Senior HR Officer

Unity Mat, Birmingham, B46 3JE

4 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  24 April 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  20 April 2026

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: £27,622.00 - £30,428.00 Annually (Actual)

Senior HR Officer job summary

The Role

The Senior HR Officer will play a key role within the Core Team, overseeing the day-to-day Hr operations across the Trust. The successful candidate will supervise a team of HR officers, ensuring robust HR processes, strong compliance, and excellent service to our schools.

Reporting to the Trust HR Manager, this role is key in helping to maintain effective HR & Payroll systems and procedures that support the Trust's operational efficiency.

It is anticipated that you will be based at Woodlands School in Coleshill however, there will be some requirement to visit all of our schools on a regular basis in line with the needs of the service. There is also flexibility to work at our other schools and for occasional homeworking, as appropriate and agreed.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the HR service across the Trust on a day-to-day basis
• Line manager and support members of the HR team, ensuring high standards of performance and service delivery
• Undertake recruitment processed for internal and external roles and provide quality assurance checks on recruitment files
• Onboard new employees ensuring they are set up on relevant systems and co-ordinating induction with line mangers
• Process leaving employees ensuring notification of leaving is acknowledged and systems are updated
• Process contract changes and adjustments affecting payroll and undertake monthly checking of payroll reports
• Supporting the preparation of reports, including absence management reports
• Preparing for and assisting with reviews, e.g. audits and internal scrutiny
• Providing HR advice and dealing with queries
• Ensure compliance with Trust policies, employment legislation and statutory guidance
• Work collaboratively with schools and the Core Team to provide efficient HR support

About You

We are looking for a proactive and organised professional who combines strong HR knowledge with excellent leadership and communication skills. The successful candidate will have:

• Experience working in a HR role, ideally within the education or public sector
• Experience of managing or supervising staff
• Strong knowledge of Hr processes including recruitment, payroll, statutory guidance and employment law
• Experience of HR & payroll systems (preferably Access) and MIS systems (preferably Arbor)
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• The ability to build positive working relationships with colleagues across multiple sites
• Good IT skills and experience of using Microsoft sysytems

Rewards & Benefits

We offer:

• a competitive salary (pay award pending)
• access to the local government pension scheme and significant employer contribution (currently 18.7%)
• excellent training and development opportunities
• enhanced employee assistance programme (including financial & legal advice and carer support for employee and household members)
• well-being app
• Occupational Health service
• a friendly and inclusive working envirnment
• talented, dedicated and hardworking colleagues
• Family Friendly & Employee Health & Well-Being policies
• Term time working with some flexibility to take leave in term time
• Free parking

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 Unity Mat

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Unity Mat website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/unity-mat

Unity MAT is a small ambitious Trust made up of 3 special schools in Warwickshire.
Originally founded in 2017, by Brooke and Woodlands schools, the Trust was joined in September 2021 by Welcombe Hills .
All 3 schools are all through special schools with a whole range of complex needs. This means that they have a shared understanding of the challenges and issues our schools face, whilst recognising and appreciating that each school—and each child—is different.

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