Overview
What skills and experience we're looking for
We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented HR Advisor to join our team and deliver a high-quality, people-focused HR service. You’ll play a key role in supporting managers and employees, providing clear advice, maintaining accurate records, and ensuring smooth HR processes. This is a great opportunity for an organised and collaborative HR professional who enjoys variety, takes initiative, and wants to make a real impact within a supportive and dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide first-line HR support to schools and the central team across the Trust, offering generalist advice and guidance under the direction of HR Business Partners.
* Support employee relations processes, including drafting formal documentation, maintaining accurate meeting notes, and ensuring timely case management in line with HR policies.
* Administer HR systems and processes, ensuring accurate data entry on iTrent, maintaining personnel records, and supporting payroll, absence, and pay change procedures.
* Coordinate recruitment and onboarding checks, ensuring compliance with safer recruitment policies and advising on pre-employment requirements such as DBS, references, and right-to-work.
* Promote HR service excellence, upholding confidentiality, safeguarding, equality, and wellbeing standards while maintaining up-to-date knowledge of employment terms and HR best practice.
Key Requirements
* Successful experience of working within Human Resources or anoffice environment providing customer services.
* Awareness of issues relating to people with learning difficulties andwillingness to work alongside students who may communicate through challenging behaviour.
* Experience ofmaintainingboth manual andcomputerisedrecords.
* Topossessor be willing to work towards CIPD level5qualification, or equivalent
* Able tooperateatan advisorylevel, advising and informing colleagueswithinthe central team andschoolon policy, procedure and legislation relating to HR andtackling sensitiveissues
* Willingness to travel to sites across all OHC&AT locations on an ad-hoc basis.
To possess a current driving license and to own a suitable vehicle.
What the school offers its staff
OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:
Rewards & Benefits
* Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
* Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) offering life cover and financial protection for your family.
* Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)
* Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
* Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
* Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Commitment to safeguarding
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.
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