HR Manager
Northease Manor School
East Sussex
- £35,000 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Immediate
- Apply by:
- 10 February 2023
Job overview
The School
There are very, very few organisations that genuinely transform lives. Northease is one of them.
Northease Manor is an outstanding independent school for neurodiverse children and young people who have struggled in mainstream schools.
Situated just south of Lewes in East Sussex, the school’s centrepiece is a 17th century manor house set in 12 acres of grounds, surrounded by the rolling countryside of the South Downs. This gives the school a spectacular campus along with plenty of room for sports and outdoor activities. The coast is just four miles away.
The Northease Purpose
‘Making the difference. Transforming lives.’ At Northease we combine specialist expertise with passion and freedom to deliver impactful outcomes for our young people and all those who have touched their lives. We recognise and value difference, and building confidence, character and capability to realise potential right now, tomorrow and for the future.
Our Vision
Our vision is to become the leading special educational needs provider; equipping young people with the skills, attitudes, behaviours and opportunities to flourish. Our ambition is to role-model educational excellence, to be pioneers in research and continuously seek to do better and be better. We aim to provide a personalised education through bespoke solutions, and to allow everyone to overcome challenges with resilience and confidence, and to thrive by achieving one’s potential.
What’s in it for you?
Northease is a wonderful place to work. ‘The behaviour of pupils is often truly impressive, and is outstanding overall’. ‘Almost all are unfailingly polite and courteous’ (latest OFSTED report). Colleagues are inclusive, happy, fun and deeply committed, and the school is set in the most beautiful surroundings imaginable.
Staff wellbeing is a top priority at Northease Manor and we offer a comprehensive wellbeing package including an Employee Assist programme.
The Role
An opportunity has arisen for a permanent, experienced HR Manager to work with leaders across the school with a headcount of 60 staff. Reporting to the Headteacher, the role incorporates both strategic and operational HR. This is a hands-on HR Generalist role, but the key aspects are recruitment, training and staff welfare. This is an excellent opportunity for candidates with experience in:
· leading recruitment, training and staff welfare, particularly in school settings
· CIPD Level 5 qualified/part qualified (or equivalent)
· good understanding of legal and statutory compliance in HR and training
· excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills are essential
· experience of HR within a school environment would be an advantage
If you have energy, enthusiasm and a passion to make a difference, and if you are inspired by the school’s nurturing, holistic, accepting approach, this could be the perfect job for you.
Salary: up to £35,000 depending on experience FTE (salary to be pro-rated)
Start Date: Immediately
Contract: 39 hours per week (4 days). Holidays of 25 days plus public holidays (pro rata)
Safeguarding
Northease Manor is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff will be expected to obtain an enhanced DBS disclosure.
More Information
More details about the school and about this post can be found on the school’s website www.northease.co.uk
How to apply
If you are interested in joining us, please visit our website vacancies page www.northease.co.uk for a full job description and application form. Alternatively, please contact the Headteacher’s PA at pa2headteacher@northease.co.uk (CVs not accepted, application form only).
Closing date: Friday 10th February, 2023
Applications may be submitted electronically to: recruitment@northease.co.uk
Or hard copy by post to: Northease Manor School, Rodmell, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 3EY
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About Northease Manor School
Northease Manor School is an Independent Specialist School approved by the DfE as a co-educational day school for students primarily with Autism and / or Dyslexia or those who present with these type of difficulties. Alongside these, students have other co-occurring difficulties including ADHD, DCD and sensory processing differences. The majority of our students are working at or have the potential to work at age related expectations (or just below) across a range of subjects, follow a differentiated National Curriculum and access GCSE or equivalent qualifications.
We are known and respected for providing high quality teaching, therapy and pastoral support. We promote and recognise that each student is an individual with individual needs, acknowledging that a diagnosis will only provide part of the picture for each student. Our integrated approach to therapy and small teaching classes coupled with the small and close community we have here at Northease, enables us to build excellent relationships and understand students as a whole; we use that knowledge and understanding to ensure the best outcomes for each student. Our aim is to provide the best of what a mainstream setting can offer in terms of a broad and balanced curriculum and excellent educational outcomes within a calm and low arousal environment and with an additional focus of developing essential life skills. The majority of our students have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and their placement is funded through their local authority.
Our location, a spacious country site built round an 18th century manor house, gives everyone room to grow and develop in a school with a true community and family feel. We are an easy commute from Brighton, Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne.
Our most recent Ofsted report (March 2018), where we were rated good across all areas says: ‘A strong theme that emerged was the major difference that Northease Manor makes to pupils’ confidence, well-being and self-esteem. In describing these and similar aspects of the school’s work, parents repeatedly used words such as ‘amazing’, ‘exceptional’, ‘thriving’ and ‘transformed’. One parent summed up the sentiment of many by writing simply: ‘The school changed my child’s life and gave us hope… Very effective use of training, including working in close partnership with the therapy team, is supporting improvements well’
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