People Services Summer Intern Rochester, South East England, England
Job description
The People Services Team (HR) at Leigh Academies Trust has a fantastic opportunity to appoint a People Services Summer Intern to join and support their team on a paid on claim basis. This is a new role within our People Services Team, and it’s a chance to join an established and experienced HR function - you'll be learning from the very best!
The range of tasks our People Services Intern will be doing on a day-to-day basis will be varied:
You will be the main point of contact for new employees to the Trust for the area that you cover.
You will support in generating the necessary onboarding documents, contracts of employment, applying for references, undertaking DBS checks, safeguarding checks and adding all of the new starters details onto our HR/Payroll systems.
Keep all shared spreadsheets up to date at all times.
For overseas candidates you will assist with applying for Qualified Teacher Status, Visas and undertake any overseas police checks.
You will ensure that all departments are notified of the new starter and that preparations are made for their arrival.
Liaise with the academies when needed.
Being part of Leigh Academies Trust: As of 1st September 2022, our Trust comprises 30 geographically organised academies (14 secondaries, 14 primaries and 2 special) educating 20,000 students, and employing 3,000 talented staff. The Trust is establishing four ‘clusters’ of academies: North Kent; Central Kent; South East London; Medway. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training organisations, a large teaching school hub and is an accredited apprenticeship provider. Our future plans are found in our Vision 2030 document available on our website.
As part of Leigh Academies Trust, you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.
Click here to view the benefits available to all LAT employees from day one.
Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.
