HR Manager

Position title

Human Resources Manager (HRM)

Location

Pathfinder Schools, Greening Road, Rothwell, Northamptonshire, NN14 6BB

Accountable to

Chief Executive Officer

Responsible for

The HRM will manage all transactional HR services within the Pathfinder Schools on a day-to-day basis. They will seek continuous improvements in the quality of those services and look to deliver efficiencies in all aspects of delivery.

General Summary

The HRM will lead and manage all transactional HR services within Pathfinder Schools.

They will ensure that Pathfinder Schools is supported by a highly capable and professional transactional Human Resources function, which provides a focussed and enabling range of HR services.

The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of the Recruitment, Retention and Resourcing strategic aim in that they will ensure that the Trust is able to ‘Attract and retain the right people to do the right things at the right time’.

They will also lead on:

• Recruitment with a values-based approach
• HR governance processes
• Governance of policies and procedures
• Workforce audit
• Job Evaluation process
• Employee well-being
• Lead on other projects as assigned from time to time

Core Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of a high-performance generalist HR service covering end to end of the employee lifecycle.
• Implement HR Strategy within Pathfinder Schools working alongside the executive team, trustees and governors.
• Work closely with the Pathfinder Schools executive team and Senior Leaders providing expert guidance on a variety of HR matters
• Be responsible for the development and maintenance of effective HR procedures and policies to reflect business aims and focus
• Advise on compliance and risk management issues
• Provide a recruitment infrastructure that ensures consistent and fair recruitment and selection practices across Pathfinder Schools
• Ensure that Pathfinder Schools has a values-based recruitment approach that ensures that the Trust recruits staff that live our values and display the right attitudes and behaviours
• Manage the processes covering the hiring of temporary staff across the Trust, with a view to standardisation and streamlining of such activity.
• Be responsible for reporting accurate and useful information to inform planning and resourcing.
• Develop and implement systems, policies and procedures to ensure the Pathfinder Schools is able to recruit, retain and deploy the right numbers of staff with the appropriate values and skills to support the delivery of high-quality teaching to our student population
• Deliver advice, papers, updates and briefings for both internal and external stakeholders as required.
• Co-operate and support internal and external audit and regulators as required, ensuring that all audit actions are completed in a timely manner.
• Identify innovative ways of improving and developing service delivery. Introduce and drive change management initiatives.
• Manage investigations and complex employee relations issues including redundancy and grievance.

Resource Planning

• Take the lead on work planning i.e. scheduling of policy development
• Plan, apply and monitor current and future workforce resourcing requirements to ensure a quality talent pool is onboard to deliver an excellent student experience and outcome. This includes liaising with curriculum leads and function heads to support their future staffing requirements

Leadership and Corporate Governance

• Provide strong and visible leadership to all teaching and non-teaching staff and contribute to the development of staff performance, policy and decision-making activity.
• Actively contribute to the successful team working of the executive team and school leadership teams.
• Ensure that the HR function is positive, proactive and influential in its contribution to the Pathfinder Schools strategic and operational planning processes. 
• Embrace high standards of employment practice and act in accordance with the ‘Pathfinder Schools Code of Conduct’.
• Promote the vision, values and behavioural framework of Pathfinder Schools.

Performance Management

• Ensure that systems are in place to evaluate and review performance against agreed workforce targets and performance indicators.
• Deploy, through Workforce Information & Intelligence, an integrated balanced scorecard approach, to drive service line workforce performance and improvement and enhanced compliance with all relevant standards.
• Implement systems for the regular review of individual performance of direct reports, provide constructive feedback and advice and ensure that their development needs are met to help them achieve their full potential.
• Establish a supportive, fair and open culture that encourages and enables all parts of the workforce to meet required performance standards.

Key Relationships

• Pathfinder Schools executive team
• Staff at all levels
• Finance/Payroll Department
• Recognised Trades Unions
• Local Authorities

Equality and Diversity

• Promote equality of opportunity and diversity in area of responsibility and within all areas of employment/HR policy.
• Ensure compliance with equality and diversity legislation and develop active commitment to the need to ensure equality of opportunity and the benefits of diversity.
• Indicate an acceptance of, commitment to and promotion of the principles underlying Pathfinder Schools Diversity & Inclusion Policy Statement.

Personal and People Development

• Lead the review and development of the performance appraisal system across Pathfinder Schools and encourage full participation in the process in order to identify quality improvements and development needs, both individual and Trust wide.

• To participate in Pathfinder Schools performance appraisal system and to undertake any identified training and development related to the post.

Additional

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances, in discussion with the post-holder.  As a member of a small but expanding executive team, the post holder will be expected to contribute to the overall team effort and be involved in tasks and responsibilities outside of their direct specialism.