What skills and experience we're looking for
Join Our Dynamic Team as a HR Officer!
Are you a proactive and highly efficient HR professional passionate about driving organisational excellence?
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to join us working within a growing, dynamic and busy Central HR Team based in Rotherham. As an HR Officer, you will take a lead and ownership of Absence Management and/or Policy Development, tailoring your expertise to meet the needs of our schools across the Trust.
Responsibilities Include
• Providing accurate and clear HR advice on a range of employment issues including discipline, grievance, capability, attendance, performance management and national and local conditions of service in line with employment and case law.
• Lead on absence management, working closely with Headteachers to monitor attendance at all academies and implement formal attendance management procedures, including presenting at hearings
• Creating, implementing, and maintaining HR policies ensuring alignment with legal requirements and best practices
• Provide support to the HR Manager/ Senior Manager on all HR matters across Trust.
• Providing timely and accurate reports including staff attendance data
Qualifications
• Relevant HR qualification or equivalent experience
Sound like you? We’d love to hear from you!
As this role will focus primarily on Absence Management and/or Policy Development, we kindly request that you outline your relevant experience in these areas within your supporting statement, whether you have expertise in one or both fields. Please also include your preferred hours as the panel will consider full time, part time and term time applications.
What the school offers its staff
We are Wickersley Partnership Trust (WPT) - a Multi-Academy Trust with eight Primary Schools, five Secondary Schools, one Sixth Form and one Central Team under our umbrella.We’re dotted across Rotherham, South Yorkshire with one school based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.At WPT, students are at the heart of everything we do, and we aim to send all children into an ever-changing world, able and qualified to play their full part in it. To give them the best educational experience possible, we recognise the importance of investing in and supporting our colleagues.
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.