HR Advisor

Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale I: £34,834 to £36,648

We are looking for an exceptional HR Advisor to join our Central Services Team to provide day to day HR support across Inspiration Trust Academies. Our HR Advisors operate across multiple sites ensuring academies operate effectively and efficiently in all areas of HR, including compliance, employment law and case management.

Before applying, please read the attached Recruitment Pack and Job Description, for more details about the role. We ask that you read this pack carefully, especially the “Planning your application” section from page 11. This will support your application ensuring you have the opportunity to tell us about your relevant skills, experience and qualifications that relate to the job description and person specification in addition to details of your references covering the last 5 years.

The main responsibility of the role will be:

• To work collegially as part of a team to support in all areas of HR in a consistent yet flexible manner across an allocated remit.
• The HR Advisor will ensure compliance, and quality in all tasks.
• Maintaining a clear understanding of the Trust vision and goals and subsequent Academy objectives and strategies to achieve the desired outcomes.
• An expert administrator, with the ability to implement strategy in a fast-paced environment.
• Competent management of employee relation cases.
• Capable of developing colleagues to fulfil their potential.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Fully qualified to CIPD level 5 or working toward full qualification with relevant experience.
• Good numeracy and literacy skills.
• At least three years' experience of working in a generalist HR environment.
• Experience of casework including capability, disciplinary and grievance.
• Experience of supporting managers across a variety of departments at different levels in all aspects of HR.
• Experience of change management.

Inspiration Trust has twice been ranked as the country’s top family of comprehensive schools for pupil progress, and strongly believes in the importance of giving the widest educational opportunities to all young people, regardless of their background. The Trust provides strong networks with opportunities to work with a diverse range of schools and partners. The Trust is committed to offering excellent professional and learning opportunities to all our staff, with a busy programme of continuing professional development courses delivered by some of the country’s best educational thinkers and practitioners.

Inspiration Trust feels it is important to support every school by centralising certain support services. In turn this reduces workload on senior leaders, helping to establish further value for money on a variety of integrated services. This also ensures the Trust’s Academies have a local support structure and share best practice. As a Trust we will continue to review the services we offer and are committed to making them responsive to individual Academy’s needs.

The Trust’s dedicated Central Services Team is based at the Hewett Academy in Norwich. This team provides a strong range of school support services including:

• Finance
• Governance
• Human Resources and Payroll
• Operations, including Estate management, Health and Safety, ICT and Marketing

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When you join Inspiration Trust's thriving network of talented teachers, leaders and support staff, you join an organisation that supports you to be the best you can be. The Trust offers a varied professional development programme for employees.

We are committed to offering excellent professional opportunities for our staff, through careful support and personalised CPD. We offer a structured and specific induction programme.

The Trust also offers:

• Generous holiday entitlement
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme which provides a fully confidential service which includes 24/7 free telephone support and access to well-being information, advice and guidance
• Discounted travel passes via the First Bus Commuter Travel Club
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Retail Benefits offering discounts with many shops and suppliers
• Corporate membership of the Norwich Theatre Royal
• Salary sacrifice schemes, including car leasing (subject to T&C), healthcare plans, including Dental insurance and Gym membership
• SpecSavers VDU Eyecare and Boots Flu vouchers
• Free Parking (on most sites)

*Some benefits are only available following successfully passing probation

If you would like to know more about this exciting opportunity, then please contact our Recruitment Team on [email protected]

To apply for this role please click the Apply button to complete the online application form.

Closing date for applications: 12pm on Friday 25th October 2024

Interview date: Wednesday 6th November 2024

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

All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks. We are an equal opportunities employer.