Job Description

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The purpose of the HR (Human Resources) Manager is to align Yehudi Menuhin School’s workforce with its overall business goals. To manage the employee lifecycle, shared workplace culture, and ensure compliance with employment laws.

Job Specification/Key Areas of Responsibility

HR Administration and Employee Relations

  • Support the HR Administrator with maintaining the Single Central Register, ensuring safeguarding compliance and inspection readiness.
  • Ensure HR policies and the Staff Handbook are current and legally compliant.
  • Maintain accurate staff records, including contracts, FTE data and personnel files.
  • Advise on contractual and salary changes, ensuring all amendments are documented.
  • Monitor National Minimum Wage changes and assess the impact on staff.
  • Support managers with performance management, absence, disciplinary and grievance matters.
  • Support the HR Administrator to manage recruitment, onboarding, induction, probation and exit processes.
  • Coordinate right-to-work checks, mandatory training and compliance documentation.
  • Administer staff benefit schemes, including Medicash and BUPA

Leadership, Wellbeing and Reporting

  • Line manage and support the HR Administrator.
  • Collaborate with the Director of Wellbeing on staff engagement and wellbeing initiatives.
  • Prepare HR KPI reports for senior leadership.
  • Ensure compliance with UK GDPR for employee data.
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of employment legislation.

Person Specification 

Essential:

  • Comprehensive understanding of UK employment law.
  • Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills
  • Professional, confidential and effective communicator.
  • Line management experience.

Desirable:

  • CIPD Level 5 qualification.
  • Experience within an educational or multi-site organisation.

Interpersonal & Soft Skills

  • Emotional Intelligence (EQ): The ability to read the room, understand employee sentiments, and navigate sensitive situations with empathy.
  • Conflict Resolution: Mediating disputes fairly, handling grievances constructively, and facilitating difficult conversations (like performance management or redundancies).
  • Active Listening: Genuinely understanding employee perspectives and workplace needs rather than just dictating policies.

Strategic & Business Acumen:

  • Commercial Awareness: Understanding how the HR department’s goals directly affect the company’s broader operational and financial success.
  • Change Management: Leading the organisation smoothly through periods of growth, restructuring, or cultural shifts.
  • Workforce Planning: Forecasting future hiring needs and designing strategies for talent acquisition, upskilling, and succession.

Compliance & Administration:

  • Employment Law and Regulations: Staying updated on local labour laws, workplace rights and data protection requirements (e.g. GDPR compliance in the UK).
  • Policy Formulation: Designing, writing, and updating clear employee handbooks and contracts.

Technical & Analytical Skills:

  • HR Tech Savviness: Proficiency with modern HR Information Systems (HRIS), applicant tracking systems, and automated onboarding platforms.
  • People Analytics: Interpreting data on turnover rates, employee engagement, and performance metrics to make informed, evidence-based decisions.

The School is registered with the DBS and successful applicants will be required to complete successfully the Disclosure Procedure at Enhanced level.  It is an offence for a person barred from working with children to apply for this post.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

Our full Safeguarding/Child Protection Policy can be found here.

The Yehudi Menuhin School is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

For full details about the role, please download the Candidate Information Pack.

If you would like to apply for the role, please use the 'Apply Now' button at the top of the page and complete our application form. The deadline for applications is Friday, 12 June 2026 at 12 noon. Interviews to take place w/c 15th June 2026.