Trust HR Coordinator
Closing Date: Friday 29th August 2025 (12pm)
Job Title: Trust HR Coordinator
Closing Date: Friday 29th August 2025
Shortlisting: Thursday 4th September 2025
Interview: Monday 8th September 2025
Start Date: As soon as possible - September 2025
Salary: £30,964 FTE per annum, dependent on skills and experience. (Support Staff Group 5)
Hours: 37.5 hrs per week, Full time (52 weeks)
Location: Trust Office in Truro with travel to our schools across Cornwall, Devon and Torbay as required
Contract type: Permanent
Are you passionate about making a difference in the education sector?
Do you have an interest in HR and/or recruitment, and want to be part of a dynamic, supportive team? If so, we would love to hear from you!
About Us
At Special Partnership Trust, we’re on a mission to advocate for high quality Special Educational Needs (SEN) provision across the Southwest. As an ambitious and aspirational Trust, we believe in creating inclusive and empowering workplaces that put people first.
The Role
As Trust HR Coordinator, you will work closely with our schools to ensure that our HR processes run smoothly and efficiently. Reporting into the HR Lead, you’ll support the recruitment and onboarding process across the Trust and provide administrative assistance across the lifecycle.
You will also monitor and respond to HR queries, develop and maintain our suite of HR policies and support with projects and initiatives, working closely with the HR Lead and HR Partner to ensure best practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate recruitment activities, including liaising with agencies, placing adverts, managing the recruitment inbox, ID checks and ensuring compliance with Safer Recruitment
- Act as first point of contact for HR queries (email, telephone)
- Ensure HR systems and documentation are kept up-to-date across the Trust
- Support accurate absence monitoring and ensure consistent procedures across schools
- Provide admin support for Trust-wide HR projects, process developments and people strategy initiatives
Our Total Reward Offer
The Special Partnership Trust recognises the importance of developing a properly implemented People Strategy to underpin the overall strategic aims of the Trust.
Our People Strategy is designed to help us attract prospective high calibre candidates, as well as drive engagement, productivity and retention of our high performing and high potential employees. It reflects our belief in putting our people first. This does not mean putting our learners second. It is based on the philosophy that if we create a positive and rewarding work environment, if our staff feel motivated, well managed and well supported, they in turn will provide the best possible outcome for our learners.
We recognise that our total reward offer has got to consist of more than just money. We seek to provide our staff with a diverse range of benefits that support their day to day needs both at work and outside of work. These include generous leave entitlements and pension scheme as well as access to health/wellbeing tools, training & development, career pathways and opportunities to ensure they feel valued.
For further information, click here to visit the Special Partnership Trust website for our People Strategy and Benefits.
Contact Us
Informal conversations are welcomed. If you would like to discuss the role in confidence please call Lucy Hamilton-Reeve (HR Lead) on 01872 613 115 (Ext. 1026).
Please visit the Special Partnership website, www.specialpartnership.org for further information about our Trust and an application pack. Completed applications should be returned to recruitment@specialpartnership.org no later than Friday 29th August 2025.
In addition to your application form, please click on the following link to complete the Equal Opportunities Monitoring form Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form.
Safeguarding:
The Special Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of checks and references, including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In accordance with guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education; the Trust will undertake an online search of all shortlisted candidates.