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About The Role
Are you an experienced HR generalist looking for a flexible, meaningful role where you can truly shape workplace culture?
Netley Campus is looking for a proactive, compassionate, and skilled HR Manager to join our team. Following significant growth across our campus over the past three years, we are establishing this brand-new, dedicated HR function to support school leaders so they can focus on delivering exceptional teaching and learning.
Working across two unique educational settings on one shared campus, you will lead day-to-day HR operations, champion staff wellbeing, and serve as the strategic link between school leadership and Camden HR advisory services.
About Netley Campus
Situated near Regent’s Park in a vibrant, culturally rich, and diverse community, Netley Campus brings together two distinct schools bound by a shared commitment to inclusion and child-centered excellence:
- Netley Primary School: A high-achieving, inclusive beacon school comprising a mainstream primary, Woodlands (a specialist centre for children with Autism), and Acorns (our 2-year-old provision).
- Robson House: A dedicated Primary Pupil Referral Unit supporting up to 30 children with social, emotional, and mental health needs.
Together, we foster a warm, hardworking, and deeply supportive environment with a passionate staff team dedicated to breaking down barriers to learning.
The Role
As our campus HR Manager, you will take operational ownership of our HR landscape. Backed by the expertise and model policies of Camden HR, you will provide clear guidance to senior leadership, manage recruitment and onboarding, and keep our workforce practices running smoothly.
Key Responsibilities:
- Operational HR Lead: Serve as the primary liaison between school leadership, trade unions, and Camden HR advisors for employee relations, casework, and policy implementation.
- Talent & Recruitment: Coordinate end-to-end safer recruitment, draft adverts, oversee candidate pipelines, manage onboarding, and maintain strict compliance across our Single Central Record (SCR).
- Employee Relations & Performance: Manage absence procedures with care and clarity, support line managers through capability/disciplinary processes, and oversee annual appraisal cycles and probation reviews.
- Staff Wellbeing: Champion initiatives that make our campus an exceptional place to work, including Occupational Health referrals, Employee Assistance Programmes, and health/cycle schemes.
- Compliance & Records: Ensure all HR data, contracts, and policies comply with current employment law, safeguarding standards, and data protection guidelines.
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About You
We are looking for a confident HR professional who thrives in a varied, autonomous role and brings both technical capability and strong emotional intelligence.
Essential Requirements:
- Proven HR Generalist Experience: A solid track record in generalist HR, ideally within an educational, public sector, or local authority framework.
- Strong Knowledge Base: Up-to-date knowledge of UK employment law, employee relations, and safer recruitment/safeguarding principles.
- Communication & Resilience: Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to handle delicate situations with discretion, empathy, and diplomatic firmness.
- Autonomy & Organisation: Ability to prioritise your own workload across two busy school environments.
- Tech-Savvy: Proficient in Google Drive Suite and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
What We Offer
- Flexibility: A structured 3-day working pattern with options for negotiable hybrid/offsite working arrangements.
- Support: Expert external advisory backing via Camden HR, ensuring you are never working in isolation.
- Culture: A deeply supportive, values-driven team environment where employee wellbeing is genuinely prioritised.
- Benefits: Access to Camden local authority pension schemes, staff wellbeing packages, cycle-to-work schemes.
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How To Apply
To apply, please complete the application form addressing how your experience meets the Essential Criteria outlined in the Person Specification. References to desirable criteria are welcomed where applicable.
Netley Campus is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and safer recruitment verifications.
Application forms can also be downloaded from www.netley.camden.sch.uk.
All completed application forms should be emailed to hr@netley.camden.sch.uk marked ‘HR Manager Application’. Alternatively you may post or hand-deliver documents to Netley Primary School, 74 Stanhope Street, NW1 3EX, marked ‘HR Manager Application’.
You are strongly encouraged to visit the school and this can be organised by contacting the school on 020 3772 0350 or by emailing visit@netley.camden.sch.uk. *School is closed for summer holidays and so visits will be arranged for after 1st September.
Completed application forms must be received by midday on Wednesday 16th September 2026. Interviews will take place on the week of 21st September 2026. The successful applicant will take up the post as soon as available after that date.
If you have not heard from us by this time, then please note that on this occasion, your application has not been successful. Good luck!
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