HR Administrator or HR Manager (MFS)
Mayfield School
Birmingham
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 7 October 2024
Job overview
Hours of Work: 36.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, All Year Round (with the option to bank some hours).
Contract type: Permanent
Salary including allowances: Grade 3 £25,119 - £31,364 or Grade 4 - £32,076 - £39,186 (FTE)
Start date of role: January 2025 or sooner
Closing date of role: Monday 7 October at 9.00am
Interview date of role: Tuesday 15 October 2024
Enhanced DBS Check Required: Yes
We have an exciting opportunity to join our growing team of professional and dedicated staff either as an aspiring HR Manager at Grade 3 or as an experienced HR Manager at Grade 4.
If you are at the start of your HR Journey and wish to further develop your skills and experience as a HR Administrator, this is an excellent opportunity for you to join a forward thinking collaborative Trust. We will support you to complete a CIPD qualification to aid your progression to the HR Manager role.
Mayfield School is a special school for 310 pupils aged between 2 and 19 with a wide range of special educational needs and disabilities including autism. Mayfield is a Unicef Rights Respecting School on a journey to achieve gold status.
The school is split across two sites - Wheeler Street in Lozells (co-located with Holte School and Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery) and Heathfield Road in Handsworth. Successful applicants can be asked to work at either site depending on the needs of the school.
For the Grade 3 role you will have experience of and be able to:
- Provide an efficient and professional HR or administrative support service in a school or similar environment
- Maintain confidentiality
- Use Microsoft office and other software competently
- Demonstrate efficiency and good organisational skills
- Demonstrate good communication skills and good interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate personal resilience and a commitment to your own professional development and to the stakeholders with whom you will work.
- Take minutes at meetings and handle sensitive information confidentially
For the Grade 4 role you will have experience of:
- Providing an efficient and professional HR Support Service in a school or similar environment
- Administering the recruitment process
- Monitoring and updating the single central record to ensure safeguarding compliance
- Monitoring staff absence
- Assisting with disciplinary and grievance procedures
The ideal candidate will be a strong team player, have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate confidentiality in a prior role. You will have a strong desire to develop your HR Career.
A recent welbee staff survey showed Mayfield as being in the top 20% of schools showing that risks of work-related stress and staff wellbeing are effectively managed and controlled. Our teaching assistants tell us that they value the in-house training offered by the school and welcome the professional development opportunities available to them.
We are proud to be part of Education Impact Academy Trust where "better never ends".
Employee Benefits:
All support staff are enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme (West Midlands Pension Fund) which provides a secure pension and immediate life cover. We offer an Employee Assistance Programme called BHSF which provides 24/7 access to a GP from anywhere in the world; a telephone helpline, face to face e-consultation service, private prescription service; Expert and practical legal advice; 24/7; Confidential helpline for support with emotional matters; Money management support.
The trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS, Childcare Disqualification (where applicable), qualifications, medical fitness, identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search (and a prohibition check for teachers) will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
To read a copy of our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy please click on the link below:
Policies (educationimpact.org.uk)
To read our policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders please click on the link below:
Policies (educationimpact.org.uk)
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement of the role.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020 Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide:
DBS filtering guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
How to apply:
Please read the guidance notes below before completing your application.
Guidance-Notes-on-completing-your-application
Please apply online: https://educationimpact.org.uk/jobs (or scroll to the bottom of this page)
Please note that only Trust application forms will be accepted. We will not read accompanying Curriculum Vitae's (CVs) or accept them instead of an application form.
Closing Date: 7 October 2024 at 9.00am
Interview Date: 15 October 2024
Attached documents
About Mayfield School
- Mayfield School
- Wheeler Street, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B19 2EP
- United Kingdom
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