HR Officer & Executive Assistant (0.5 FTE)
Big Creative Academy
Waltham Forest
- £13,000 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- November 2021
- Apply by:
- 5 November 2021
Job overview
Post Title: HR Officer & Executive Assistant (0.5 FTE)
Salary: £26,000 per annum, £13,000 pro rata
Full/part time: part time, permanent position
Hours: 17.5 hours per week
Start Date: November 2021
Reporting to: Principal
Location: Big Creative Academy, Clifton Avenue, Walthamstow E176HL
Purpose of the role: To manage all HR functions of the Academy, to provide advice to the Principal and Senior Management Team on HR strategy and employment law and support the leadership team with administrative tasks
Principal Accountabilities:
• To provide an efficient, effective HR service that meets the needs of staff and the Academy.
• To ensure compliance with all employment law.
• To maintain the single central register and complete all DBS checks, ensuring compliance with the safeguarding policy.
• To provide managers with comprehensive reports on recruitment, sickness, staff disciplinaries
• To write and review HR polices, staff handbooks and recruitment and induction processes.
Key Tasks:
• To develop and lead the human resources work to provide the Academy with managed access to comprehensive, reliable, relevant and up-to-date information and reports.
• To oversee staff recruitment, coordinate interviews and lead on staff inductions.
• To ensure statutory compliance for HR is met and employment law is followed
• To oversee staff grievances, disciplinaries and staff wellbeing.
• To oversee probation and appraisal completion.
• Record all staff leave, sickness and provide monthly reports.
• To oversee the completion of the single central register and ensure compliance with safeguarding and Ofsted.
• To record all CPD for staff and collect staff evaluations.
• To demonstrate commitment to all Academy policies including Health & Safety, Safeguarding, Equality & Diversity and the quality improvement plan.
• To provide an administrative function to the senior management team, taking minutes, supporting with event’s and meetings as required.
• Updating cross academy policies and documents.
• To participate in staff development activities as appropriate to the role.
• To assist colleagues and other departmental teams to ensure an efficient and effective cross-academy service.
Other tasks
1. Participate in student results days, enrolment and induction.
2. Plan, manage and ensure the effective deployment of the resource requirements for the services that are the responsibility of the role.
3. Support the Academy to provide and outstanding education offer.
This job description is designed to outline a range of main duties that may be encountered. It is not designed to be an exhaustive listing of tasks and can be varied in consultation with the post holder in order to reflect changes in the job or the organisation
Person Specification
Qualifications/Competencies:
Degree or equivalent qualification in Human resources
Relevant Experience:
Experience of leading or working within a HR department.
Experience of providing administrative support to a senior team.
Experience of staff recruitment, safer recruitment practices and maintaining a single central register
Knowledge:
Knowledge of employment law
Staff wellbeing and staff development.
Safer recruitment practices, interviewing and staff induction.
Appraisal and CPD processes.
Skills/Ability:
Excellent planning, organisation, IT and administrative skills, the ability to work on a range of tasks and see them through to a successful conclusion, and a general high level of efficiency.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative.
Ability to be forge and maintain meaningful relationships with staff and external stakeholders.
Personal Skills:
Demonstrate enthusiasm.
Aptitude for hard work, the ability to take initiatives, a flexible approach and an ability to implement change.
Attached documents
About Big Creative Academy
Big Creative Academy
Big Creative Academy (BCA) is a post-16 free school specialising in the creative industries. We believe that teaching skills employers want and empowering young people to think reflectively enables positive outcomes for students and our wider community. Big Creative Academy is committed to wellbeing and excellent teaching. We have recently had an Ofsted inspection and were judged Grade 2 ‘Good’, with inspectors recognising that the Academy makes a significant difference to the outcomes for young people. We have high expectations of our staff and students and want to be recognised as one of the leading providers of vocational programmes in the creative arts. We are already a DfE best practice school for LGBT+.
Big Creative Academy opened in September 2014 and have 300 students, aged 16-19, primarily studying Level 3 vocational qualifications. Our students are diverse and challenging and ultimately extremely rewarding to work with. Our study programmes specialise in music, fashion, media, gaming, events, performing arts as well as GCSE Maths and English. The Academy is lively! We are well connected with industry and all of our teaching staff have industry experience. We also have industry ambassadors from companies such as MTV, ITN, Barcroft Media and Island Records and experts are kind enough to provide masterclasses for students. Our focus on skills, wellbeing and networks gives our students the edge in a competitive marketplace.
The Team
Sacha Corcoran MBE is Principal of the Academy, an inspiring self-made woman involved in education for over 20 years. She has brought together a small outstanding team who are committed to the vision and ethos of the Academy. There are three senior managers, 17 teaching staff and ten in business support. Our team are high achievers and have interesting and diverse backgrounds. Many are have their own creative careers as musicians, actors, producers and fashion designers and all have a passion for creativity.
Some of the benefits of working at Big Creative Academy
Big Creative Academy has a Wellbeing Manifesto promoting positive relationships, resilience and reflection which extends to staff as well as students. We want our team to be productive and happy.
The Academy provides the following benefits:
- A staff wellbeing day
- Admin days built into the academic year
- An individual CPD plan to bring out your brilliance
- Teaching, learning and assessment groups to share best practice and try new teaching techniques
- Opportunities to learn from your creative colleagues, for example, learning how to DJ, sew, improve your photoshop skills
- An employee assistance line for people to talk through difficulties confidentially, with solutions often offered to partners
- Full pension benefits in either the Teachers Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme.
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