This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting recruitment and HR administration across our Trust. You will coordinate the recruitment process from vacancy creation through to onboarding, ensuring an efficient and professional experience for candidates and managers while maintaining the highest standards of safeguarding compliance.

The successful candidate will support safer recruitment processes, maintain the Trust’s Single Central Register, manage HR records and employee data, monitor absence information, and provide high-quality administrative support across the employee lifecycle.

We are looking for someone who has strong administrative and organisational skills with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage confidential information.

You will need to be a confident user Microsoft Office systems. 

Experience within education or knowledge of safeguarding requirements in schools would be advantageous, but not essential.

Closing Date: Sunday 31 May 2026. Please apply at the earliest opportunity. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive applications from outstanding candidates.

Applicants must complete the Trust’s application form via My New Term- we cannot accept CVs.  When applying, please complete all sections of the application form and ensure that you do not leave any gaps in your qualification/work history and that you give details of any periods not accounted for by full time employment, education or training. Forms with missing sections and/or gaps may not be considered.

Our vacancies are advertised on the MyNewTerm platform. To apply for these please click the vacancies button, or scroll down further to see our live jobs.

Wootton Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Wootton Academy Trust is committed to diversity in our workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community.  The role is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.  All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

Wootton Academy Trust supports Equal Opportunities Employment.

A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES - We prefer to hire people directly. We’ll be in touch if we need you!