Recruitment and Contracts Coordinator

The Two Counties Trust, Kirby In Ashfield, NG17 8HP

7 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  20 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  13 October 2025

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: £26,403.00 - £28,142.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 3 £26,403 - £28,142 FTE per annum

Recruitment and Contracts Coordinator job summary

Recruitment and Contracts Coordinator

The Two Counties Trust

Grade and Salary: Grade 3 £26,403 - £28,142 FTE per annum

Working pattern: 37 hours a week, year round

Contract Term: Permanent

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Recruitment and Contracts Coordinator to join the Human Resources Team at The Two Counties Trust. You will join a team of dedicated, likeminded HR professionals who pride themselves on delivering an excellent service to the schools within our Trust.

This role involves coordinating engaging and effective end to end recruitment campaigns, working closely with Leaders in our schools, onboarding new starters, ensuring that candidates undergo all statutory checks to deliver a seamless transition into our Trust.

In addition to recruitment and onboarding, you will also be responsible for processing letters, documents and contracts associated with any employment or contractual changes throughout the employee lifecycle.

This area of your role will require a keen eye for detail to guarantee accurate information is being provided to our employees and building strong relationships with our schools.

The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, shows initiative and can demonstrate experience of managing a busy workload and processing high volumes of transactional tasks.

Although not essential, experience of working within education and knowledge of Keeping Children Safe in Education would be advantageous.

Why join us?

There are many reasons to choose The Two Counties Trust as a great place to start or continue your career.

We recognise the importance of a happy, healthy, rewarded and well motivated workforce and as such we have developed our HR strategy to invest in our employees.

We have removed appraisal and appraisal related pay progression, changing the focus from validation to professional growth and enabling all our employees to get better all the time.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within schools and across the Trust and we offer extensive professional learning opportunities for all employees.

We offer:

Highly competitive pay and pay progression opportunities

An array of employee benefits and lifestyle options including discounted healthcare, gym membership and extensive high street retail discounts.

Entry to a career average pension scheme.

Opportunities to experience and share practice in our partner schools across the Trust.

A stimulating, supportive and rewarding working environment with a dedicated team of like-minded professionals.

Excellent opportunities to develop your skills and experience and to progress your career.

We take the wellbeing and health of employees seriously. We have a range of support mechanisms and benefits available to employees and the Trust has signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter.

The closing date for applications is: Midday on Monday 20 October 2025

Interviews will be held on: W/C 27 October 2025

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory enhanced level DBS disclosure with a children’s barred list check, two satisfactory references and successful completion of vetting procedures.

In accordance with the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates and a social media check will be required as a condition of employment.

We are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and candidates with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.

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 The Two Counties Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-two-counties-trust

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