Enable Trust
People and Culture Advisor
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People and Culture Advisor
People & Culture Advisor – Enable Trust
£32,597 - £35,412 full-time equivalent (actual salary for 30 hours, term-time only, £22,733 - £24,703)
Part-time up to 30 hours per week (4 days) considered, Permanent contract, Term time only
Note: Please include in your supporting statement what your preferred working pattern would be if successful.
Do you enjoy helping people do their best work by providing supportive, practical HR advice?
Would you like to be part of a Trust where relationships, inclusion and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do?
At Enable Trust, we're passionate about achieving the best outcomes for children and young people through the incredible people who support them every day.
We're looking for a People & Culture Advisor to join our friendly and growing central team. You'll work closely with managers across our schools, providing trusted advice, supporting people processes, and helping to create a positive experience for staff throughout their journey with us.
This is a varied and rewarding role, offering the opportunity to build strong relationships, make a genuine difference to colleagues, and contribute to a culture where people feel valued, supported and able to thrive. As a newly established role, you'll also have the chance to share ideas and help shape the future of our People & Culture service.
What you'll be doing
- Advising managers on employee relations matters, including absence, performance and conduct.
- Supporting employee relations casework and preparing documentation.
- Being a first point of contact for people-related queries.
- Supporting recruitment, onboarding and employee lifecycle processes.
- Working with external payroll and recruitment partners.
- Helping deliver wellbeing, engagement and people initiatives.
- Supporting policy reviews, reporting and compliance activities.
- Providing guidance and training to managers and colleagues.
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Who we're looking for
- Experience in an HR, People, or advisory role.
- Positive, proactive and motivated to make a difference.
- Confident building relationships and supporting managers.
- Organised, adaptable and able to manage a varied workload.
- Professional, approachable and solutions-focused.
- Committed to inclusion, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Eager to learn and grow within a developing People & Culture team.
- We welcome applications from all sectors - the right attitude and enthusiasm matter most.
- CIPD Level 5, or working towards it, would be an advantage.
About us
Our mission is “working together passionately to achieve the best outcomes fin our specialised SEND and Alternative Provision settings”. Enable Trust is a specialist school and Alternative Provision (AP) Multi Academy Trust based in South Gloucestershire. We established in 2018, when our founding schools, Culverhill and New Siblands came together with a shared mission. Since then we’ve opened up Two Bridges Academy, and welcomed Pathways Learning Centre into the Trust, and we’re excited to be on track to be on a growth trajectory. Our children and young people are at the heart of everything we do.
What we can offer
- Be part of something meaningful, helping children and young people truly thrive
- Make a real difference every day in the lives of pupils with complex needs
- Join a warm, supportive team where people trust and look out for each other
- Work in a culture built on inclusion, respect and a shared sense of purpose
- Grow your career with strong support, development and opportunities to progress
- Feel valued in a workplace that cares about your wellbeing as much as your work
- Help shape a growing Trust where your contribution towards our mission of “achieving more together” genuinely matters.
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Join us in a role where your people expertise doesn't just support colleagues - it helps create the positive, inclusive and supportive culture that enables our staff and schools to thrive, ultimately making a difference to the children and young people we serve.
Interview date: 28th & 29th July 2026
Please note: Applications may be viewed on receipt and interviews arranged sooner than the above date.
Enable Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Suitability to work with children and young people will form part of the selection process. Short-listed applicants will be asked to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children and young people. We will carry out online searches on all short-listed applicants, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, Part 3, Safer Recruitment. Where given permission to do so, references will be requested for short-listed candidates prior to interview. Candidates attending an interview should expect the interview panel to explore issues relating to safeguarding. All successful applicants will be required to undergo security and vetting checks appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and an enhanced DBS check. Applicants must be aware that it is an offence to apply for a role if barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and young people.
We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
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