HR Manager

at  Archway Learning Trust

EMPLOYEE RELATIONS (ER) ADVICE AND SUPPORT

• To lead a team providing responsive telephone, email and face to face advice and support to all academies within the Trust on routine and complex capability, disciplinary, grievance, redundancy, restructure, safeguarding, dignity at work, diversity, equality, sickness and other absence cases.
• Partner the Principals to ensure that the People Strategy contributes to school improvement.
• To attend on site visits to individual academies relating to formal and complex disciplinary, capability, grievance, sickness absence cases, hearings or appeals to advise the Principal, ELT and/or panel.
• To lead the HR Adviser and influence the HR Operations Team in delivering a responsive service to all academies and central services within the Trust, ensuring compliance with employment law and consistent advice in a solution focused manner.
• To ensure the Trust has a proactive approach to absence management, providing advice, guidance and training to managers and ensuring the HR team provide timely sickness, authorised or unauthorised absence information/data to the Trust’s executive team and leaders at individual academies.
• To resolve ER casework including, where appropriate negotiating and drafting Settlement Agreements in consultation with the Chief People Officer.
• To liaise with the Trust’s employment law advisors and insurers as necessary regarding risk management, ACAS conciliation, indemnity provision, settlement agreements and employment tribunals.