HR Manager
The Excelsior Academy
Hackney
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive dependant on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Feb 2017/ASAP
- Apply by:
- 9 February 2017
Job overview
Closing Date: Thursday 9th February 2017
Contract: Full Time
Salary: Competitive dependent on experience
Start Date: February 2017 or ASAP Do you want to work in an academy where “people just love coming to work”?
(Investors in People GOLD 2014) Located in the heart of Hackney, working in partnership with the local community and feeder schools within in the borough, The Petchey Academy has been awarded a Good rating by Ofsted with an Outstanding for Leadership and Management. The Petchey Academy is seeking to appoint dynamic, pioneering and entrepreneurial staff to work at this academy, where there are good opportunities for career advancement supported by strong CPD.
HR Manager
Reporting to the Finance and Operations Director, you will provide a comprehensive, professional and customer-focussed HR Advisory service to all staff and managers across the Academy. The role will support the senior leaders within the Academy to ensure the effective delivery of operational HR activities and ‘people processes’ that meet the requirements of the organisation. This will involve providing an expert employee relations service, ensuring delivery of performance management processes and working with Leads to identify learning and development needs for their teams. In addition, the HR Manager will participate proactively in the scoping, design and launch of key people and change initiatives aligned to the strategic priorities of the Academy. You will have the ability to establish immediate credibility at all levels and have excellent communication skills. You must have a proven track record in dealing with the full spectrum of HR activities and a sound application of HR best practice to workplace scenarios. As a leader within the Academy, it will be your responsibility to ensure that your behaviour and values reflect those required to lead in the Petchey Way. You will need to engage effectively with your HR Administrator, peer group, external/internal stakeholders to ensure support in delivering across the key workforce elements of the Academy’s strategic plans over the next 3 years. You will be passionate about Education and supporting the Academy to create a high performance culture that delivers exemplary outcomes for our students.
The Petchey Academy, under the patronage of Jack Petchey, is dedicated to enabling young people to aspire and succeed. We have adopted his motto and encourage our students to truly believe “If I think I can….I can!” If you are seeking a challenging and rewarding position, enriching the lives of the students who attend The Petchey Academy, then we are keen to hear from you. The Petchey Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Please also note that as part of the Academy’s safer recruitment procedure successful candidate will undergo the enhanced DBS check. To apply please visit our website www.petcheyacademy.org.uk vacancies section .Y��}��
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About The Excelsior Academy
The Excelsior Academy is part of the Community Schools Trust. We serve a wonderfully diverse community, many of whom face challenges through no fault of their own. It is for this reason we want to level the playing field for all of our students, regardless of their background, by providing a world class education.
We care about outcomes at The Excelsior Academy. We know good grades lift life chances and impact health, wealth and even mortality. We know that teachers have the greatest impact on pupil outcomes and so we take professional development seriously, whatever our role in the school. Whether we have taught for two months, two years, or twenty years, we believe in our capacity to always improve in the classroom.
Our CPD provision is comprehensive and fundamental to our commitment to improve. We are invested in our own and each others’ development and use principles of instructional coaching to provide feedback to each other. Our CPD involves deliberate practice, video models of excellent practice and lots of fun! The desire to improve a little bit everyday permeates the culture in our school.
Our approach to teaching is evidence informed. We avoid ‘discovery learning’ methods and instead, we teach explicitly. Our teachers are experts in the classroom and lead from the front. We focus on perfecting routines for behaviour, like entry into lessons and transitions between tasks so that we can maximise time spent on learning. We have excellent behaviour systems which mean teachers can focus on what we love doing most - teaching!
As well as excellent outcomes, we want our students to be well rounded individuals who will thrive beyond school years; that’s why we deliberately teach prosocial behaviours like making eye contact when greeted, listening attentively and showing gratitude. We know these skills will set all of our students up for life, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
When students fall behind, our teachers run interventions outside of their lessons. We provide an extra session after school for all year 11 students so their families don't have to worry about paying for a tutor. Teachers work hard at TEA. Our students deserve nothing less and we expect the highest of standards from them because we know they are capable of achieving them.
But we invest in working smart too: we have a 3 week Christmas holiday, no retrospective book marking, no student report writing and no formal lesson observations!
We recognise talent and impact at The Excelsior Academy. There are lots of opportunities for promotions within the school and Community Schools Trust. Our staff body at all levels is a true reflection of the makeup of the community we serve - we are proud of this and welcome anyone who will add value to our wonderful school community.
We would love to hear from you if you think this sounds like the right place for you! We welcome visits; come and speak to our Headteacher, our staff and check out our lessons! Get in touch with us: email jobs@excelsiorcst.org or call 0207 275 1500 to speak to a member of the HR team.
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