This is a permanent role working 36 hours per week (Monday to Friday) /52 weeks per year. 

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious CIPD qualified HR professional to join the HR team at the Howard Partnership Trust (THPT). Reporting to the Head of People, your knowledge and experience of employee relations particularly in case management will be essential as well as managing a team of HR Advisors and Assistants in this multi-site role. Your base will be in Oxted School, Oxted, although there will be a requirement to travel across the Trust schools within Surrey.

You will bring experience of excellent management of Employee Relations; Change Management including TUPE, with a proven track record of effective relationship management based on trust and integrity as you will be working closely with Senior Leaders and Principals.

The ideal candidate will be a tenacious, influential and a solution focused HR Generalist who will be an excellent team player providing highly effective commercial advice and support to our academies. You will support the Head of People in delivering the People Strategy as well as supporting academies on operational delivery of recruitment, managing performance, payroll, reward and recognition, policy development, HR training, TUPE and restructuring programmes.

Your excellent knowledge of employment law will enable you to work at pace, autonomously and be able to build good working relationships quickly with key stakeholders. You will provide day to day information, advice and guidance on a broad range of HR issues to academies, Trust Officers and other key stakeholders within the Trust.

No Agencies please

 All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations. 

The Howard Partnership 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.

As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

SAFEGUARDING AND FURTHER INFORMATION  

The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).  

The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment  

Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.