Trust HR Officer
Learning Without Limits Academy Trust, Leicester, LE2 6FU16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 January 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
19 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): 37 hours per week for 52 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £34,314 and £37,035
Pay scale
- Grade 7 Scale Point 19-22
What skills and experience we're looking for
Learning without Limits is a Trust with high ambitions for its learners and we are excited to be appointing to a brand-new role of Trust HR Officer to help us on our journey and to strengthen our HR Services offer to our Academies.
To be successful in this post you will bring with you a proven track record in HR in an education context and have a high level of emotional intelligence and professional curiosity to provide our staff with exemplary HR support.
You will be based at our central office located at Lancaster Academy with a requirement to travel to the Academies within the Trust, working onsite, as required. An integral part of our central team, you will be working alongside a variety of people in a fast paced but supportive environment and will demonstrate a willingness to go over and above in support of your colleagues.
Why work for us?
LwLAT is a small multi-academy trust based in the heart of Leicester City, serving diverse and vibrant communities. Our strength comes from collaboration, with an emphasis on winning hearts and inspiring minds. We know that by positively celebrating and sharing the great work we are doing, through our vision and values, there are no limits to how high we can aim, and to what our learners, staff and communities can achieve.
You will be given the opportunity to grow professionally and personally in this role.
As a Trust we value inclusive working practices and diverse teams. If you’d prefer to work part-time or as a job-share, please let us know on your application and we’ll facilitate this wherever we can.
You will:
- Have at least 3 years experience working in education in a HR capacity
- Hold, or be working towards, a Level 5 HR qualification.
- Be driven to deliver exemplary HR support through exceptional customer service
- Have up to date working knowledge of current HR legislation, Employment Law and best practice in an education setting
- Have experience of managing a HR caseload including conducting and supporting with internal investigations
- Have the ability to support staff with HR matters whilst sensitively applying policy and procedures
- Be solution focused and proactive; willing to seek out new ways of working
- Have strong IT skills and confidence to use cloud-based software systems efficiently and effectively
What the school offers its staff
- Access to the highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme
- Favourable annual leave entitlement, above the statutory minimum, plus bank holidays.
- Staff Benefits Package - Access to a huge range of savings from retailers such as Currys, Halfords, Wilko, Asda, Tesco, M&S, Morrisons and many more!
- Cycle to Work – In partnership with Pluxee, this initiative allows you to make huge Tax and National Insurance savings on the cost of a new bike and safety accessories.
- Green Car Scheme - In partnership with Tusker, eligible employees can choose a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car that comes complete with motor insurance, servicing, maintenance, replacement tyres and RAC breakdown cover, for a fixed monthly amount.
- Through both the Cycle to Work and Green Car Scheme, savings are achieved via salary sacrifice which is managed by the Trust and lets you spread the cost to make payments more convenient.
- Free Financial Support Service from Barclays - support with all aspects of your financial health and wellbeing, and you don't need to be a Barclays customer to use the service.
- Eye Test Vouchers – Free SpecSavers eye test voucher for eligible staff
- Annual Flu Vaccine – Free flu vaccine voucher for eligible staff
- Access to free Counselling sessions following an initial confidential consultation.
- Free onsite parking
- Free tea and coffee
- This post is subject to a successful Disclosure and Barring (DBS) check and satisfactory references.
Closing date: 5pm Monday 6th January 2025
Interviews will be held the week commencing 13th January 2025 at the Trust Offices c/o Lancaster Academy, Knighton Road East, Leicester LE2 6FU.
Further details about the role
Social Media Checks
As part of the shortlisting process, in line with measures identified in statutory guidance relating to safeguarding practice, the Trust will conduct searches on candidates selected for interview, through a third party, on social media in order to identify anything that could give rise to a safeguarding concern in what has been said or done online. Only information relevant to safeguarding concerns obtained from the search will be passed over for consideration during the recruitment process.
Diversity Statement
As an equal opportunities employer, the Learning without Limits Academy Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.
Commitment to safeguarding
LwLAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All employment offers are subject to an Enhanced DBS with barred list check, and a prohibition from teaching check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013, 2020 and 2023). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance is available on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
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About Learning Without Limits Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- info@lwlat.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01162746330
Established in 2016, our Trust operates schools across Leicester and Leicestershire, working with children between the ages of 2 and 16. We are a Trust that prides itself in working within deprived and challenging areas, determined to improve the life chances of all of the children we work with.
Collaboration is at the heart of all of our activity, and whilst all of our schools work in diverse and often challenging contexts, our school communities pull together to support each other overcome the challenges they face.
We value our students, families and staff. We invest in our stakeholders and work with them to be the very best they can be. We listen to their views and respond to ensure that we continue our quest for constant improvement.
We invest in our staff. Our Continuous Professional Development programme draws on the very best we have to offer within our Trust whilst engaging with local partners in order to ensure our staff are highly trained and highly competent as a result. This investment ensures that we are at the cutting edge of current educational practice and at the forefront of innovation.
We challenge existing practice and constantly search for new ideas and solutions. We are on a constant search for improvement and we walk towards new challenges and ways doing things. We have a culture of innovation that supports the implementation of new ideas and staff get exited about stepping in to the unknown and trying things out for the first time.
We care deeply about making a difference and make every effort to remove barriers that get in the way of us supporting everyone we work with. We celebrate the successes and support each other through the challenges, working together as one family of schools for the benefit of the communities we serve.
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