Human Resource Officer

**Are you passionate about people?**:

- **Do you possess a flair for developing business support?**

We are recruiting to the newly established post of **Human Resource Officer** to enhance our central HR services.

Reporting to our Operations Workstream Leader, you will be responsible for drafting and coordinating job descriptions and recruitment advertisements, organising interviews, administering pre-employment checks and data input to our staff management information system.

We will look to you for HR file management and reporting to ensure we are compliant across the Trust.

You will need tact and confidentiality as our first line response to HR enquiries from colleagues, and when administering meetings such as absence management across the Trust.

You may be required to travel to schools for meetings and to provide occasional training sessions on our HR software and processes for which mileage will be paid from the work base of Horncastle, and so the ability to drive and access to personal transport is essential.

If you are diligent, efficient, possess excellent IT and communication skills and would like to be part of a strong and progressive Trust with firm family values, we would like to hear from you.

This is a permanent full time post of 37 hours per week for 52 weeks per year. The salary upon appointment is Grade 6 Scale Point 15 £25,878 and has the potential to rise to Point 18 £28,371 through our performance management appraisal process. To view our range of staff benefits, take a look at our website.

**About us**
Horncastle Education Trust comprises five local schools; Banovallum School, Frithville Primary School, Huttoft Primary & Nursery School, New York Primary School and Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School. The Trust was formed from a genuine desire to work more closely together following the success of existing partnership work between the schools. Having both secondary and primary schools that are geographically close is something we take a pride in as a Trust.

We believe that every student whatever their background has the right to flourish, to achieve and to succeed and everything undertaken by Horncastle Education Trust should have this ambition at its heart.

We are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion within our recruitment process.

Horncastle Education Trust
West Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire LN9 5AD

**_Fluency Duty_**:

- In accordance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 (Fluency Duty), the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post._