Senior HR Advisor
Cathedral Schools Trust, Bristol, BS20 0HUThis job expired on 2 June 2024
Start date details
1st July 2024 or as soon after
Closing date
2 June 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 May 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time, flexible: Full-time, 37.5 working hours per week across 5 days, all year round (Flexibility in hours considered for the right candidate, but no less than 32.5 hours across 5 days)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- SCP 32 - 36 [£35,802 - £39,298] (1.0FTE)
Pay scale
- SCP 32 - 36
What skills and experience we're looking for
Senior HR Advisor
- Employment start date: 1st July 2024 (or as soon after)
- Employment basis: Full-time, 37.5 working hours per week across 5 days, all year round. Flexibility in hours and weeks worked, considered for the right candidate. Please indicate your preference in your application.
Cathedral Schools Trust are seeking to appoint a Senior HR Advisor to join our Central HR team and support all schools across our Trust from July 2024.
You will work closely with Heads, School Business/HR managers to provide a professional, trusted and solution focused HR service, that delivers best practice within our values led organisation. The role will include providing best practice advice and support, including but not limited to: absence management, conduct, and capability, grievance, organisational change, family policies (maternity and paternity, shared parental, flexible working), including providing professional advice at hearings. There will also be the opportunity to lead on specialist HR areas including long term sickness absence and wellbeing initiatives.
Further details of the role are set out in the attached job description and person specification.
Cathedral Schools Trust is made up of three secondary schools (Bristol Cathedral Choir School, St Katherine's School and Trinity Academy) and six primary schools (Victoria Park, Cathedral Primary, Stoke Park, St Werburgh’s, Hotwells and Victoria Park). Three further primary schools will be joining the Trust later this year. This will be a key role within the Cathedral Schools Trust (CST) central team supporting the HR & Recruitment Manager and partnering with other members of the HR team in the delivery of an effective people strategy that delivers school improvement and achieves our Trust goals.
If you can demonstrate that you possess the necessary experience, knowledge and qualifications, and aspire to our values and vision, then we would like to hear from you.
- Applications should be received as soon as possible and no later than midnight on Sunday 2nd June 2024
- Interviews will be held at St Katherine’s School, Pill (exact date tbc)
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Cathedral Schools Trust are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Cathedral Schools Trust is an equal opportunities employer and recognises the strength in diversity. Our schools have a wide range of cultural, socio economic and religious influences and we use this to ensure that we broaden our understanding of each other and the world.
Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
What the school offers its staff
Cathedral Schools Trust offer the following package:
- Competitive pension schemes through Teachers Pensions or LGPS
- Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted gym membership (PureGym and Nuffield Health)
- Continuing Professional and Leadership development
- The CST Central team operate on a flexible hybrid working pattern.
- Free parking onsite at St Katherine's School
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.
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About Cathedral Schools Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@cathedralschoolstrust.org
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