Juniper Education
Senior HR Consultant
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Welcome to Juniper Education
We’re more than just a support system; we're the driving force that propels schools and Academy Trusts to new heights. With our proven school education management systems and services, we address a spectrum of needs, ensuring excellence in education.
In the education and tech industry, your work directly influences the lives of students and educators. Whether you're developing cutting-edge educational technology, supporting school leadership teams directly or designing solutions to enhance the learning experience, you could make a lasting and positive impact on the future.
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- Empowerment: Equipping everyone with the tools, intelligence, connections, and freedom to make informed decisions, recognised and respected by all.
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Senior HR Consultant
We’re looking for a Senior HR Consultant to join our Education HR Services team at Juniper Education. This is a varied and influential role where you’ll provide expert HR advice across a portfolio of schools and academies, supporting leaders with complex casework while also helping to shape and develop the HR services we provide.
As a Senior HR Consultant, you will provide expert HR guidance and strategic support. This role involves:
- Managing case work including complex and high profile cases
- Creating/delivering training
- Leading on significant HR projects
- Ensuring compliance with employment law, education policy, and best practice.
- Acting as the primary point of contact for expert HR advice and guidance, ensuring stakeholders and colleagues receive timely, confident, and solutions-focused support on a wide range of people matters.
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You will act as the central point of expertise for casework, complex queries, and day-to-day HR support, providing guidance and mentoring to colleagues to ensure a consistent, high-quality service across all customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert HR advice to school and academy leaders, including guidance on complex and high-risk employee relations casework.
- Lead on specialist HR matters including pay, terms and conditions, employment contracts, policy, and employment law, ensuring advice reflects legislative requirements and best practice.
- Review, develop and maintain model HR policies, procedures, and guidance, ensuring customers have access to practical, legally compliant, and up-to-date resources.
- Consult and engage with external bodies and key stakeholders, including trade unions, local authorities, and other professional partners, representing Juniper and customer interests as appropriate.
- Design and deliver high-quality HR training, webinars, and briefings, keeping customers and colleagues informed of key legislative and sector developments.
- Manage key customer and stakeholder relationships, including engagement with senior leaders and attendance at strategic and consultative meetings.
- Lead and support HR audits, identifying areas of risk, compliance, and improvement and providing practical recommendations to customers.
- Provide expert guidance and support to HR colleagues, sharing technical knowledge and promoting a consistent, high-quality approach across the service.
- Contribute to the development of HR services, resources, and projects, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and greater efficiency.
- Build strong, trusted customer relationships and identify opportunities to promote services and support the continued growth of the HR service.
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About You
We’re looking for someone who combines strong technical HR knowledge with excellent consultancy and relationship-building skills.
You’ll ideally have:
- Significant experience working in education HR, with strong experience of complex employee relations casework.
- In-depth knowledge of employment law and education-specific HR practices.
- Experience advising on complex, high-risk, or high-profile employee relations matters.
- Experience creating and delivering HR training to a range of audiences.
- Experience undertaking HR audits and identifying areas of risk and improvement.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and negotiation skills.
- Experience drafting and reviewing HR policies, contracts, and guidance.
- Experience working with or within local authorities, academies, or multi-academy trusts.
- An understanding of education pension schemes, including LGPS and Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS).
- CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent relevant experience (or working towards this).
Interview Process
- 1st stage Interview and assessment (provided to you on the day)
- 2nd stage telephone call with Head of Service
We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at recruitment@junipereducation.org.
Juniper Education Benefits
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement
- Opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Entitlement to carry over leave to the next entitlement year
- Day 1 access to 24/7 GP & prescription services
- Day 1 access to rewards platform
- Cycle to work scheme
- Company Sick Pay on completion of probation
- Enhanced maternity & adoption pay
- Day 1 access to employee assistance platform
- Funded development/Qualification opportunities
- Voluntary health care cash plan
- Voluntary private medical insurance
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Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
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