Trust HR Lead
Areté Learning Trust, Stokesley, TS9 5AL11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025 or sooner
Closing date
11 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 October 2024
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
- £49,764.00 - £53,817.00 Annually (Actual) Grade N, Scale Points 40 -44 based on qualifications and experience
Trust HR Lead job summary
Thank you for your interest in this vacancy. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Trust at an exciting point in its development and provides an opening for a keen, highly organised and talented HR professional to become a key member of our central support services team. Our HR team provides dedicated and tailored professional support and guidance across the Trust on a full range of people related issues.
The successful candidate will provide the overall strategic and operational leadership and management for all aspects of Human Resources in the Trust. Working within the central team, this post will provide high quality support to schools. In addition, it will offer the chance to develop, lead and manage staff, develop high quality systems and services whilst ensuring that resources and systems are effectively deployed to meet the educational aims of the Trust.
The main place of work will be at ALT Central Office, however the post holder must be able to travel and be prepared to work flexibly according to the needs of the business.
Job Details
Hours of Work: 37 Hours Per Week, Full Year
Salary Grade: Grade N
Position Type: Permanent
Line Manager: Chief Finance & Operations Officer (CFOO)
Travel Required: Yes
The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.
Key Responsibilities:
Drive alignment between HR strategy and business goals
Support for the HR Team in the delivery of the strategy across the Trust
Manage complex employee relations casework
Support the efficient and effective recruitment of staff across the Trust
Produce management reports and undertake statistical analysis, reporting HR metrics
What We’re Looking For:
- Proven experience in HR
- Excellent organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently.
- Ability to work well under pressure and manage sensitive information with discretion.
- A collaborative team player with leadership qualities and a keen eye for detail.
What We Can Offer:
- Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies and local government
- Generous holiday entitlement of 28 days rising to 34 after 5 years' service
- Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Comprehensive training package with The National College
- A collaborative team player with leadership qualities and a keen eye for detail.
- Expenses and travel costs
- Comprehensive suite of employee benefits
For an informal chat about the role or to visit the school please contact Craig Davidge, CFOO by emailing cdavidge@arete.uk
We are a growing Multi-Academy Trust consisting of nine schools (five secondary schools and four primary schools), all rated 'Good' or 'Outstanding' by Ofsted. We are delighted that Broomfield School and Nunthorpe Academy are to join the Trust, meaning we will be a Trust of eleven schools by January 2025.
Each school within our trust has its own unique values and ethos and is committed to the overarching principle of "Being the best we can be", the mission statement of Areté Learning Trust. Our Trust seeks to create a context for all children and young people to thrive, academically, personally and socially so that they experience the real joy of learning.
This is an exciting time on the next step of the journey for the newly merged Areté Learning Trust and provides the opportunity to establish an even stronger trust, with greater autonomy to set direction and deliver the outcomes important to all of us. The trust is committed to inclusive high-quality education, providing outstanding education for all and trust wide sustained school improvement.
We are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff where they can develop as exemplary professionals. In addition, we offer a positive, supportive, friendly working environment, recognition of previous service with other schools, academies and local government, CPD, training courses and webinars, expenses and travel costs in addition to a full range of employee benefits.
Application Process
Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied with in the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.
Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date.
The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
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 Areté Learning Trust
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- Multi-academy trust
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