HR Officer
Ark Acton Academy
Ealing
- £32,673 - £38,340.56 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Ark Support Scale 8: Pay Points 19-29, Actual Salary £32,673-£38,340.56
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2024
- Apply by:
- 1 April 2024
Job overview
Location: Acton, London — Excellent transport links, Acton Town station only 5 minutes’ walk and ample car parking onsite.
Reporting to: Operations Manager
Location: Ark Acton Academy
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Term time only plus 4 weeks (36 Hours per week, working hours to be agreed with the line manager)
Salary: Ark Support Scale 8: Pay Points 19-29, Actual Salary £32,673-£38,340.56 -Full time equivalent £34,452 - £40,427
Closing date: 14th April 2024
Interviews: On a Rolling Basis – (We reserve the right to close the advert early so early application is advised)
About the role:
Come and work with great colleagues doing exciting things in West London’s best kept secret. Ark Acton Academy’s ethos is clear, and we are unwavering in our dedication to it, we simply believe that every child, regardless of background or prior achievement, can be successful if given great teaching and pastoral support.
We are looking for a confident, friendly and enthusiastic HR professional with the ability to form excellent working relationships with a range of stakeholders. You will be an effective HR generalist responsible for the delivery of all aspects of Human resources, including resourcing, HR systems, payroll, HR administration, and HR policy guidance. You will be working in a busy environment which requires the ability to manage conflicting priorities to meet the needs of academy.
We aim to create an environment where it’s safe to be happy and where everyone strives for success. Our mission is to create a school of the highest standard that achieves this through recruiting and training excellent teachers and support staff, and by developing a pastoral system that ensures no child is left behind. You will be joining a dedicated team of staff lead by a principal who has a proven success record.
In return you will be joining a warm and friendly team with excellent staff well-being, as part of Ark we are committed to excellent CPD encouraging staff development.
The ideal candidate will:
- Educated to degree level (desirable)
- GCSE Maths and English grade C or above (or equiv)
- HR (CIPD5) qualification or working towards this level or other HR qualification.
- Experience of working in HR and using a HR database
- Experience of working in a similar role in a school environment (Desirable)
- Good IT skills, highly competent using Microsoft Office
- Strong administrative and organisational skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Understanding of relevant legislation, policies and procedures, and the ability to apply this understanding to real situations.
- Ability to provide initial advice or guidance to managers.
- Be committed to the Ethos of the school.
Benefits of being part of the Ark network include:
- Twice as many training days as standard and network-wide events with Ark colleagues, held by the best minds in education.
- Excellent staff benefits, including, Free staff breakfast, discounted MOT, use of the fully equipped Gym, free weekly Yoga sessions on site.
- Available car parking spaces and excellent transport links.
- 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
For a full job description please see the supporting documents.
For Further information on the school including our policies please visit the school site at https://arkacton.org
The school is highly committed to safeguarding, with policies and procedure to support this.
View the school policies including the schools safeguarding policy here
View more information on the benefits of working for Ark here.
As part of the shortlisting process, we may conduct an online search as part of due diligence checks in the recruitment process.
To apply please visit our vacancies page at https://arkacton.org/vacancies. Please submit your application by 14th April. At any time you can pause, save and log back into your application.
For further information, a confidential discussion or any technical queries please contact Julia Morson, EAP, jmorson@arkacton.org
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
Attached documents
About Ark Acton Academy
At Ark Acton Academy we believe that every child, regardless of background or prior achievement, can be successful if given great teaching and pastoral support. Our mission is to create a school of the highest standard that achieves this through recruiting and training excellent teachers and support staff, and by developing a pastoral system that ensures no child is left behind.
Our mastery curriculum is at the heart of school life and ensures that all students get the opportunity to study academic disciplines and to wrestle with ways of thinking that take them beyond everyday understandings. Alongside this we invest heavily in staff training and development to ensure that every student is taught by a subject expert who is passionate about their subject and its importance to understanding the world around us.
Whilst we want all our students to leave Ark Acton Academy with the currency they need to access the next stage of their education and to have an unrelenting focus on hard work and discipline, we know that getting great exam results is only half of a good education: we are determined to deliver as many opportunities as we can for every child to flourish outside the classroom. We want our students to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a child from a private school and compete for the same university place or job.
As part of Ark Schools, we have access to world class staff training and development, as well as expertise from across the network. Being part of a family of schools ensures that we can keep learning and evaluating our impact to ensure that every child who comes to Ark Acton leaves as a well-rounded and polite individual with the drive and resources to lead a happy and successful life.
Why work at Ark Acton Academy
At Ark Acton we have stripped away anything we feel gets in the way of being a great teacher so that we can focus on the main thing. This includes:
- Feedback policies that sit at department level and do not require slavish marking of books
- No graded lesson observations or spurious judgements
- No report writing
- No parent’s evenings
- Only 2 data points a year
- No ½ termly data metrics to track progress
- Protected Department meeting time built into the timetable and staff loadings
- Protected curriculum planning time built into the timetable and staff loadings
- A constant SLT presence to maintain our calm, scholarly atmosphere
- A binary behaviour system that enables disruption-free teaching.
Our curriculum
Our purpose as a school is to ensure our young people can go out into the world and live a life of choice and opportunity. We want them to leave Ark Acton having been inducted into systems of worthwhile knowledge that enable them to participate in and shape the national discourse.
In order to achieve this vision for our young people, we place the curriculum at the heart of school life. It drives all other decisions that we make and is the best means we have of demonstrating as a school what we believe in and what we stand for. In essence our curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils at Acton acquire disciplinary knowledge that they cannot learn at home and that this specified curriculum knowledge is based on the most coherent and tested ways of conceptualising the world that we have.
Alongside our taught academic curriculum we run our co-curricular programme. This programme provides experiences and opportunities for all students to participate in individual and group activities that help them develop essential life skills. Debating and oracy sits at the heart of this model as we aim to enable all our students to develop confidence, articulacy and team-working skills.
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