HR Manager

Crone Corkill is currently recruiting for this new opportunity. Please read through and apply if it is applicable!

HR Manager
Lovely Prep School in North London
£35-50,000 depending on experience

This wonderful role will be working a sole HR Manager in a prep school with 120 staff (including teachers). This is an incredibly busy and all-involved role, with a huge amount of variety. For the role it is ESSENTIAL that you have worked in an HR capacity within a school previously.

The daily duties would involve:

*Day-to-day management of the HR function
*Full responsibility for recruitment process for teaching, support and administrative staff, including advertising, organising shortlisting and interviews, references and appropriate pre-employment checks, editing contracts, carrying out Disclosures and Barring Service (criminal records) checks, international police checks, Prohibition from Teaching checks, qualification verification, and associated tasks. Safer Recruitment training provided.
*Insuring school is compliant with employment law and up to date with Inspectorate requirements, including responsibility for the Single Central Register of Appointments.
*Management of Admin team; coordinating annual leave, keeping record of planned absences and illnesses, allocation of ad hoc jobs and special events.
*Responsibility for maintaining agency supply and visitor logs and providing safeguarding and fire safety inductions where required.
*Act as primary caseworker for the visa sponsorship process, including Tier 2 and the new Points-based Immigration Scheme for EU citizens.
*Coordination of absence management with deputy heads for the teaching and support staff and maintaining absence records.
*Coordination of employee occupational health requirements; coordinating with the company doctor, organising flu vaccines and Covid testing.
*Management of Return-To-Work assessments and pregnancy risk assessments, communication with appropriate medical contacts during employee extended sickness absence.
*Supporting the Head with disciplinary and grievance procedures, with responsibility for investigation process and managing the outcomes.
*Managing the new employee Induction process and coordinating the new staff inset days and training.
*Maintaining staff records, including the accurate filing of documents, including highly sensitive and confidential information.
*Drafting references and standard staff letters (visa/tenancy) as required, including confidential reports on teacher performance.
*Assisting with the employment documentation process for Private Office and Governance posts, including coordination of DBS certification.
*Maintaining and updating the Contractors' registers, as required, including catering, and cleaning staff documentation.
*Coordination of Admin meetings, including agendas and taking minutes.
*Coordination of dispersal, retrieval and filing of extraneous staff documentation, including; Gift Declarations, KCSIE, and other self-declaration paperwork.

As mentioned, it is ESSENTIAL that you have worked in an HR capacity within a school previously. If you have done so, I would love to hear from you!