HR Manager
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Culford School
Suffolk
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01 September 2025
- Apply by:
- 22 August 2025
Job overview
- Permanent, Full-time, Office Based, 52 weeks per year
- Working hours: 37½ hours per week - 08.30 - 17.00 Monday to Friday
- Salary: £36,000 - £38,000 depending on experience plus benefits
- Holiday entitlement: 28 days per annum plus bank holidays. May Day is a working day
- Start Date: ASAP
- Manage and/or advise on complex employee relations cases including dispute resolutions, investigations, grievances, capability, disciplinaries, redundancies, performance, attendance and TUPE transfers, ensuring consistency of decision making within the business to minimise risk or breaches in policy or employment legislation and liaise with specialist external advisers on any specific matters requiring their input in such cases
- Advise managers on the terms and conditions of employment
- Manage occupational health referrals
- Proactively identify and address performance and absence concerns and provide appropriate support and guidance for effective resolution as well as carry out return to work meetings
- Line Manage the HR Administrator, providing advice and direction where needed on work priorities
- Handle HR matters for inspections and compliance
- Maintain the Single Central Register for audit on a regular basis
- Taking notes for meetings as required
- Oversee the recruitment and selection of staff including the onboarding and offboarding process
- Interviewing and ability testing for relevant posts, ensuring that applicants are correctly assessed and matched to the requirements of the job
- Manage the process for all self-employed and contractors ensuring all statutory checks are carried out
- Ensure employment law, HR policy and best practice are applied at all times
- Manage the performance review programme for Operations employees
- Regularly coach, mentor, and support colleagues to identify individual strengths and development needs
- Ensure employee training requirements are well managed and monitored
- Monitor the training and development plans and ensure they are of a high standard
- Manage the diversity, equality, and inclusion values and practices within the company
- Demonstrate a high-performance ethic with a focus on successful outcomes
- Develop and maintain effective relationships to encourage retention
- Bridge management and employee relations by addressing demands, grievances or other issues
- CIPD qualification (or equivalent) or relevant professional qualification/experience in a people related position
- Strong attention to detail and listening skills
- Confident communicator, both written and verbal
- Strong problem solving and mediation skills
- Prior experience in a generalist or HR management role, with considerable autonomy
- Proven expertise in employee relations and a thorough understanding of employment law
- Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to prioritise own workload
- Understanding of data protection, the Equality Act and health and safety
- A confident leader with experience in leading a team
- The ability to develop strong working relationships and drive collaboration
- The ability to accept and provide feedback, be challenged on your advice and work well under pressure
- The ability to assert your opinion and ideas with confidence
- The capacity to make quick but rational decisions, think innovatively and rationally about decisions and come up with creative solutions
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages
- Knowledge of Google suite desirable but not essential
- Experience working in an HR role within an educational establishment desirable but not essential
- 28 days holiday plus bank holidays (excluding May Day)
- Eligible to join the Health Cash Plan after 6 months service
- Life assurance (after 6 months’ service)
- Free lunch
- Onsite parking
- Culford Sports Centre gym membership and use of swimming pool
- Staff wellness sessions during term-time including circuits
- Enhanced employer pension contributions to 5% with the ability to salary sacrifice
- Staff support programme including counselling, financial and legal support
- Staff discount on school fees
- Staff discount on Culford summer activity camps
- Support for training and on-going personal development
- Staff event days - annual Staff BBQ & Picnic in the Park for employees and families
- Entry to the Culford Classic Car show
- Staff discount at Adnams Bury St Edmunds, B&Q and All Saints Hotel
Attached documents
About Culford School
Welcome to Culford.
Any visit to or interaction with our school will be that - a genuine welcome.
Ours is a school that places human kindness and respect at the very heart of everything we go on to achieve.
On paper, Culford is a lot to take in. A school for girls and boys from age 1 to 18. A school for both day and boarding pupils but with the unmistakable soul of a boarding school. A school supporting elite specialist sporting pathways with international recognition. A school for members of our local community, our national community, and a global community that enriches everyone’s experience - opening our eyes to the world beyond our incredible setting.
And what a setting, all 480 acres of it. We are very lucky to call this ‘park’ our home. Yet in reality - looking past the grand mansion and sweeping acreage - this is a purposefully small, happily close community of people who all come to school or work for the same reason each day; to improve. To be a better version of myself tomorrow than I was today.
This is the true spirit of Culford.
No moment wasted to improve.
No moment wasted to enjoy.
Together, with courage and compassion.
Head
Claire Bentley
Values and vision
Culford School was originally founded in the Methodist tradition and as a result takes pride in the cultural and spiritual development of its pupils. Students are instilled with a strong moral code and encouraged to value themselves and the work they produce, as well as to always have respect for their fellow pupils and staff members.
ISI report
“The quality of pupils’ personal development throughout the school is excellent and is supported by strong pastoral care. Pupils have high levels of moral and social awareness, and a clear sense of right and wrong, demonstrating emotional maturity. They treat each other with tolerance and respect and there are excellent relationships between staff and pupils.”
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