Trust HR Assistant

Spark Education Trust, Stockton-On-Tees, TS17 0RJ

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  12 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  25 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £24,165 to £25,108
• Pay scale: Grade F, SCP 7 to 8

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a motivated and enthusiastic HR Assistant to join our Central Services HR Team. The successful candidate will have strong administrative and IT skills, a proactive and organised approach, and the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines effectively. You will be confident using your initiative, working independently when required and providing a professional and responsive service to colleagues across the organisation.

You will be based at Spark Education Trust Central Offices at Whinstone Primary School, working as part of the Central Services HR Team. You will provide day-to-day HR administrative support to the HR Team, Headteachers and School Administrators across the Trust. This will include supporting recruitment administration, maintaining accurate employee information across a range of systems, and keeping records up to date. You will also be a first point of contact for HR enquiries from staff and applicants, monitoring the HR and Vacancies inboxes and responding to telephone queries, referring or escalating enquiries to the appropriate member of the HR Team where required.

What the school offers its staff

• A positive and caring ethos and working atmosphere
• A committed, enthusiastic and supportive staff team
• Opportunities for career development

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Final Trust HR Assistant Candidate Pack - September 2026.pdf - 346 KB (opens in new tab)

About Spark Education Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: vacancies@sparkeducation.org.uk
• Phone number: 01642 051020
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/vision-academy-learning-trust

About Spark Education Trust.
We are a newly merged Trust comprising 4 secondary and 11 primary schools located across the Tees Valley and we provide opportunities for children and young people to reach their full potential, whatever their starting point. We know that this is best achieved in encouraging environments where mutual and self-respect is promoted. We want to grow confident young people able to work independently and think creatively in a fast-changing world.

We have high expectations for everyone, aspiring to excellence in teaching and achieving impressive standards is all areas of school life. Success beyond the classroom in sport and the arts are features of life across our Trust.

For our staff we provide positive working environments, a commitment to the highest quality professional development, opportunities to collaborate to create excellence and encouragement to forge career success.

Trustees, governors and leaders collaborate closely to ensure excellence in all aspects of Spark Education Trust. Our core values are mutual respect, hearty collaboration and courageous ambition and these drive our work ensuring that Spark schools are wonderful places to work.

Arranging a visit to Spark Education Trust

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancies@sparkeducation.org.uk.

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