Working With Us

Harris Academy Battersea is a mixed state secondary school serving a truly comprehensive community in the heart of London. We are an Ofsted ’Outstanding’ school with a track record of delivering fantastic outcomes year on year for our students.
Our Academy is centred on the values of Knowledge, Integrity and Resilience and these underpin the way we work for both students and staff. Our staff are inclusive, diverse and committed to our mission: we develop aspirational young people to thrive in a changing world.
HABS offers a broad, academic and challenging curriculum founded on six key curriculum aims:
* To develop deep, long-lasting knowledge•    To develop students into accomplished readers, writers and orators
* To provide experiences within and beyond the classroom that enrich learning and ensure students can make informed choices about their futures
* To equip students to challenge injustice in all its forms
* To enable students to understand how they learn
* To support students to reflect on their choices and values to improve themselves and their community
These aims underpin all elements of our curriculum, and we see our core academic curriculum and wider personal development curriculum as intrinsically linked. All staff at the Academy contribute to the personal development of our students through their interactions with students, modelling our values and through their contributions to the wider life of the academy.
Our associate staff work within thriving teams and are integral to the functioning of our Academy. There is close collaboration between teaching and associate teams, and we are constantly seeking ways to embed the most effective possible collaboration in all aspects of what we do.
A thriving school can only function with fantastic staff, and our vision is to make working at HABS both enjoyable and sustainable. The wellbeing of staff underpins every decision we make, and we seek to ensure that every member of staff can enjoy a work-life-balance enabling them to bring their best to work each day.
As a part of the Harris Federation, all staff in the Academy benefit from being part of our network of more than fifty primary and secondary academies across London. Teaching and associate staff regularly draw on the support of experienced colleagues from across the Federation, participating in network meetings and benefitting from bespoke expert support from our central team. This enables every colleague to achieve success and pursue excellence in their roles.
Main Areas of Responsibility

Your role will include:
* Taking full responsibility for the Single Central Register
* Ensuring all visitors, third party contractors, supply and self-employed staff have the appropriate level of clearance, adhering to safeguarding policy and DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance at all times
* Overseeing the marking of all staff and visitors during fire evacuations
* Overseeing the recruitment process, including administering recruitment checks for new staff, managing and implementing the induction process and following all legal requirements
* Maintaining, updating and archiving personnel files in an orderly manner
* Administering and overseeing all staff resignations, including conducting exit interviews and providing analysis to the Principal
* Administering probationary periods, ensuring that Line managers have completed meetings and forms in a timely manner
* Administering all Performance Line Management procedures
* Producing yearly spreadsheet to Principal and Chair of Governors tracking pay progression with performance.
* Ensuring HR policies are adhered to at all times.
* Maintaining an up to date register of staff with named medical conditions and needs and ensuring that these are known by the relevant staff
* Carrying out bookings and administration relating to staff training and development
* Ensuring internal portals are kept up to date with staff details
* Administering payroll and amendments
* Undertaking stress risk assessments and risk assessments for pregnant employees where required.
* Scheduling all staff Informal Absence meetings, First Formal Absence meetings and Final Absence meetings, including preparing absence reports for the meetings and working with Occupational Health where required
* Organising, administering and minuting individual staff meetings
* Producing letters to staff as required
* Administering the staff benefit application process
* Administering the Annual Census return.
* Producing HR reports for Governor meetings, Harris Federation Internal audits and external inspections
* Undertaking regular Safer Recruitment training
* Liaising with payroll and staff pension providers regarding staff pension opting in/out process
What We are Looking For

We would like to hear from you if you have:
* Experience of working in a school
* A CIPD qualified (or working towards)
* The ability to build and sustain professional standards and relationships with staff at all levels and those outside the academy.
* Appreciation of issues of sensitivity and confidentiality and adhering to Data Protection
* Excellent administrative skills, with advanced ICT Skills
* Excellent listening and communication skills, in both speech and writing, and sensitivity in complex situations
* Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with strong attention to detail
* A good telephone manner
* The ability to be flexible and adapt to change, and the ability to use your own initiative and work without supervision
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
Applying for this Position

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
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