HR Manager - Full-time

Located in the beautiful cathedral city of Canterbury, our school will provide you with a rewarding environment within a vibrant, caring, and supportive community.
As a Human Resources Manager, you will:
+ Be responsible for all aspects of the human resources management within the School including liaison with the school's external payroll, personnel consultancy provider and Occupational Health provider.
+ Be the initial point of contact for staff and line managers regarding HR issues providing information regarding pay, conditions, and all HR policies.
+ Develop and support a positive employee relations climate through productive and professional working relationships with the relevant professional associations and support staff unions, liaising and advising on HR related issues including capabilities, disciplinaries and grievances, as necessary.
Who we are looking for:
+ An individual with significant experience in a fast paced and challenging HR role
+ A passionate individual who is eager for challenge and the opportunity to make a difference.
+ An individual who will keep to clear timeframes and policy deadlines and manage risk by applying knowledge of best HR practice, latest case law and legislations.
The Archbishop's School is a mixed ability school who believe that every child has the potential be a successful learner, whatever their background, ability, interests, or talents. We are committed to demonstrating this belief to our students, ensuring their success.

Are you an experienced, enthusiastic and innovative leader with a sound understanding of HR within a school setting?
Can you operate strategically, take an active approach to problem solving and lead a team to enhance performance?
Does this sound like the perfect career opportunity you have been searching for? If so, we would love to hear from you.
We are looking to appoint an experienced, proactive, and highly motivated HR Manager. The successful candidate will provide a professional, comprehensive, and high-quality HR service to managers and staff, to ensure the smooth running of the services in line with School policies, procedures and legal requirements.
Bringing with you experience of working in a busy and varied employee relations environment, you must be CIPD qualified (or equivalent experience), a team player, able to cope with change and remain focused on achieving results, often alongside conflicting priorities and high levels of demands, an excellent communicator, have a hands on approach and be able develop strong relationships with managers to support and advise them on sickness absence management and complex & sensitive employee relations matters including advising on investigation processes.

The Archbishops School is a mixed ability school for students aged 11-19. We are a small, but successful and very popular Church of England Foundation School in the beautiful cathedral city of Canterbury. The Archbishop's School is rated GOOD by Ofsted. To read our most recent Ofsted report dated November 2023, please follow this link:https://www.archbishops-school.co.uk/501/ofsted-report
The school community is smaller than most secondary schools enabling us to provide a personalised approach to education. All students are well known, well cared for and receive the very best support and encouragement in their learning which engenders excellent progress in their academic, personal, social and spiritual development.
Our school ethos is "Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve". This perfectly describes our mission: to provide the very best education for our students, whilst preparing them for school life in the twenty-first century with all the challenges this presents. They are able to make a positive contribution to society and share the love of God. As an innovative and forward-thinking school, we celebrate all of our students' achievements and are extremely proud of the people they become.
As a school, we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants are expected to share this commitment.
In line with KCSIE 2023 guidance, as part of the shortlisting process, The Archbishop's School reserves the right to conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and any relevant information found concerning a candidates suitability to work with children will be discussed at interview stage.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early and proceed to interview upon receipt of a number of suitably qualified applications. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. In accordance with our safeguarding practices, we are unable to accept CV's. We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Prevent Duty.
The Archbishop's School embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity.