Trust HR Assistant

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

44 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  November 2025

• Closing date

  8 September 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  18 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week, term time plus 5 days (plus days and whole-time working negotiable)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,104 to £22,965
• Pay scale: Grade F, SCP 7 to 8

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual with good administrative and IT skills to join our Central Services HR Team. The successful candidate will need a pro-active approach to work, with the ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively while using their initiative and working independently when needed.

As a Trust HR Assistant, you will be based in the Spark Education Trust Central Offices at Whinstone Primary School. Here, you will work as part of the Central Services HR Team alongside the Trust’s HR Director and HR Officers. The purpose of this role is to provide effective HR administrative support to the Trust HR Director, Trust HR Officers, Headteachers and School Administrators. Providing this support will encompass being responsible for data input across various systems while ensuring filing systems are kept up to date. You will also be the first point of contact with regards to HR queries, monitoring the HR / Vacancies inbox and answering the phones, escalating them when appropriate.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with previous administrative / HR experience who is keen to further develop themselves within the HR field. Fully funded CIPD training is available, as well as a wealth of experience from the Trust HR Director and Trust HR Officers to support you in furthering your professional development within HR.

What the school offers its staff

• A positive and caring ethos and working atmosphere
• Friendly children, eager to learn and achieve
• An aspirational curriculum for all students
• A committed, enthusiastic and supportive staff team
• Excellent support from the Governing Body, the staff and parents/carers
• 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.

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Trust HR Assistant Candidate Pack - Sept. 2025.pdf - 258 KB (opens in new tab)

About Spark Education Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: shussain@sparkeducation.org.uk
• 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.

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