Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development Full Time

Villiers High School
Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development
Job Description and Person Specification
Line Manager
Headteacher
Grade
NJC 16-17 (£60,543 – £68,208)
Hours
35 hours
Hours of work
8:00am – 4:00pm

This is a senior role, and the successful candidate should expect to work additional hours as required to fulfil the role, including supporting evening events, and attending evening meetings when required.

The hours of work can be flexible and where appropriate working from home (in moderation) can be considered for the right candidate.

Supervisory responsibility

HR department and Operations manager.

Our Vision
We aim to inculcate a love of learning, a growth mindset, and mutual respect for each other at Villiers. We are dedicated to ensuring that our students leave our school with the qualifications, skills and experience they need to be successful in the future. We believe in equality of opportunity and try to personalise the curriculum and support tailoring to the needs of our students. Celebration of individual achievements is important to us no matter in which field or how small.

Principal Duties
The post holder will contribute to the design and delivery of people and organisation development strategies across the school.

They will be responsible for providing the effective operational and strategic HR function for the school and will work closely with the Headteacher and other school leaders to support a programme of continuous work on key HR priorities.

In addition, the successful candidate will support the implementation of key strategic objectives, through the provision of expert professional advice. The successful candidate will oversee the delivery of efficient HR systems, processes, and policies for all staff across the school and recommend appropriate people management solutions to support the school’s aims and function.

They will use coaching and influencing skills to drive employee engagement and manage change.

Duties and Responsibilities
Leadership and Management

• To develop, lead, communicate and deliver a HR workforce plan for the school, ensuring all HR operational activities link back to the school’s strategic plan
• Provide advice to the Headteacher and senior leaders on all aspects of HR practice, developments, and legislation, ensuring the school adheres to best practice and operates within the law
• Monitor and review the school’s HR policies and procedures to ensure they are fit for purpose
• To work closely with the Headteacher and senior leaders to establish a culture that promotes the school values: honesty, equity, aspiration, respect, and tenacity
• Work with the Headteacher to develop both leadership and management capacity and capability to improve the quality of teaching at all levels
• Support the senior leadership team in developing an organisation where all staff feel valued, supported, involved, and engaged
• Work with the school’s senior leaders to develop and embed a coaching culture across the whole school providing staff with the resources and tools to enhance and improve teaching and learning
• Foster good working relationships with local and regional union representatives and professional associations maintaining strong and effective relationships

Core HR & OD responsibilities

• Explore and implement HR solutions that will improve and enhance the current systems in place to manage and monitor staff absences, recruitment, training, and staff appraisals. Work closely with the school’s Finance Lead to ensure payroll services are effectively managed and delivered.

Recruitment

• Manage the recruitment needs for the school, including implementing and continually developing recruitment and retention strategies and succession planning processes
• Coordinate and manage the advertising, recruitment and selection processes for all staff recruitment including assisting in the drafting of job descriptions, placing adverts, coordinating shortlisting, and interview arrangements, and dealing with enquiries as they arise, assisting with interviews
• Be qualified in evaluating job descriptions and making recommendations on pay grade changes to the Headteacher.
• Work closely with the Headteacher and other senior leaders to prepare material for interviews, including drafting interview questions, input into developing tasks and activities
• Ensure safer recruitment procedures are followed and develop appropriate systems and processes to monitor and manage these
• Creating and continually improving offer letters and contracts of employment, whilst managing the timely distribution of such documents
• Develop a comprehensive onboarding process to ensure that there is an effective induction programme for all new staff and where applicable exit interviews for leavers.

Safeguarding and Compliance (including GDPR General Data Protection Regulation)

• Ensure that the school has effective processes and systems in place to ensure safer recruitment requirements are fully met in line with the Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance
• Monitor entries into the single central record (SCR), ensuring compliance with safeguarding and local requirements
• Monitor and review the school’s Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checking process, ensuring compliance with requirements, and ensuring periodic DBS renewals for staff.
• Keep records in accordance with the school’s record retention schedule and data protection law, always ensuring information security and confidentiality
• Prepare termly workforce reports to the Governing Board on key HR areas such as recruitment, change management, re-structuring, absence management, employee relations and performance management
• Analyse and interpret workforce monitoring data for the Headteacher and senior leaders. Highlight trends and patterns and recommend solutions as necessary to meet trends, shortfalls, and planned changes
• Oversee the annual workforce census.
• Support DPO in monitoring compliance with General Data Protection Regulation.
• Support the DPO in ensuring the fundamentals for ensuring good practice in records management and retention across the school
• Assist with handling complex complaints received, this includes investigating, reviewing, and preparing robust technical responses to their investigative questions.
• Liase with the legal provider on complex data protection matters
• Coordinate when required responses to both subject access requests and freedom of information (or any successor legislation) requests.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements to publish information under the Public Sector Equality Duty and Gender Pay Reporting
• A commitment to operate within the School’s Equalities Framework
• Participating in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion training and successfully embedding and promoting these practices within the school culture

Employee Relations

• Support the Headteacher and other senior leaders on a broad range of employee relations matters including, but not limited to, sickness absence, capability, redundancy, discipline, and grievance, together with attendance at meetings.
• Be responsible for administering the Joint Council committee agenda and follow-up actions, together with attendance at the meetings and developing a positive relationship with union associations.
• Develop relevant reports to monitor absence, performance reviews & training
• Lead on monitoring sickness absence across the school, liaising with the Headteacher, and senior leaders and advising on the sickness absence procedure
• Liaise with the school’s legal advisors as necessary in relation to complex employment and HR-related cases
• Ensure managers are upskilled to deal with people in a fair and effective manner
• Working closely with all managers to resolve conflict through medication and early intervention
• Participate in, and lead when required, on any organisational structure reviews

Performance Management and Training

• Line manage HR staff, including taking responsibility for their professional development
• Work with the Deputy Headteacher to coordinate the school’s professional learning programme, working closely with staff to ensure that needs are prioritised and addressed, and that accurate records of training are kept
• Be the lead for delivering all support staff Performance management training sessions annually or as directed
• Be the lead for administration and co-ordination of the school’s appraisal programme
• Advise line managers on continuous professional learning options to address relevant staff needs
• Identify training needs for new managers and Head of Departments to ensure they have the necessary skills and knowledge to undertake their responsibilities effectively
• Source and arrange in-house and external training and development courses and workshops as directed
• Be prepared to lead on presentations to the whole staff in area of own responsibility and as directed by your line manager.
• Work with senior leaders to embed a coaching culture across the school to empower individuals and drive performance
• Be responsible for organising a minimum of two staff wellbeing events per year.

Remuneration

• Conduct salary and benefits benchmarking for all staff groups to ensure that the school’s provision is competitive . click apply for full job details