HR and Admin Officer

Contract type: Permanent, Full time, Full year OR term time only plus 4 weeks, 37 hours per week

Location: Based at The Kingsway School (two sites)

Required from: Immediate start or as soon as possible

Salary: NJC Scale 6 Point 18 – 22, full time all year round (£29,269 - £31,364) pro rata term time only plus 2 weeks (£26,157.59 - £28,031.49)

Closing date: 3rd June 2024 at 12.00pm midday   

Interview date: 7th June 2024

The opportunity has arisen for a person with relevant skills and experience to join us as our new HR and Admin Officer. The key purpose of the role is to deliver a highly professional, effective and efficient HR and Administration service to the Academy School ensuring that all duties adhere to best practice and meet all statutory and regulatory requirements.

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 450 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities. 

As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings 
• Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.

All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.  It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).

Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Please return applications to recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk for the attention of Louise Rolf, HR Administrator. 

If you would value an informal discussion about the post, please contact Mrs Emma Sorsby - School Business Manager 0161 428 7706 ext 4004