and alignment with the STPCD and the Trust's Pay Policy.

Expanding and enhancing Trust-wide approaches to staff wellbeing, equality and diversity, and professional development, working alongside the Chief Education Officer where workforce development intersects with school improvement.

Preparing and presenting workforce data and people reporting to the CFOO and Executive Team, including contributing to the Workforce Strategy and delivering the Workforce SQM.

Supporting the Trust's growth, leading on TUPE and employment due diligence when new schools join the Trust.

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 Cheshire Academies Trust

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

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