HR Assistant - Full-time/Part-time

This is a great opportunity for an effective and enthusiastic HR Assistant to support our HR Team, delivering an efficient and proactive HR service to all schools within the Trust.

You will have worked as an HR Assistant or similar, with demonstrable experience of working with HR processes and dealing with lower-level ER casework including absence management, and minor concerns.

We are looking for someone who is well organised, has excellent attention to detail and great initiative.

You will be able to develop your HR skill set working alongside the HR Manager and other members of the HR Team and should be pragmatic and have a solution focussed approach to working.

The role will be varied, and the successful candidate will need to be hard working, have excellent communication, organisational, and administrative skills.

Previous experience in an education setting would be an advantage, although not essential.

Increased salary possible depending upon experience.

In the HR team, creativity and new perspectives are encouraged to continually improve the service it provides for the Trust.

Please complete the application form using the link below and submit to recruitment@viat.org.uk quoting the job reference number shown above. 

For more information about Valley Invicta Academies Trust, please visit our website:  www.viat.org.uk

Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Posts are subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure. As part of the shortlisting process, the Trust reserves the right to conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and any relevant information found concerning a candidate's suitability to work with children will be discussed.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

A copy of our schools' Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy can be found on their websites and our Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy can be found here.

Valley Invicta Academies Trust expects every employee to take responsibility for promoting a culture that values and respects difference. We welcome applications from all diverse and ethnic groups.

If you require access arrangements to complete an application form, please contact the Trust who will support you i.e., large print, coloured forms.

The Trust reserves the right to recruit to this post at any time.

A ful job description can be found here.

Information about the trust

Valley Invicta Academies Trust is a Multi Academy Trust, based in Maidstone, Kent. The Trust is a family of primary and secondary schools which work in partnership to provide nothing less than outstanding education for all our young people. Presently the Trust is responsible for five primary schools and four secondary schools:

VIAT Primary Schools

Valley Invicta Primary School at Aylesford, Valley Invicta Primary School at Holborough Lakes, Valley Invicta Primary School at Kings Hill, Valley Invicta Primary School at Leybourne Chase and Valley Invicta Primary School at East Borough.

VIAT Secondary Schools

Invicta Grammar School, Valley Park School, The Lenham School and the School of Science and Technology Maidstone. Invicta Grammar School and Valley Park School.