HR Manager - Wilmslow

Contract Term: Permanent

Closing Date: Monday 12th May 2025 at 12:00 noon

Interview Date: Friday 16th May 2025

Wilmslow High School

We hope to appoint from 16th June 2025 but will be flexible: we recognise that the right candidate may need a longer notice period.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to take on a role that combines involvement in the strategic development of the organisation with the need to ensure operational functions and responsibilities are carried out highly effectively.

• The successful candidate will be a strong strategic leader and team player and will have:
• Significant experience of working with HR procedures and policies
• Tenacity and perseverance
• Strong interpersonal skills and high levels of emotional intelligence
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines

This role is suited to a ‘hands on’ HR leader, who will be responsible for driving forward our HR department and strategy, as well as the efficient and effective management of all areas of our people management activity – recruitment, induction, employee wellbeing, safeguarding, absence management, performance management and professional development.

We are looking for a strong HR generalist, ideally with experience in the education sector, who has a confident, solution focussed approach and is fully aligned with our schools’ visions and values. You will report directly to the Head teacher and will be responsible for managing a small HR team.

We offer a happy and caring environment rooted in our core values, in which staff and students can flourish, whilst challenging ourselves to pursue excellence for all our students. The school is set in extensive grounds, ideally positioned between the thriving city of Manchester and the open countryside of the Peak District.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person’s suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process.

If invited for interview, you will be:

• asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
• subject to an online search. This is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we may wish to explore at interview.

If successful, you will be subject to:

• an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
• pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, DBS and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.

Current or previous employers will be contacted and information requested will include:

• Disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is ‘time expired’
• Whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns