Location: Poole/Dorset working across 4 schools
Contract: 37 hours per week, term time plus 2 weeks (41 weeks per year)
Salary: between £36,182 to £40,006 per annum (actual) £39,862 to £44,075 full time equivalent
Start Date: As soon as possible
Application deadline: Tuesday 5 May 2026 at midday
Interview date: Friday 15 May 2026
Role Summary
We are looking for an exceptional HR Shared Services Partner to play a vital role in supporting our schools and the people who work within them. In this varied and rewarding role, you will be at the heart of our HR service, delivering high quality responsive HR support across a hub of schools. Reporting to the Head of HR and working closely with school leaders and the central HR Business team, you will provide first line HR advice and manage the HR admin for the full employee lifecycle. You will manage complex HR administration with accuracy and professionalism, ensuring payroll changes, contracts and HR systems are maintained to the highest standards.
This is a role for someone who enjoys building strong relationships, balancing competing priorities and making things happen. In return, you’ll join a supportive, collaborative HR team that is deeply committed to safeguarding, inclusion and putting children at the centre of everything we do.
If you’re looking for a role where your HR expertise will genuinely make an impact — and where no two days are the same — we’d love to hear from you.
What you bring
- Has experience in delivering a high-quality HR shared services or HR administration function
- Has a sound understanding of employment policies, procedures and HR best practice
- Is confident in providing first line HR advice and guidance to line managers on routine people matters, with appropriate escalation where required
- Has experience of managing HR processes across the employee lifecycle
- Has high levels of professional judgement, integrity and confidentiality
- Has excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise workload and manage competing deadlines across multiple stakeholders
- Has a methodical, detail focused approach to HR systems, payroll data and compliance requirements
- Has strong communication and relationship management skills, enabling effective collaboration with school leaders and central teams
- Has emotional resilience and the ability to remain calm, objective and solutions focused in a fast-paced environment
What we offer
- An opportunity to be part of a collaborative managed services team with a shared vision of excellence
- Flexible working approach, where possible, including hybrid working
- Wellbeing day (trial for 2025/26)
- Excellent training and development programmes and opportunities
- Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with length of service
- Access to our benefits portal offering a full range of discounts available through Lifestyle Savings
- Access to Wellbeing Support through our Employee Assistance Programme, this includes free confidential telephone and face to face counselling for employees and family members
- Access to financial wellbeing support through a company that provides comprehensive guidance on all things mortgage related
- Eligible for a Blue Light card
EEO and Safeguarding Statement
Hamwic Education Trust (HET) is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal record and barring checks, scrutiny of work and training history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
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