People Partner

Location: Greater London

### Job Introduction
** Required for:
** as soon as possible
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* Location:

** Deans Yard, Westminster School
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* Contract:

** full-time, permanent
** Hours of work:
** 35 hours per week, 52 weeks per week. Preferred hours are 9am - 5pm, however there may be flexibility to start earlier or later and hours may need to occasionally be adjusted to support business needs.
** Salary:** £56,000 per annum
** Benefits of working at Westminster include:
*** Generous School pension scheme
* Free access to the School's leisure facilities, including a fitness gym (restricted hours)
* Cycle to Work Scheme and season ticket loans following completion of our standard probation period
* Private medical insurance (opt in)
* Discretionary Christmas shutdown period
* Professional development opportunities

Free school meals are also available when on-site during working hours for the role.
** The Final date to receive applications is midday on Friday 9th October 2026. Longlist interviews will take place w/c 19th October, with final interviews taking place in-person on Monday 2nd November 2026.
** Westminster School is seeking an experienced People Partner to work with the wider People Partnering team in delivering a proactive, high-quality people service across the school. Working closely with leaders and managers, the postholder provides pro-active (and where necessary reactive) guidance and support on all areas of people management including employee relations, performance management, recruitment, wellbeing and employee engagement.

The role acts as a trusted partner to managers across academic and operational departments, helping them manage people matters effectively while ensuring compliance with employment legislation, safeguarding requirements and school policies. The postholder will contribute to the delivery of the school's people priorities and support a positive, inclusive and high-performing workplace culture.

Working closely, collegiately and flexibly with other members of the People and Payroll team to deliver an excellent service across the School, the role will also work closely with the Under Master and Senior Management Committee of the Great School as their designated People Partner.

The People & Payroll function operates and works across both The Great School and the Under School, therefore unless explicitly mentioned any reference to the  School  means both Great and Under Schools.
** Key Responsibilities
*** People management
** Build effective working relationships with leaders and managers across the school.
* Deliver respected and valued advice and support to allocated School and departments to deliver improved performance and increase efficiency on people management issues.
* Use knowledge of employment law and good practice to identify and provide innovative solutions to people problems, supporting managers in applying HR policies and procedures consistently and fairly.
* Work with managers in developing solutions to difficult problems and analysing information quickly to ensure effective decision making.
* Partner managers and senior managers on individual issues such as performance management, capability, disciplinary, grievance and sickness cases, up to and including dismissal, always working within accepted good practice and School procedures, escalating more complex or high-risk matters to the Head of People Partnering and Operations where appropriate.
* Involvement and embedding of staff engagement activities (e.g. EDI and Wellbeing) in respect of all staff. The role will work closely with the Senior People Partner in the development, updating, creation and embedding of people focused policies and procedures, whilst also providing guidance and supervision to the Training, Development and Staff Engagement Officer as required.
* Coach and train management and staff in all elements of human resources policy and procedure.
* Employee Relations
** Manage a range of employee relations cases including absence management, disciplinary, grievance, capability and flexible working matters, escalating to the Head of People Partnering and Operations where necessary.
* Support investigations and formal meetings, preparing documentation and providing advice throughout the process.
* Promote early intervention and informal resolution of workplace issues where appropriate.
* Ensure employee relations matters are handled in line with employment legislation and school policies.

Recruitment and onboarding
* Work with the Recruitment and Onboarding Officer to…