Regional HR Manager (West Yorkshire)
Co-op Academy Leeds
Leeds
- £41,083 - £46,793 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- + benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 9 January 2023
Job overview
We’re looking for an experienced HR Manager to join our team supporting academy schools in Bradford & Leeds
You’ll help drive school improvement and culture change through ‘high challenge, high support’ professional HR advice across the full employee life-cycle. This will involve leading on-site HR colleagues to ensure excellent HR practice within the academies, and proactively working with the academies’ senior leadership teams.
This is a new role, adding capacity to our HR team, with an in-depth focus on two of our secondary academies - and we’re looking for someone who will have a clear impact on staff absence management outcomes.
You’ll be working closely with the Executive Headteacher, and the two academy Headteachers, to review each academy’s HR strategy and support the implementation of changes, where required. You’ll also be managing complex employee relations cases and trade union relations, facilitating organisational development, and upskilling line managers in HR management practice.
Reporting to the Chief People Officer, you’ll also be an active member of our wider Regional HR Manager team, working across our organisation as a whole to support casework, deliver training, and lead on HR workstreams.
CIPD qualified (or equivalent), you must have previous experience of advising on a wide range of employee issues, including absence management, recruitment & retention, and complex casework, ideally within a school setting. A pragmatic team-player with great organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to drive work forward on your own initiative, you’re able to build strong working relationships with, and influence the work of others, and are flexible, self-motivated & resilient.
This is a great opportunity for someone looking to broaden their HR experience in a friendly and supportive team.
Although based mainly at two sites, occasional travel to other academies (which currently includes Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Merseyside) will be required. Own transport is desirable, and a willingness to travel and work flexibly (with due notice) is essential. There’s an expectation that the appointee will be on site at our academies most of the time, with some opportunities for ad hoc working from home during the school holidays.
Benefits
30 days annual leave + bank holidays
Local government pension scheme
Co-op staff discount and other benefits
How to apply
Closing date: 9am, Monday 09 January 2023
Applications must be on our application form, which is available along with other supporting information on our website at https://www.coopacademies.co.uk/vacancies/ and returned to centralrecruitment@coopacademies.co.uk
For more information about the Trust, please visit www.coopacademies.co.uk
Co-op Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults as its number one priority. This commitment to robust recruitment, selection and induction procedures extends to organisations and services linked to the Trust. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnerships. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, and online checks will be carried out.
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About Co-op Academy Leeds
Co-op Academy Leeds is a ‘Good’ school (Ofsted, Nov 2022) and on the back of our recent successes we’re fully committed to getting even better.
Here at Co-op Academy Leeds, we aim to ensure everyone has the opportunity to flourish, both academically and socially. We expect students and staff to have the courage to aim high, the commitment to persevere – even when the going gets tough – and the mindset which will allow them to grow.
Teaching and learning sit right at the heart of everything we do – nothing else matters if the learning culture is not good enough. We focus relentlessly on ensuring staff receive regular, relevant and useful professional development, much of which is provided and delivered by our in-house Teaching & Learning Team. Anyone who joins us is expected to contribute to this sharing culture.
We have high expectations – and unstinting moral values. As an integral part of Co-op Academies Trust, we espouse the core Co-op values (Self-help, Self-responsibility, Solidarity, Democracy, Equity and Equality) and have adopted the 4 Ways of Being Co-op: Be yourself, always; Do what matters most; Show you care; Succeed together.
We also enjoy the significant support of the Trust and the Sponsor, which brings with it a range of opportunities and benefits, alongside a less “formal” package of colleagues working together to look after their well-being and forge stronger relationships.
We really are all about providing the best we can for everyone – making sure our students leave here and move on to better things, whatever their starting points and backgrounds.
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