Role details

Support Staff Pay Scale – Grade 8 (FTE £34,436-£39,143 p.a) – £31,098 – £35,350 p.a
Working weeks: Term-time plus two weeks
Working hours: 8:15am – 4:15pm Monday to Thursday, 8:30am – 4pm Friday

Role Overview:

The HR Advisor provides experienced generalist HR support across the full employee lifecycle. The Advisor plays a key role in delivering proactive support within several core HR functions, including safer recruitment, employee relations casework, payroll-related administration, policy reviews, HR data reporting, and absence and process management.

The postholder acts as a key point of advice for managers and contributes to HR strategy, wellbeing, and culture initiatives. This position requires someone with strong interpersonal skills who can work collaboratively with staff at all levels while ensuring compliance with employment legislation.

Skills and Qualifications:

– Minimum of 3 years’ experience working as an HR professional.
– In-depth knowledge of UK employment and data protection laws and a proactive approach to keeping up to date with best practices.
– Proven ability in advising Managers in HR Processes in line with internal policies and relevant law and legislation such as recruitment, attendance, performance management, disciplinary etc- Experience of using HR information system and analysis of statistical data is desirable.
– Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
– Ability to handle sensitive information confidentially
– Highly developed IT skills including MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Forms)
– CIPD Level 5 qualification (or equivalent professional qualification or demonstrable HR knowledge) or working towards CIPD qualification.-Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development is desirable.

Values and Attitudes:

-Professional, discreet and able to handle sensitive information with integrity.

-A proactive hand-on approach with the ability to build trusted relationships at all levels.

-Ability to work on own initiative.

-Ability to work confidently with and challenge, Line Managers and SLT in finding solutions to problems, often thinking differently.

-Patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situation.
– A proactive approach with strong problem-solving abilities.
– Empathy when dealing with staff concerns alongside firm decision-making capabilities

If you are passionate about supporting educational professionals through effective human resource management and meet the above criteria, we would welcome your application. Join us at Tytherington School where your expertise will help foster a thriving school community.