HR Officer (Maternity Cover) in City of Westminster

Location: Ark King Solomon Academy

Start date: May 2026

Contract: Full-time maternity cover, 36 hours per week, 42 weeks per year. Working hours to be agreed with the line manager.

Salary: £34,190 - £43,052 (Pro rata salary £31,671 - £39,880)

We are seeking an experienced HR professional to join our team in an exceptional school in Central London on a maternity cover basis. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver a high-quality, professional HR service in a varied and fast-paced environment. As an integral member of the operations team, you will lead on the day-to-day HR service provision across the academy.

• Lead on the day-to-day HR service provision, working collaboratively with the academy’s People Business Partner and Centralised People support service
• Maintain an accurate and up-to-date Single Central Register (SCR) in accordance with the Keeping Children Safe in Education Regulations and Ofsted
• Prepare accurate recruitment documentation to ensure the interview process runs smoothly and panel members are well equipped
• Provide advice and guidance on the implementation of Ark HR policies and procedures, liaising with the central HR team as required
• Ensure compliance with current employment law, HR best practice and Ark HR policies and procedures

• Experience of working in HR and using an HR Database
• Experience of working in a similar role in a school environment (Highly Desirable)
• Understanding of relevant legislation, policies and procedures, and the ability to apply this understanding to real situations
• Strong administrative and organisational skills

• Right to work in the UK
• GCSE at grade C or above in English and Maths
• HR qualification (ideally CIPD Level 5 or above) or other relevant HR qualification, or working towards it

To discuss the role, please feel free to email the Principal’s PA, Abigail Saleh, at a.saleh@kingsolomonacademy.org or phone on 0207 563 6901.

We believe in aiming high, working together, being kind and leading the way. Through weekly individual coaching, year group intellectual preparation time and whole school PD, we invest in your growth and development as a teacher to ensure you can excel in creating the best possible climate for learning for our pupils to thrive in.

Through our approach to professional development we can promise a successful candidate a positive and rewarding journey of growth. Through shared weekly and long-term planning, a large number of training days and access to the resources and opportunities in the Ark network, we are able to support our teachers to thrive.

Find out more about the benefits of working for Ark at arkonline.org/careers/why-work-with-us/.

We are a genuine all-through school, with our pupils staying with us from nursery to sixth form across two sites, ten minutes’ walk apart. Because of this, we have a unique opportunity to have a long term and dramatic impact on our pupils’ lives. This all starts in our primary school, where our pupils develop, and grow a love of learning.

We have a strong track-record as a school in making a significant impact on our pupils’ lives. We adopt a mastery approach in primary, meaning that our pupils have more time and explicit teaching of the skills and concepts that underpin long term success in academics, enriched by a varied and cultural capital enhancing curriculum which inspires and engages our pupils. Our specialist teaching model allows pupils to benefit from expert teaching in PE, music, art, humanities and science and means all staff have time to plan each subject properly.

In September 2019 we merged with Ark Paddington Green Academy and combined to form one all-through King Solomon Academy with Nursery-Year 4 on our Younger Years Site (Crompton Street) and Year 5 - Year 13 on the Older Years Site (Penfold Street). In May 2021, we opened a purpose-built nursery for 2-4 year olds. Our Younger Years Site has generous outdoor space, including a beautiful global food garden and a woodland garden where we run Forest School in EYFS and KS1. UKS2 pupils benefit from all the resources of sharing a site with secondary: a huge MUGA, basketball courts, science labs, specialist music equipment and so on.

Visit kingsolomonacademy.org/jobs to learn more about us.

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.

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.

Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage to submit your application at your earliest convenience.