What skills and experience we're looking for
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and proactive HR professional to lead and develop our Trust’s people function. This is a strategic and operational role, working closely with senior leaders to deliver high-quality HR services across all settings.
Key Responsibilities
* As the Trust HR Lead, you will be providing expert, confidential guidance to Trust and School Leaders on all HR matters, while supporting the development of the Trust People Strategy alongside senior executives. You will lead on HR compliance and reporting, maintaining HR systems, records, and documentation to a high professional standard, and deliver HR training while developing internal policies, templates, and procedures.
* You will oversee recruitment, selection, and onboarding across all Trust settings, ensuring processes are consistent, inclusive, and efficient whilst adhering to Safer Recruitment practice.
* You will lead the central HR function, including issuing contracts and maintaining HR systems, while ensuring full compliance with employment legislation.
About You
You will be a highly organised and detail‑focused HR leader with strong knowledge of employment law and HR best practice. You will have excellent communication skills, the ability to manage multiple priorities, and a commitment to delivering high‑quality, people‑focused services.
Why Join Us?
This is an exciting opportunity to shape and influence the people strategy of a growing Trust, making a meaningful impact on staff experience and organisational success.
What the school offers its staff
Education Learning Trust is a Multi‑Academy Trust, educating over 3,500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a valued member of our Trust, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive and rewarding benefits package. This includes a highly competitive salary, a respected and generous pension scheme, and outstanding opportunities for career progression and professional development. We are also committed to supporting your health and wellbeing, offering access to our award‑winning employee assistance programme, as well as a wide range of employee benefits and discounts.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
* exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
* school improvement strategies arising from evidence‑based research and professional enquiry
* opportunities for professional development and leadership
* a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
* innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
Safeguarding and welfare
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices in line with statutory guidance, including Keeping Children Safe in Education and the Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief. We welcome applications from disabled candidates and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Candidates should meet the necessary standard of spoken English as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state‑funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer‑facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
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