HR & Payroll Officer

**Salary**:
Ark Inner London Support Band 8 pay range. Starting salary is £35,742

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
1 September 2025

21 March 2025

**Job overview**:
**Salary**: Ark Support Band 8 £35,742 starting salary (Salary Range £35,742 - 41,717)

**Location**: Wembley, London

**Nearest Tube station**: Wembley Park (Jubilee/Metropolitan)

**Start date**: 1 September 2025

**Deadline**: Friday 21 March 2025

**Ofsted**: Outstanding (2022)

**Opportunity to join an ‘Outstanding’ all-through academy specialising in mathematics and citizenship.**

Ark Academy is an all-through school in Wembley Park, set against the backdrop of the iconic Wembley Stadium, with excellent transport links.

**About the role**:

- Have the right to work in the UK
- Hold CIPD qualification Level 5 or Equivalent
- Have proven experience as an HR & Payroll Officer or similar role
- Proficiency in HR Software and Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to handle sensitive information with confidentiality and professionalism
- Strong knowledge of HR Practices and employment law
- Become part of a team of an ‘Outstanding’ all-through academy
- Access continuous staff development. We have a minimum of 10 staff training days
- As a member of Ark Academy, you will receive extensive professional development geared towards excellence.
- Our successful behaviour policies treat student behaviour not as the responsibility of individual teachers, but of the entire school. This ensures as a teacher at Ark Academy, your time is never wasted dealing with discipline. Our students know what is expected of them, allowing both students and teachers to focus on learning

**Benefits of being part of the Ark network include**:
Join the Ark network and have access to a range of benefits including professional development opportunities, reduced gym membership and large retail discounts

**_ To find out more about Ark Academy and further benefits of working for Ark please click here_**

**How to apply**:
For an informal, confidential discussion, please contact Joanne Nelson, Executive Assistant on 020 8385 4370 to arrange a call back with the principal.

**For any technical issues, please contact our system support team by clicking the chat function on the bottom right of the advert screen.**
- This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for the role._
- 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._
- 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._

**About**Ark Academy**:
**Ark Academy**
- Bridge Road, Wembley
- Middlesex
- HA9 9JP
- United Kingdom

+44 208 385 4370

**About Ark Academy**

Ark Academy is a mixed, non-selective, non-denominational all-through academy for 3 to 18-year-olds in Wembley, London. It opened its primary school in September 2008 and its secondary school in September 2010. Ark Academy is recently rated as one of the top 100 non-selective state schools in England.

The school motto - ‘Civitas' - is at our core and will be seen everywhere around the school. We pride ourselves for being first and foremost citizens and this is what binds us together. The academy believes in high aspirations, high motivation and high achievement for all. We want our students to grow into rounded, confident, ambitious young people who aspire to high achievement and will make a mark on the world, and our staff to be striving to constantly deliver the best possible education and experience to all our pupils. Hence, we hold
- staff development

of the utmost importance. In order to deliver the best training and network events, we offer twice as many training days as standard.

Ark Academy has at its core the pursuit of highest standards possible in education. We believe in high aspirations, high motivation and high achievement for all. Through our extended curriculum and community