Human Resources Administrator

What skills and experience we're looking for

Do you want to join a great team who are passionate about people? We have an exciting opportunity for an HR Administrator to join the Trust’s HR Team.

As an HR Administrator, you will play a key role in delivering a range of recruitment and administrative duties across the Trust. These will include working with colleagues to create adverts and job descriptions, tracking and coordinating essential recruitment and employment checks, creating and maintaining personnel files and ensuring a compliant central record is kept.

You will be confident and professional to work autonomously but also flexible to work closely with the whole HR Department and colleagues across the Trust to deliver a positive, proactive and value-adding HR Service.

Your recent HR experience and knowledge of recruitment legislation and best practice will be supported by a Level 3 Business Administration qualification. Level 3 CIPD qualification is essential or willingness to undertake this qualification.

Applicants should also have sound knowledge of and experience of Microsoft applications, including Word, MS Forms, Outlook and Excel. A strong customer focus and excellent communication skills are essential for this role.

Further information can be found in the attached job description and person specification.

The Priory Federation of Academies Trust is an established and supportive MAT. Our scale allows both flexibility and creativity in terms of career development, with permanent and secondment opportunities across our academies allowing exciting career pathways. We are determined in our mission to improve the life chances of our students and we are equally committed to the wellbeing and development of our staff.

All our support staff benefit from annual appraisals, access to CPD opportunities, our Trust Employee Benefits Programme and excellent support from our HR team.

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.