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  • About The Role

  • We are seeking a conscientious HR Assistant with excellent attention to detail to join our diverse Operational team.

     You will be an integral member of the school’s on-site HR team, providing HR admin support to a high standard. As the HR Assistant, you will undertake duties across a range of HR activities including recruitment and selection admin, data management and reporting, payroll admin and HR compliance.

     
    Key Responsibilities:
    • To maintain an accurate and up-to-date paper and electronic filing system for personnel records
    • To process staff changes, staff leaving documentation and arrange exit interviews
    • To produce a range of HR letters and correspondence
    • To support the recruitment process across the academy, including advertising, scheduling and booking interviews, liaising with candidates, producing interview packs, meeting and greeting candidates, ensuring refreshments are arranged for interviews
    • To manage the HR Data System to ensure that electronic employee records are accurate and up to date and Assist the HR Officer with maintenance of confidential staff records
     
    Experience:
    • Experience of working in administration
    • Experience of using a database, ideally an HR database (desirable)
    • Experience of working in a similar role in a school environment (desirable)
    • Effective problem solver and flexible team player, with the ability to plan ahead
    • Excellent personal skills with a proven track record of developing strong and productive working relationships
    • Good IT skills, including the ability to confidently use Microsoft Word, Excel and other publishing/editing or design packages as mentioned above
     
    Qualifications:
    • Right to work in the UK
    • Ideally qualified to degree level and/or Maths & English Grade 4 (or C equivalent)
    • HR-related qualification or the interest in working towards one (desirable)
     
    For an informal, conversation about the role please contact HR Officer, Amal Hersi on 0121 773 8156 or via email at: [email protected]
  • Benefits

    • Staff wellbeing is one of our main priorities. We provide breakfast for staff each morning, soup for lunch and lunch for those on duty. We have parking available, a gym on site and a well-equipped staff room including a pool table.
    • Our systems and processes for communication, marking and feedback and assessment are streamlined and the approaches we take are research led and based on the needs of our local context. For instance, at present we do not use traditional book marking across the school.
    • On Fridays, children finish at 1.20pm, giving time and space for professional development amongst staff.
    • Staff voice is important to us; we like to listen to our staff. We are always seeking feedback and input from our staff.

    Find out more about the benefits of working for Ark at arkonline.org/careers/why-work-with-us/ 

  • About Us

  • When you join Ark Boulton Academy you become part of a network of education experts who are all united by the same purpose - a commitment to making a difference where it matters most.

    Each day is unique for our team, as they collectively support the activities within and outside the school. Our consortium of creative and resourceful team members ensure we go above and beyond in order to constantly improve our service to the community we serve. Our strapline ‘growing together, reaching higher 'applies as much to our staff as our students. We recognise that the health and wellbeing of our staff will affect that of our students. For this reason, we have invested in developing our wellbeing room and other initiatives to care for our whole school community.

    Our staff are a valuable and integral part of our community and are given the room to grow and develop in an encouraging, challenging and rewarding environment. They are role-models and ambassadors for Boulton on a professional and public level. They reflect the virtues we promote which include courage, self-discipline, commitment, and honesty.

    By becoming a member of our school family, you will embrace multiple opportunities for personal and professional development, not just within the school, but from the internationally renowned Ark family of schools we are a part of. Through Ark, our staff can share.

    Visit arkboulton.org/jobs to learn more about us.
     

    Why work for our school?

    Hear what our teachers have to say about working at Ark Boulton Academy: https://arkboulton.org/jobs/working-for-us 

    Diversity and inclusion:

    We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone – staff and students – can do their best work and achieve their full potential. We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark’s diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on this link.

    Safeguarding statement:

    Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. 

    Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.

    Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage to submit your application at your earliest convenience. 

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