HR Manager
Cornwallis Academy
Maidstone, Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- 40,608 - £46,501 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- July 2022
- Apply by:
- 1 July 2022
Job overview
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours per week: Full-time, 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Working Hours: Mon-Thu 9am – 5pm & Friday 9am – 4:30pm
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join our aspirational community of schools with a relentless ambition for young people. Reporting directly to the CEO, our new HR Manager will work closely with senior leaders to drive and implement an HR strategy that supports our commitment to maintaining a strong moral purpose in a supportive but challenging culture, where continuous development of excellent Teaching and Learning is fundamental to all we do.
As a Trust we pledge to nurture a safe and engaging environment in which we all thrive, and our HR Manager will ensure that our people practices deliver this pledge for our staff, through your overall strategic and operational leadership of the HR function. Accountable for delivering efficient, well-informed and cost-effective HR processes and advice on managing people throughout the whole employee lifecycle, you will provide robust employment advice to support senior and middle leaders in their ambitions to deliver the highest quality of education across our family of two secondary schools, our primary school and nursery. You will live our values of integrity, respect and resilience, working collaboratively with colleagues and other stakeholders. You will hold a CIPD qualification at level 5 or above and have a minimum of three years management experience.
In return, we offer a vibrant and exciting place to work, in a friendly and supportive environment, with a wider reward package that includes access to Benenden corporate healthcare and a cycle to work scheme.
As part of our commitment to safer recruitment practices, we can only accept applications on the Trust application form. CVs cannot be considered.
Future Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the person specification and will be required to apply for an enhanced DBS disclosure. We particularly welcome applicants from under- represented groups including those based on ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
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About Cornwallis Academy
Cornwallis is a fully inclusive school, enabling all students to be the best they can be by having ‘ambitions for all’. In line with our ‘SMILE’ ethos, our aim is to motivate, inspire, excite and engage all students so that they can be successful.
We place students’ wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. A strong community ethos permeates, throughout the school, focusing on learning and progress as well as the whole child. Our popularity continues to grow with record student numbers at an all-time high.
Our aim is to ensure that all students achieve their full potential within a safe and nurturing environment. We also aim for all our students to develop as confident, courteous and capable young people.
We have an excellent team of teaching and support staff, who are committed to ensuring lessons are engaging and challenging. We offer support where support is needed and stretch and challenge each child to do the best they can. It is important for us to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum to allow students to discover their interests.
We offer a number of prestigious scholarship programmes, in Art, Football (in partnership with Maidstone United Football Club) and Dance (in partnership with Maidstone Dance Studios).
We are also proud of the pastoral care we provide for our students and do everything in our power to make them feel valued and part of a community.
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