Personnel Officer

Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQ

18 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  2 June 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  13 May 2025

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: £22,109.00 Annually (Actual) This is the starting salary for Grade 8 based on 30 hours per week. The full-time equivalent salary range is £30,559 - £33,366 per annum.

Personnel Officer job summary

About Our Personnel Team

At Lord Williams’s School, our Personnel Team plays an important role in developing a supportive and effective working environment for all staff. We are committed to attracting, developing, and retaining high-calibre professionals who are dedicated to delivering exceptional education and care to our students. We support an employee body of over 300 staff, equally split between teachers and support staff across 2 school sites.

Key Responsibilities:

Recruitment & Selection: Collaborate with Department Heads to manage the recruitment process, ensuring compliance with safer recruitment practices and equal opportunities.

Payroll & Contract Management: Administer contractual changes and ensure payroll records are accurately updated accurately.

Absence Management: Record and monitor staff absences, supporting with case work and manage the support staff leave entitlement scheme.

Employee Relations: Provide guidance on employment policies and procedures, fostering a positive and collaborative workplace culture.

Compliance & Safeguarding: Ensure adherence to employment legislation and safeguarding requirements, maintaining a safe and supportive environment for both staff and students.

Administrative Support: Oversee Personnel administrative tasks, including record-keeping, contract management and reporting.

Our Ethos:

We value teamwork, integrity and a commitment to excellent customer service. As part of our Personnel Team, you will contribute to a school environment where staff feel valued, supported and empowered to make a positive impact on students' lives.

Commitment to safeguarding

Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.

Applying for the job

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About Lord Williams's School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 2276 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lord Williams's School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lord-williams-s-school

Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.

We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.

We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.

The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.

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