People Partner
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Westminster School
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- £56,000 PA
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 9 October 2026
Job overview
Join Westminster School in a broad and influential People Partner role, working with leaders and managers across one of the country’s leading independent schools.
As part of the People and Payroll team, the successful candidate will provide trusted, practical advice across the full range of people matters, helping managers build effective teams, navigate complex employee relations issues and create a positive working environment. The role works across both academic and operational areas of the School and acts as the designated People Partner to the Under Master and Senior Management Committee of the Great School.
This is a varied role with plenty of scope to make an impact. Alongside managing employee relations matters including performance, capability, absence, disciplinary and grievance cases, the successful candidate will contribute to recruitment and onboarding, employee engagement, wellbeing, EDI, policy development and wider people projects. The role will also involve improving HR processes and the employee experience, supporting a pragmatic, consistent and high-quality approach to people management across the School.
About you
The ideal candidate will be an experienced HR or People professional with strong knowledge of UK employment law and a track record of providing confident, pragmatic advice to managers. Comfortable handling complex and sensitive employee relations matters, they will be able to build credibility quickly, influence at all levels and balance sound professional judgement with a practical approach. Strong communication, relationship-building and organisational skills are essential, together with a commitment to excellent service, inclusion and continuous improvement.
Experience within education is not essential; the School welcomes candidates who can bring relevant People Partnering experience and fresh thinking from other sectors.
Why Westminster School?
Based in the heart of London, Westminster is a distinctive and vibrant place to work, bringing together around 750 pupils and more than 200 teaching and support staff. You will join a close-knit community where support staff are encouraged to play an active part in School life and where professional development and collaboration are strongly valued.
Benefits include:
Generous School pension scheme
Private medical insurance option
Free access to School leisure facilities, including the fitness gym at designated times
Cycle to Work Scheme
Season ticket loans following probation
Professional development opportunities
Discretionary Christmas shutdown period
Free School meals are also available when working on site.
For further information and to apply, please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is midday, Friday 9 October 2026
We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.
About Westminster School
Westminster School is an independent day and boarding school for boys aged 13-18 and girls aged 16-18, with a long history, a distinctive ethos, and a unique sense of place in the very heart of London. Pupils achieve exceptional examination results and entrance to some of the top universities in the world. It is a busy, passionate and purposeful place where independent and deep thinking is enjoyed, encouraged and respected by all, and where holistic excellence is nurtured and valued.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future. At Westminster, pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led societies take place every week at the School, often with expert guest speakers, and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in local primary schools, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.
From September 2028, the School will welcome both girls and boys at 13+ entry, offering a Westminster education to all. By 2026, Westminster Under School will have opened its brand new pre-prep for girls and boys at 4+ and girls will have joined boys in Years 3 and 7, at the 7+ and 11+ entry points. By 2030, all year groups at Westminster School and Westminster Under School, from ages four to 18, will be fully co-educational, reflecting the School’s dedication to inclusivity and excellence.
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