HR Advisor (Central Team)

Start date to be agreed with the successful candidate.

Based across The GORSE Academies Trust

Are you an experienced HR professional looking for a role where you can make a real difference?

The Gorse Academies Trust (“GORSE”) are seeking an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and people-focused HR Advisor to join our highly regarded Central HR Team. This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a collaborative and supportive HR function, supporting colleagues across our establishments and ensuring that our people remain at the heart of everything we do.

As a trusted HR professional, you will provide expert advice and guidance to managers, support employee relations casework, oversee key recruitment activities and help drive initiatives that enhance employee engagement, wellbeing and organisational development. Whilst supporting colleagues across the Trust, the successful candidate will have a particular focus on providing HR support to the Trust’s catering function, including recruitment, probation, sickness absence and appraisal processes. No two days are the same, making this an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, collaboration and making a positive impact

About the Role

Working closely with the HR Director, Assistant Director of HR, HR Business Partners and school leaders, you will:

• Provide professional HR advice and guidance across a wide range of employee matters.
• Support recruitment and onboarding activities across the trust.
• Assist with employee relations cases, including attendance, disciplinary, grievance and performance management processes.
• Produce and analyse HR data to support informed decision-making.
• Support learning, development and organisational change initiatives.
• Promote employee wellbeing, engagement and positive workplace culture.
• Help ensure HR compliance, consistency and best practice across the trust.
• Holds, or is working towards, a Level 5 HR qualification, ideally CIPD.
• Has significant experience in an HR advisory, coordinator or similar HR role.
• Possesses strong knowledge of employment legislation, HR best practice and people management processes.
• Is highly organised and able to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Has excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Is confident working with HR systems, data and reporting tools, including Excel.
• Can handle sensitive information with discretion, professionalism and integrity.
• Shares our commitment to supporting colleagues and maintaining high professional standards.

What we offer you:

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

• Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• £2k Cycle to work scheme.

About us:

Led by Sir John Townsley, GORSE has a well‑known reputation for changing the deal for children and young adults who come from some of the most impoverished parts of the country. Our central mission is to ensure that we play a significant role in removing the stubborn link between poverty and academic underperformance. Consequently, our students and our professionals are in the vanguard of the national drive which seeks to prove that where teaching is excellent, leadership inspiring and behaviour standards exemplary all children excel regardless of background.

Our 15 academies, our central team, our Teaching School Hub and GORSE SCITT work in a tightknit manner which sees our students prospering as a result of great partnership. Our professionals recognise the enormous advantage that comes from belonging to a network of excellence and we as a trust recognise that there is much to be gained when great organisations work with integrity, moral purpose and determination.

If you would like to know more about our Trust, please visit our website atwww.tgat.org.uk .

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and we welcome applications from people with disabilities as defined by the Equality Act. If you would benefit from any adjustments during the application or interview process, please inform us so we can support you appropriately.

We arecommitted to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check.

We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.

Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK – either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.

Please note that, as a sponsor licence holder, we only provide sponsorship for teacher vacancies.

Hours: 37 Hours per week, term time only (+15 days minimum), or all year round

Interview Date: To be confirmed