Trust HR Officer
Areté Learning Trust, Stokesley, TS9 5AL14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
October 2026
Closing date
5 October 2026 at 9am
Date listed
21 September 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
- £36,043.00 - £40,399.00 Annually (Actual) Salary is based on Grade J/K, Scale points 27- 32, £39,481 - £44,253 FTE, dependent upon qualifications and experience
Trust HR Officer 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 join 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.
Job Details
Role: Trust HR Officer
Hours of Work: 37 Hours Per Week, Term Time + 2 Weeks (41 weeks per year)
Salary Grade: J/K
Position Type: Permanent
Line Manager: HR & Operations Director
Travel Required: Yes
The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.
Key Responsibilities:
- To provide professional, high quality & responsive operational HR support across the Trust
- Work alongside internal & external stakeholders to support the effective delivery of HR services
- Support School Leaders to develop their skills through the provision of professional advice, support & coaching
- Support the efficient and effective recruitment of staff across the Trust
- Support schools with complex casework
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
- Expenses and travel costs
- Comprehensive suite of employee benefits
For an informal chat about the role or to visit the Trust please contact Andrea Preston, HR & Operations Director by emailing anpreston@arete.uk
About the Trust
Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.
At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.
Our Trust is committed to promoting:
High standards and expectations
Integrity, kindness and good manners
Respect for individuality and difference
Collaborative working to secure excellence
To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.
Why work for us?
We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.
We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.
In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.
Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.
Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.
Regardless of role, we seek staff who:
Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.
Are committed to our Trust values.
Show initiative and are responsive to change.
Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.
Are creative in their approach to problem solving.
Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.
Are team players.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers). If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.
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. Online searches may be done as part of due diligence 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.
Further information about the job
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.
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- Multi-academy trust
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