Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role ensuring the provision of an efficient and supportive HR and recruitment service at a forward thinking and growing school. In conjunction with the Trust's Central HR Team, the HR and Compliance Manager will be responsible for managing and delivering Sutton High School's HR function, covering recruitment, employee relations, performance management, retention and talent management. This will include advising colleagues on day-to-day employment matters, such as performance management, disciplinary procedures and employee issues, as well as delivering recruitment services for staff, managing the school's payroll and administering the Single Central Register to ensure the school is compliant and maintains its excellent reputation for safeguarding.
The ideal candidate will be CIPD qualified or have equivalent experience, with experience of HR administration processes, policies and procedures and a good understanding of basic employment legislation. Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, including the ability to relate well to people on all levels with sensitivity, tact and diplomacy, are equally important.
The hours are full time, full year but we are able to offer some flexibility for the right candidate.
About Sutton High School
Sutton High School is an academically selective independent day school for girls with an age range of 3 to 18 years. We are situated on a green and leafy site in central Sutton, close to excellent public transport links and major roads.
Why work at Sutton High School?
The school is a member of the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) and the Girls' Schools Association (GSA). Membership of the GDST, the largest group of independent girls' schools in the UK, gives us unrivalled opportunities for training and sharing of good practice.
Employee benefits include:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
Sutton High School GDST
55 Cheam Road
Sutton
Surrey
SM1 2AX
http://www.suttonhigh.gdst.net