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The Role

Anthem’s mission is to create ambitious and successful schools where every child thrives. Our approach is built on three core values - integrity, collaboration, and excellence. These values reflect the culture we want to achieve throughout our organisation, from the office to every classroom in each of our schools.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an HR administrator to join our National HR team. You will join as our third HR Administrator, working alongside two HR Managers and the Head of HR. We are a supportive and collaborative team who will offer professional mentorship and guidance to further progress your HR career.

Our new team member will bring their own unique perspective to the role, challenge the status quo, ask for help, and support our schools to secure the best possible outcomes for our colleagues, children and young people.

This role is based from home with occasional travel to our schools in the Lincolnshire & Derbyshire area. This role will be key in supporting the following schools: Benjamin Adlard Primary, Lincoln Carlton Academy, Mount Street Academy, Boston West Academy, Grampian Primary Academy and The Deepings School.

The Responsibilities

As HR administrator you will provide 1st line support throughout the employee lifecycle. Your key responsibilities will include:

Recruitment

• Support with the delivery of our new recruitment strategy
• Post job vacancies on our careers page, external job boards and social media
• Carry out initial application reviews and phone calls with potential candidates
• Process candidates through the recruitment system and schedule interviews
• Request and verify references

Onboarding and Offboarding

• Support with preparation of documents required for onboarding such as vetting, offer letters, contracts and payroll administration
• Verify right to work and all other required documentation
• Arrange new starter welcome kit and request equipment
• Coordinate induction plan with line manager
• Support with submission of employee references and offboarding processes

Employee Management

• Responsible for with organising HR events
• Maintain accurate and complete employee records in accordance with the Single Central Record (SCR)
• Manage employee company and statutory entitlements
• Support and manage the eligibility and administration of employee benefits
• Supports with all employee contractual adjustments and changes, ensuring compliance with UK employment Law, ACAS and KCSIE
• Support our school leaders with HR processes and policies, ensuring best practice and consistency across the trust
• Support with HR audits and the transition to paperless

Other

• Offer your ideas on the administration processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness of the team and upon approval implement changes
• Support in the roll out of new HR systems

§ About You

Attributes

• Will have integrity and sound judgement, demonstrating high levels of confidentiality
• Excellent organisation skills and prioritisation
• Team Player
• A keen learner
• Good attention to detail and use of initiative
• Ability to build positive working relationships, both face to face and remote
• A good sense of humour!

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience in administration is essential, no matter the industry
• Strong written and verbal communication is required
• A full UK Driving license is desirable

About Us

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.

Anthem will undertake a basic online check for all shortlisted candidates.