25 hours per week, Term Time + 2 weeks, ideally Monday to Friday

The People Advisor role at Greenwood Academies Trust presents a fantastic opportunity to join our team. You’ll mainly support our East Coast Academies, which consist of one secondary and six primary schools. Your contribution will be key to the effective operation of our People Directorate, ensuring our service runs smoothly and positively impacts the Trust.

This is a home-based role, but does require travel for in-person meetings, support and site visits, enabling your time to be split between:

·      - Managing an employee relations caseload, on matters such as absence, conduct, capability, pay and grievances, with responsibility for ensuring case documentation is complaint with policy and employment law. 

·         - Advising and supporting line managers, including delivery of L&D initiatives.   

·        - Project/policy development focused tasks including organisational change, process improvements and customer experience initiatives.

About You:

An experienced HR practitioner, ideally gained within an education and/or union environment, with a proven track record of managing employee relations cases to a successful resolution.

As an integral member of our team, you will collaborate closely with colleagues while also demonstrating the ability to work independently and take initiative.  

Preferably CIPD Level 5 (or working towards), you will have strong knowledge of Microsoft packages and be familiar with HR systems to utilise our people metric data to inform service delivery and offering alternative perspective to help drive improvements.

This is a true generalist HR position and will suit a strong customer focused individual, with excellent communication skills and who is comfortable with change and turning ideas into action.

About us:

The People Directorate are responsible for supporting our 38 Academies and Central Team to deliver the best education to our 19,000+ pupils. Greenwood Academies Trust have grown successfully from our opening school in Nottingham in 2009 to the large Trust we are today, and the outcomes and opportunities for our pupils and colleagues are getting better and better. A browse of our website will give you a glimpse into some of the unique ways we achieve our vision and mission, but there is no substitute for seeing it in action! If you're interested in joining us, please get in touch.  

In return we have multiple benefits for our talented and highly valued people:

Alongside nationally agreed terms and conditions, we offer a generous benefits package. Here's a selection of what's on offer to our people in recognition of the huge difference they make to our children, their families and the communities we serve.

• A free, 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme - confidential & compassionate support when you need it
• Train & qualify as a Mental Health First Aider. We aim to have a qualified Mental Health First Aider in each academy
• Eye tests & Spectacles Discount
• Generous public sector pension schemes for everyone
• Family friendly policies and time off for dependants
• Dedicated ECT support programme
• Access to exclusive offers and discounts of up to 20% across Dell systems and electronics
• Access to savings in childcare costs
• Supporting professional development through CPD, Apprenticeships, Upskilling and Professional Review
• Generous annual leave allocation
• Automatic pay progression
• Free parking on all sites
• Principles on workload & directed time for teaching staff
• Professional Supervision for Academy Leaders

If this post attracts sufficient interest before the closing date, we may decide to close and interview this vacancy at an earlier date, so an early application is advised.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All posts will be subject to receipt of satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure, medical and reference checks.  All pre-employment checks are in line with "Keeping Children Safe in Education”.

The Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.

All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.