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Level 5 People Professional Apprenticeship
DISCOVERY EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Essex (CM13 2HG)
Closes in 30 days (Saturday 31 October 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 30 September 2026
Wage
Competitive wage offered
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
Essex Scale 8 (pt 25-28): £37,092 - £39,881* inc. Fringe Allowance
*based on Essex Schools Pay Scales 2025/26
Training
Training course: People professional (level 5)
Hours: Monday to Friday
Shifts to be confirmed: 37 hours a week
Start date: Monday 16 November 2026
Duration: 1 year 9 months
Positions available: 1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Support the Director of HR with day-to-day HR activities across the Trust’s secondary schools
- Advise and support managers and employees with HR queries and employee relations issues, such as absence, probation, capability, disciplinary and grievance matters
- Help with recruitment and onboarding, including interview panels, induction and ensuring required training and checks are completed
- Maintain accurate and confidential employee records, including personnel files and HR systems
- Support safer recruitment and safeguarding processes, including checking DBS, training, Single Central Records (SCR) and compliance requirements
- Assist with payroll administration by gathering information such as contract changes, overtime and leaver details
- Monitor probation periods, arrange check-ins and follow up with managers where concerns arise
- Support absence management, including monitoring sickness, conducting welfare calls, arranging return-to-work processes and identifying when Occupational Health support may be needed
- Prepare HR reports and analyse data, such as absence, turnover, probation and employee engagement, identifying trends or gaps
- Assist with employee relations cases, including investigations, meetings and hearings by organising documentation, taking notes and arranging meetings
- Support Ofsted inspections by ensuring HR and safeguarding records are accurate and up to date
- Help managers understand and follow HR policies, employment law and statutory guidance
- Contribute to employee wellbeing initiatives and help promote good absence-management practices
- Work closely with the central HR and Recruitment teams to ensure consistent processes across the Trust
- Share good practice and knowledge between schools and contribute to Trust-wide HR projects and initiatives
- Use technology to improve HR processes, reporting and workflows
- Provide support to other HR colleagues, including acting as a first point of contact when the Director of HR is unavailable
- Continue developing your own HR knowledge, particularly around employment law, policies and best practice
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Where you'll work
St Martin's School
Brentwood
Hanging Hill Lane
Hutton
Brentwood
Essex
CM13 2HG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider: EDUCATION AND SKILLS TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
Training course: People professional (level 5)
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What you'll learn
- Communicate information through appropriate channels to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
- Build and manage multiple and diverse stakeholder's relationships.
- Advise on application of policy, regulation, and law for HR issues.
- Use data and metrics to mitigate areas of risk and highlight opportunities.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders to support achievement of business and organisation objectives.
- Present insight and conclusions on workforce issues or people process failures.
- Enable stakeholders to deliver people solutions. e.g., through negotiation, providing guidance.
- Lead and improve people capability within the business.
- Manage and deliver people related business and change projects.
- Handle and process people data according to legislative requirements.
- Embed organisational people policy to promote a diverse and inclusive culture with stakeholders.
- Analyse financial implications of people solutions ensuring value for money.
- Support the delivery of people strategies using technology and innovation in accordance with regulations and policies.
- Make decisions on people policy and issues raised, escalating concerns outside own area of responsibility.
- Use prioritisation tools e.g., priority matrix to manage workload, and deliver against business objectives.
- Challenge matters which conflict with ethical values or legislation.
- Contribute to the development of people policies and procedures or people initiatives.
- Interpret people and management data, from both internal and external sources to identify trends.
- Educate and support stakeholders to deal with wellbeing issues.
- Benchmark to improve people policies and procedures, or people initiatives.
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Requirements
Essential qualifications:
- GCSE in: English (grade C)
- Maths (grade C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills:
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
About this employer
Discovery Educational Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) based in South Essex, currently responsible for five schools: three primary schools and two secondary schools. These are Chase High School, Hogarth Primary School, Kelvedon Hatch Community Primary School, Larchwood Primary School and St Martin’s School. The Trust currently supports around 3,861 pupils and 513 staff.
https://www.discoveryeducationaltrust.co.uk/ourtrust/about-us/
Company benefits
- Pension scheme - also automatically includes Life Assurance
- Generous Referral Bonus for employees who refer quality candidates
- Employee savings and discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme – free confidential wellbeing support for employees and dependants
- Bike2Work scheme
- Health Cash plan to support with every day healthcare costs – e.g. dental, optical, physiotherapy. Includes Virtual GP service
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Upon completion of the Apprenticeship you could be offered a permanent position within the Trust
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is: EDUCATION AND SKILLS TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
Stacey Turk
sturk@discoveryeducationaltrust.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000055636.
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Closes in 30 days (Saturday 31 October 2026 at 11:59pm)
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