Base pay range
Remote, South East UK, with occasional travel to school sites and Juniper Chelmsford Office | 37.5 hours | Salary £42,500
The Role
Join Juniper Education as a Human Resources Consultant and make a meaningful impact across schools and academies in the South East UK. We champion educators, empowering them to shape future generations. With our proven school education management systems and services we address a spectrum of needs, ensuring excellence in education and influencing the lives of students and educators.
Core Values
- Empowerment: Equipping everyone with the tools, intelligence, connections, and freedom to make informed decisions, recognised and respected by a collaborative culture.
- Purpose: Supporting everyone to reach their highest potential, thereby enabling all children to achieve their best.
- Passion: Because we love what you do, you’re at the heart of everything we do.
- Innovation: Delivering meaningful solutions with expertise and creative thinking to influence the ever‑changing world of education.
- Collaboration: The cornerstone of our success as it enables us to harness diverse perspectives and strengths, ensuring that together, we achieve more than we could ever do alone.
Responsibilities
- Deliver proactive and robust HR advice to schools, academies, and trust sites.
- Lead on complex employee relations cases, including safeguarding, TUPE, restructuring, and reorganisation.
- Act as a strategic partner to senior leaders in schools and local authorities, advising on risk, compliance, and workforce planning.
- Coach, mentor and upskill school and trust leaders to build long‑term HR capability.
- Collaborate on high‑level negotiations with trade unions.
- Design and deliver training to clients and internal teams – both live and e‑learn.
- Represent Juniper in tribunals and legal matters, working closely with Legal Services.
- Drive service improvements, identify new business opportunities, and contribute to service development.
Qualifications
- CIPD qualification or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience advising on complex HR casework and projects.
- Excellent communication, coaching, and influencing skills.
- Strong time management and ability to work independently under pressure.
- Experience supporting senior leaders in schools, academies, or local authorities.
- Mediation training or experience (desirable).
Benefits
- Day 1 right to company sickness pay.
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement.
- Opportunity to purchase additional leave.
- Entitlement to carry over leave to next entitlement year.
- Day 1 access to 24/7 GP & prescription services.
- Day 1 access to rewards platform.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Enhanced maternity & adoption pay.
- Day 1 access to employee assistance platform.
- Funded development/qualification opportunities.
- Voluntary health care cash plan.
- Voluntary private medical insurance plus.
We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at recruitment@junipereducation.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Human Resources
Industries
Education Management
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