Hr Officer in London, Greater London

• HR officer
• Full-time – All year round
• Asap Start
• Ealing Secondary School

We are currently working with a secondary school based in the borough of Ealing who are looking for a HR Officer to join their school on a full-time basis asap.

The Role

 You will be responsible for providing support in the various human resources and functions, which include recruitment, staffing, policies and procedures, performance monitoring and payroll processing. This opportunity will suit someone who is passionate about HR and highly organised. Ideally, you will have knowledge of various HR functions. The school want to see a committed and approachable individual.

Key Duties:

• Key link to the principal for staff recruitment, maintenance of Personnel information (Arbor), HR operational procedures, i.e., sickness absence recording and monitoring for whole staff body
• To perform all payroll administration on payroll portal including monthly checking of report and submitting staff additional hours claims to third party provider deadlines.
• To administer the whole recruitment process following Safer Recruiting guidelines including placing advertisements, circulating recruitment packs, organising the interview timetable and compiling interview packs
• Conduct all new starter recruitment checks and compliance ahead of start dates and following up on missing information with individual or third parties
• Issue Offer Letters and Contracts as agreed by Interview Panel Lead and associated employment documentation.
• Organise for new starters to have an induction and where appropriate ensure that probation meeting plans are in place and all administrative documentation are available and subsequently filed appropriately. On-going support should also be given in terms of reminders to line managers.
• Under instruction from the principal, to administer any contract changes i.e. change of role, change of hours/working pattern ensuring that individual’s personnel record reflect this accordingly.
• Under the guidance of the SBM Provide advice and start to end support to line managers, SLT and Principals on all HR issues including but not limited to: TUPE, grievances, disciplinary cases, dismissals, redundancies, maternity/paternity conditions, contractual and job description changes, sickness absence management and capability procedures
• Supporting the development and implementation of HR initiatives and systems
• Providing advice on new policies and procedures
• To make effective use of relevant ICT software to log information ensuring that staff records are kept up to date.

• Providing support to line managers who administer sickness absence meetings and manage accurate absence records and produce reports as required for individual and whole school monitoring.
• To ensure that the Single Central Record (SCR) is maintained by updating when required and to produce regular reports to be reviewed and signed by designated key personnel so as can be available for inspection by SLT, Governors, Ofsted
• Work with the Data Manager to ensure that the annual School Workforce Return (SWR) is accurate for staff and uploaded within the required timeframe.
• To provide minute taking services as appropriate for meetings, disciplinary hearings and maintain confidentially at all times.
• To assist with the management of all visitor’s entry and exit procedures, as required to comply with safe guarding.
• To keep up to date with changing school information and maintaining key information for reference as necessary

Nb – The applicant must have school based HR experience

About The School 

The school in Ealing is a popular secondary school within the area and has extremely strong headteacher who is on a mission for the school to be recognised and one of the best in the country. The school’s ethos is all about ambition, perseverance and unity within the school and the local community.

It is a very popular, multi-cultural school who put equality, safeguarding and inclusion at the heart of its ethos.

They are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check.