Job Description

Salary:

Grade 10; Point 31-35 Cheshire East Council NJC Pay Structure

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Start date:

16th June 2025

Apply by:

12 May 2025

Job overview

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Salary:

40,476 - 46,581 Grade 10, Cheshire East Council NJC Pay Structure

Start Date:

ASAP (Ideally) Monday 16th June 2025

Contract Type:

Full-time (37 hours); full year (52.143 weeks)

Contract Term:

Permanent

Closing Date: Monday 12th May 2025 at 12:00 noon

Interview Date: Friday 16th May 2025

Wilmslow High School


School age range: 11-18


Number on roll: approx. 2,200 (including 500 sixth form)


We hope to appoint from 16th June 2025 but will be flexible: we recognise that the right candidate may need a longer notice period.


This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to take on a role that combines involvement in the strategic development of the organisation with the need to ensure operational functions and responsibilities are carried out highly effectively.

The successful candidate will be a strong strategic leader and team player and will have: Significant experience of working with HR procedures and policies Tenacity and perseverance Strong interpersonal skills and high levels of emotional intelligence Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines

This role is suited to a 'hands on' HR leader, who will be responsible for driving forward our HR department and strategy, as well as the efficient and effective management of all areas of our people management activity - recruitment, induction, employee wellbeing, safeguarding, absence management, performance management and professional development.


We are looking for a strong HR generalist, ideally with experience in the education sector, who has a confident, solution focussed approach and is fully aligned with our schools' visions and values. You will report directly to the Head teacher and will be responsible for managing a small HR team.


We offer a happy and caring environment rooted in our core values, in which staff and students can flourish, whilst challenging ourselves to pursue excellence for all our students. The school is set in extensive grounds, ideally positioned between the thriving city of Manchester and the open countryside of the Peak District.


We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person's suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process.


If invited for interview, you will be:


asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. subject to an online search. This is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we may wish to explore at interview.

If successful, you will be subject to:

an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service. pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, DBS and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.
Current or previous employers will be contacted and information requested will include:

Disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is 'time expired' Whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns

About

Wilmslow High School

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Wilmslow High School

Holly Road, Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 1LZ
United Kingdom

+44 1625 526191

Rated as Good by Ofsted in 2019, Wilmslow High School is heavily oversubscribed in both the 11 - 16 sector and the sixth form. Student numbers have increased with more and more students from outside the town and from the independent sector of education seeking places. As the only state secondary school in the town, it enjoys good relationships with the partner primary schools in Wilmslow, Handforth and Alderley Edge, from where the majority of our students come

Headteacher

Mrs Christina Kane

Location

Wilmslow, a pleasant commuter town with a population of about 32,000, is situated on the southern outskirts of Manchester. It is within easy reach of attractive countryside both locally and in the nearby Peak District. The town is well served by the motorway network and by rail; Manchester Airport is nearby. A wide variety of housing is available in south Manchester, Wilmslow, Macclesfield and the surrounding Cheshire countryside. The town is mixed socially, with many areas of affluence and some communities of relative social deprivation.