School HR Assistant
| Posting date: | 18 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £15.0 to £16.0 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | 15 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 March 2026 |
| Location: | Birmingham, West Midlands, b3 2sl |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 4772136_1771412856 |
Summary
School HR Administrator
Based in Walsall
£15 - £16ph
Maternity Cover
Your new company
A School within a large trust of schools, is looking to appoint an interim HR Assistant to support they HR Team. The role is a long term maternity contract. The cover is Monday to Friday, term time only, 8am - 4pm. The role is to start as soon as possible.
Your new role The role will entail supporting a busy HR team, which will entail:
- Coordinate and administer the staff recruitment process.
- Coordinate and administer DBS checks for all staff and volunteers in line with the School's Safeguarding Policy.
- Administer and maintain the Single Central Record.
- Maintain and update accurate personnel records for staff.
- Coordinate and administer absence management, recording and coding absence, identifying triggers, organising Occupational Health referrals, providing reports for line managers/Leadership Team.
- Coordinate sickness absence review meetings and absence improvement plans and to draft and provide review meeting outcome letters to staff.
- Responsible for the on-going maintenance of payroll information in the online portal.
- Responsible for creation, input and checking of monthly payroll transactions in accordance with the agreed timetable, and coordinate and administer staff pay increments annually.
- Completing the School Workforce Census.
What you'll need to succeed
You will need to have HR experience in the above ideally in a school and be able to work quickly under your initiative. You will also have recent satisfactory references for carrying out a similar placement within the last 2 years. You will also need to have a clear DBS check.
What you'll get in return
Hays Education has had an established Support Service desk in Birmingham for over ten years, providing quality non classroom based staff into schools. We also provide free Child Protection and Safeguarding Training to any candidate who is registered and working for us as part of their CPD.
What you need to do now
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