RBET Norfolk vacancy template

HR Assistant

Red Balloon Educational Trust Norfolk

Location: 76 Earlham Road, Norwich

Hours: 24 hours per week (0.6FTE)

Salary: £21,000 to £24,000 (pro rata) depending on experience

Start Date: 4th Janurary 2024

Please note that there are two Red Balloon Centres operating in Norfolk: this position is for the Centre RBET-Norfolk, located on Earlham Road.

Role:

Red Balloon is an award-winning charity that operates a leading-edge virtual learner centre. We offer academic, wellbeing and community support to transform the lives of students (aged 9-18 years) who want to learn but have had low rates of attendance at school due to high anxiety, severe bullying, trauma or chronic stress.

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic HR Assistant to join our team. This role would suit someone who is currently in an HR Assistant role or an experienced HR Administrator who is looking to develop their skills. Red Balloon is a flexible and rewarding place to work and its office is situated in Milton, Cambridge. TOIL will be available with the option to take during the school holidays.

You will closely with the Director of Education and our Head of Centres. In particular you will support the Head of RB Air which currently employs over 50% of our total headcount. Our ambition is to continue our growth agenda which will create further opportunities for the right candidate.

Some key responsibilities of this role include:

Take a leading role in all recruitment and selection and its administration including creating and managing adverts. Ensuring that all recruitment is conducted in line with safer recruitment practices and is transparent and fair.
Arrange interviews with candidates, including room bookings and invites.
Taking part in the interview panel when necessary.
Assist in the management of all aspects of employment including appraisal, wellbeing and conduct.
Conduct the onboarding process for new starters such as collation of all necessary ID documents and pre-employment documents (i.e. medical, data protection, qualification certificates, teachers on barred list).
Manage and maintain the HRIS
Ensure staff files are accurate and up to date.

To be considered for this role you will need to have:

Level 3 CIPD qualified or working towards this
2 years+ experience working in an HR role
Good understanding HR law and legislation;
Excellent IT skills

You can view a full job description and person specification below.

How to Apply

In line with safer recruitment practices, we are only able to accept applications via our application forms, which can be accessed by following the application link above. You can save your application at any point and come back to it at a later stage.

For more details about our recruitment and interview process, please see our recruitment pack which can be downloaded via the link above.

If you would like to apply for this role, though require a different format of application, such as large print or the opportunity to submit a video application or an application via an alternative method, please contact HR and Operations Lead via email brooke.hornby@rbet.ac or telephone 07878 837 902 and we would be happy to arrange an alternative application method.

Please note:

There are currently two Red Balloon Centres operating in Norfolk:

Red Balloon Educational Trust Norfolk (RBET – Norfolk) is relaunching our Earlham Road site as a new Centre, which will open in Autumn 2023 to help meet some of the demand in the area. The vacancy above is for the RBET – Norfolk Centre.

Red Balloon Norwich, which opened in 2006, moved location in 2022 and is currently located on Drayton Road. Red Balloon Norwich will not be able to answer any questions about the vacancy above as it is not for their Centre.

Closing date

Deadline for application forms is 07/12/2023
Interviews will be held in the week of 14/12/2023
All applicants will be contacted to advise if they have been shortlisted for an interview

Red Balloon is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires the successful candidate to commit to this. The person appointed will be subjected to an enhanced DBS check.

Red Balloon is an equal opportunities employer. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, marital status.