• Locations

  City of London, London

• Salary

  £40180 - £50084 per annum

• Sector

  Education, Leadership & Management

• Type

  Permanent

HR Manager | Secondary State School | London

Are you an experienced HR professional looking for a rewarding role that balances professional impact with an excellent work-life balance? We are delighted to be partnering with a prominent secondary state school in the London Borough of Hounslow to recruit an HR Manager.

Working closely with the Director of HR, you will provide a high-quality, efficient, and empathetic HR service. This is a pivotal role, ensuring that all aspects of the employee lifecycle are managed with precision, care, and total compliance with statutory requirements, including Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE).

The Role

You will be the engine room of the school’s HR operations, ensuring that processes are planned, managed, and recorded effectively. Your remit will include:

Compliance & Systems: Maintaining the Single Central Register (SCR), personnel files, and HR systems with meticulous attention to detail and data integrity.

Absence Management: Coordinating sickness absence, managing maternity, paternity, and adoption leave, and providing supportive guidance to staff regarding compassionate leave.

Performance Cycles: Proactively driving the probation and appraisal processes across the school to ensure consistency and timely completion.

Employee Lifecycle: Managing end-to-end onboarding and offboarding, including recruitment support, pre-employment checks, induction days, and insightful exit interviews.

Reporting & Development: Producing routine HR reports to inform leadership decision-making and working collaboratively to continuously improve the employee experience.

Collaboration: Assisting with payroll administration and ensuring all HR policies are user-focused and up to date.

About You

The ideal candidate will have a strong HR administrative background, ideally within the education sector. You will be a champion of confidentiality, possess excellent organisational skills, and have a natural ability to offer clear, competent guidance to colleagues at all levels.

Key Details

Salary: £40,180 – £50,084 (FTE)

Contract: Term Time Only + 2 weeks

Hours: 36 hours per week

Reporting to: Director of HR

If you are a proactive HR professional looking to support a vibrant school community while enjoying the benefits of a term-time-plus contract, we would love to hear from you.

To apply, please submit your CV and a brief cover letter outlining your relevant experience.

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual’s skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.