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Senior HR Officer
Cygnus Academies Trust, Swanscombe, DA10 0BU18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
To be confirmed
Closing date
8 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 December 2024
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
- £20,401.31 Annually (Actual)
Senior HR Officer job summary
Post Title: Senior HR Officer
School: Cygnus Academies Trust
Hours: 27 hours per week (these are flexible hours)
Weeks: 38 weeks per year (Term-Time Only)
Grade: Kent Range 8
Salary: £20,401.31 actual salary (£32,769.00 FTE)
Start Date: To be confirmed
Advert Closing Date:8th January 2025 (We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date):
Interview Date: Week commencing 20th January 2025
Cygnus Academies Trust
Cygnus Academies Trust is a dynamic and forward-thinking multi-academy trust, committed to providing exceptional education to young people across the region. We are driven by our core values of Collaboration, Citizenship, Achievement, and Sustainability.
For further information about the trust, please visit Cygnus Academies Trust - Welcome from the Chief Executive- Cygnus Academies Trust
We offer:
Competitive Salary
Local Government Pension Scheme
27 days Annual Leave (rising to 29 after 5 years’ service) plus bank holiday entitlement (pro-rata for part-time)
Employee support services.
Effective CPD opportunities
Excellent ICT facilities
Opportunities for flexible working
The Role
Cygnus Academies Trust are seeking an exceptional Senior HR Officer to join our HR team on a part-time and permanent basis. The Senior HR Officer will be the main contact on HR services, to ensure smooth running of recruitment and HR administration for the Trust.
This person will be responsible for onboarding of all new staff, administering the HR systems, including starters/leavers, users’ permissions and ensuring safer recruitment practices are followed. Liaising with our external HR and payroll providers and maintaining our SCR for all schools within the Trust. They will support line managers and other employees with HR policies and procedures.
They will supervise the payroll function of the Trust, ensuring a timely and accurate monthly payroll is processed. They will assist the payroll officer when pay increases for our teachers and support staff need to be processed within our payroll system and MIS system.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Joanne Reynolds on 01322 224201.
Safer Recruitment
Cygnus Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. In line with Safer Recruitment guidelines, CVs will not be accepted, and you are required to complete the application in full giving details of all employment, training and gaps in employment. Cygnus Academies Trust reserves the right to reject incomplete application forms and any consistencies or anomalies will be explored at, or prior to, interview. Any offer of employment is subject to pre-employment checks including a satisfactory ‘Enhanced with Barred List Check’ through the Disclosure and Barring Service. We will require two satisfactory references; one of which must be your line manager in your present or most recent employment. References will be requested prior to interview so please ensure that your referees are available to provide a reference.
Equal Opportunities
Cygnus Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer committed to diversity and inclusion who welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. All people who work and study at our Trust have the right to be respected and valued within a safe and secure environment and not to be discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Additional Information
- References will be requested for shortlisted applicants prior to interview.
- Shortlisted applicants will be required to complete and return a Self-Disclosure form prior to interview.
- Online Searches will be carried out on shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any concerns will be discussed with candidates at interview.
- Further vetting checks including an enhanced DBS, incorporating a check of the Children’s Barred List, will be undertaken on provisional offer.
- The Child Protection Policy can be found on the school website.
- The Employment of Ex-Offenders Policy can be found on the Trust website
This post is a customer-facing position and falls within the scope of the Code of Practice on English Language Requirement for Public Sector Workers. The school has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.
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 are not accepted.
About Cygnus Academies Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
We are a group of friendly, like-minded schools, working together in the best interest of all our children.
Driven by a desire to collaborate at every level, with an emphasis on staff development and opportunities for all.
Cygnus Academies Trust schools really are a fantastic place to work and learn. Our approach is to allow all schools to retain and celebrate their uniqueness.
While ensuring; great teaching and learning, strong leadership and management, effective local governance, curriculum expertise, visionary business and financial management.
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