Regional HR Business Partner - Maternity Cover

  • Noble Recruiting
  • Witham, Essex
  • May 08, 2026
Full time HR / Recruitment

Job Description

Regional HR Business Partner - Maternity Cover

Up to 12 months

Salary: £51,300 - £54,400

Location: Witham / 2 days from home (occasional travel to other schools within Essex)

Monday - Friday / 37 hours per week

Responsible for: HR Advisors & Coordinators

Start: As soon as possible

An educational institute are searching for a Regional HR Business Partner on a Maternity cover. This role will be responsible for managing and developing a proactive and effective HR Service within the regional schools.

Responsibilities:

To lead and support the HR team in providing expert advice and guidance to Principals, Senior leads, Chair of governors and key stakeholders

  • Advise on employment practices, pay, conditions and employment law
  • Support a wide range of HR issues including disciplinaries, absence, grievances and attendance meetings
  • Support with any restructure or organisational changes, included preparing for Ofsted
  • Providing pragmatic, solution focused HR advice in a fast paced environment
  • Resolve conflict
  • Establish productive and proactive employee relationships
  • Manage the delivery of the regional HR service to Principals on all complex HR issues including: TUPE, redundancies, Maternity and paternity, redundancies, dismissals, and employment laws
  • Ensure written HR documents are correct and in order for the panel
  • Check and sign off reports monthly relating to payroll
  • Support the Talent Partners with overseeing recruitment processes and selection
  • Ensure the HR team provide correct advice and ensure all documentation are in order
  • Ensure team provides legally compliance HR letters, and documents are logged on individual files
  • Manage teams KPIs
  • Visiting schools within the area when needed.
  • Liaise with the legal teams to ensure all issues are dealt with
  • Ensure safeguarding is in place
  • Ad-hoc duties

Your Experience

  • Proven experience within a Senior HR role within the Education Sector, local government or the wider public sector
  • Experience delivering support across multiple sites
  • Experience in managing a HR team

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