Trust Recruitment & HR Advisor
Cockburn Multi Academy Trust, Leeds, LS11 5TT13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
December 2025
Closing date
13 October 2025 at 10am
Date listed
30 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £34,434.00 - £36,363.00 Annually (FTE) SO1, SCP 23-25
Trust Recruitment & HR Advisor job summary
Post: Trust Recruitment & HR Advisor
Required: December 2025
Pay scale and salary: SO1, SCP 23-25 (£34,434 - £36,363 per annum FTE)
Hours of work: 37 hours a week (Mon - Thu, 8-4, and Fri 8-3.30)
Contract: Maternity Cover - All year round
Location: Trust Central Team based at Cockburn School
Join Us in Shaping a Safer, Stronger Workforce Across Our Trust
Are you passionate about people, process, and purpose? In this role you’ll play a vital role in ensuring our Trust is staffed with exceptional individuals who are recruited fairly, safely, and efficiently. This is more than just a recruitment role — it’s an opportunity to influence how we attract, onboard, and retain talent, while upholding the highest standards of safeguarding and compliance.
Working closely with school leaders, you’ll lead the full recruitment lifecycle, oversee onboarding, and ensure all statutory checks are in place. You’ll also contribute to wider HR initiatives, casework, and quality assurance across our academies. If you're a proactive, detail-focused professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is committed to making a difference in education, we’d love to hear from you.
Why join us:
- Competitive rates of pay
- A comprehensive induction, appraisal and continued professional development program
- Auto enrolment to West Yorkshire Pension Scheme/ Teachers Pension
- Enhanced occupational benefits such as leave of absence, adoption, maternity & paternity pay
- A range of working patterns dependent on role/ level
- Access to cover pool/Flexible day
- Access to Blue Light Card
- Access to Employee Assistance programme including counselling, CBT, physiotherapy and virtual GP
- Trained Mental Health First Aiders on each Academy site
- Wellbeing and Menopause Policy and Groups
- Free Onsite parking
- Access to gym facilities on some sites
- Regular wellbeing and social activities
- Generous & supportive leave of absence policy
- Access to a range of discounts
If you would like to discuss the role further, please get in contact on 0113 2719962 or email recruitment@cockburnmat.org. You are welcome to come visit, meet the team and see what we have to offer.
You must be fully committed to optimising the opportunities that are available to children and young people, secure in the knowledge that you will be joining an ambitious, forward-thinking Academy Trust that sets the standards for our family of schools and academies.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children, and applicants will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.
This post expects the successful candidate to safeguard the welfare of CYP and uphold their professional responsibility.
This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK-either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.
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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