HR Manager

Full Time Post

Salary range of £60,000pa

Expected start date: September 2023 if possible

Are you an ambitious, experienced and qualified HR professional looking to lead a small team of happy, friendly and highly motivated staff wishing to provide a high-quality HR service to the Royal Russell community?

We are looking to appoint an HR Manager to lead the HR team. This is a pivotal role, at the heart of the Royal Russell community, where you will work with 400 colleagues through the School, reporting to the Director of Operations/Finance with responsibility for providing operational and strategic support across the whole of the School on all HR and people matters, including supporting both Headmasters, the teaching and operational managers to develop and deliver effective people management practices. Your remit will also include drafting and reviewing all HR policies and processes to ensure that they effectively underpin the School’s strategic objectives, our strategic inclusion plan. You will lead our existing HR Team, of an HR Advisor and a Payroll and HR Advisor, who provide a high-quality HR service to Royal Russell School.

As a proven leader, you will have the gravitas to represent the school internally and externally, with confidence to lead your team autonomously. We welcome candidates from a broad HR background who are CIPD qualified, with significant post-qualification and leadership experience, who are used to providing advice to managers at all levels and who are equally happy to get involved with the individual people issues.

You should have excellent people skills and high professional standards together with a lively, friendly personality, strong empathy with young people, excellent communication skills and be happy to work independently, or with part of the wider School Leadership Team. You will be comfortable using an HR database, (which is provided by CIPHR) to provide relevant management information and reports, able to manipulate staffing data in excel to work with the Finance team in the annual staff budget-setting process and have strong attention to detail to ensure that accurate changes are made to the monthly payroll in time for each pay run. You will understand the need for appropriate compliance checks for new staff appointments so that the Single Central Register remains accurate and up-to-date at all times.

Royal Russell School is an HMC/IAPS co-educational school with over 1100 pupils between the ages of 3 and 18, situated on a beautiful green campus of 110 acres in South London. We have 200 boarding students in the Senior School and are proud of our beautiful day and boarding facilities that rank amongst the best in the UK.  Our pupils, parents and staff experience a warm and friendly environment with strong pastoral care for every pupil alongside a comprehensive co-curricular and enrichment programme. Our latest ISI Inspection was carried out in September 2022 and we are delighted to report that Royal Russell achieved the top grade of excellent in every aspect. 

Royal Russell offers excellent benefits including a competitive salary on our own salary scale. As part of the vibrant community of the historic Royal Russell School, you will join a friendly and dedicated team, with easy access to transport links (Coombe Lane tram stop served by the New Addington tram is opposite the School entrance). In addition, we offer:

• 30 days (6 weeks) paid holiday plus 8 public holidays,

• immediate non-contributory pension with employer contributions and Life Insurance,

• membership of BUPA,

• meals in the dining hall during term-time,

• free onsite parking,

• use of our on-site sports facilities, including tennis courts, swimming pool and gym facilities,

• annual flu jab,

• a discount of up to 50% on School fees (85% discount for wrap around care before and after school during term-time) and 25% discount with the Royal Russell Holiday Club which operates during School holiday periods.

Applications will be considered on receipt and should arrive no later than 9am on Monday 12 June 2023. Interviews are expected to take place the following week. We reserve the right to interview at any point during the recruitment process so early applications are encouraged. If you have not heard from us by 16 June 2023 you should presume that you have not been successful on this occasion.