Human Resources Advisor
HR Advisor - 37 hours per week/52 weeks per year
Scale 7 - £32,061 – £35,412
Ready to Make a Difference in People’s Lives?
Join a forward-thinking multi-academy trust where your HR expertise will help shape thriving schools and support the people who make education extraordinary.
At Chelmsford Learning Partnership, we’re looking for a passionate, proactive HR Advisor who thrives on variety, loves solving problems, and is confident supporting managers through real-world people challenges.
What You’ll Be Doing- Be the go-to HR professional for managers across multiple schools
- Provide practical advice on employee relations – absence, disciplinaries, grievances, performance and more
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and compliance, including Single Central Records
- Partner with leaders on change projects (TUPE, restructures, organisational change)
- Deliver insights through HR data and help drive better decision-making
- Help shape HR policies and ensure best practice and legal compliance
What We’re Looking For
You’ll be confident, capable and ready to hit the ground running, with:
- · CIPD Level 3 (minimum) or equivalent experience
- · Strong, up-to-date knowledge of employment law & HR best practice
- · Proven experience advising managers on people issues across a range of HR matters
- · Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – able to influence and support at all levels
- · Ability to manage a busy caseload with accuracy and professionalism
- · Strong organisational skills and a solutions-focused mindset
- · A collaborative, resilient and people-focused approach
Experience in education or safeguarding? That’s a bonus—but not essential.
Why Join Us?- Work in a values-driven organisation that prioritises people
- Be part of a collaborative HR team making real impact
- Develop your career with opportunities to grow and progress
- Enjoy a role where no two days are the same
- Love building relationships and coaching managers
- Enjoy tackling complex people issues with confidence
- Want to be part of a supportive team making a genuine difference in education
Apply now and bring your HR expertise to a role that truly matters.
Ready to apply?
If you’re looking for a rewarding, flexible role where your skills make a real impact—we’d love to hear from you.
The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed within its schools to:
- Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual and cultural development of children and young people;
- Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
- The fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment.
As an equal opportunities employer, The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join The Chelmsford Learning Partnership.
In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references.The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is an equal opportunities employer.