The aim of the People Directorate is to have a positive impact on Trust leadership, teaching and learning at academies. We provide specialist 'HR' advice and support, ensuring sufficient expertise at the centre to manage the challenges of a single employer (GAT) operating across multiple regions, ensuring a balance of preventative and responsive actions to supporting our academies to achieve continuous improvement.
The key aspects of the service are:
Recruitment and Retention
- Developing a Trust Brand
- Negotiate media avenue and costs (discounted rates)
- Job design
- Obtaining work permits and renewals
- Submit bids for training placements (ITT/SD/NQT)
- Design and run assessment centres
- Attendance at interviews
- Completion of background checks
- Offers of employment and issuing employment contract (single employer)
- Obtain DBS; provide advice and guidance or managing disclosures
- Equalities monitoring
Payroll and Pensions
- Monthly Payroll includes, timesheets, all external payments
- Salary reviews/ benchmarking
- Teachers Pay Appeal advice
- Implementation of National T&Cs
- Conformation of salary to all employees (annual)
- Pension Annual Returns (TPS & LGPS)
- Pension administration
- Auto and re-enrolment
- Pension estimates
- Retirements
- SWFC
Core HR
- Safeguarding - provision of SCR framework and administration of Central Team SCR and Trust Board; provide support and guidance on non-employee categories; attendance at strategy meetings; manage DBS/NCTL disclosures and referrals, including attendance at hearings; managing allegations of staff; support/attendance at Ofsted/HMI inspections
- Contractual variations
- Investigations
- Capability
- Disciplinary
- Suspension/reintegration
- Grievance
- Mediation
- Dismissals and appeals
- Family Friendly – maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave, flexible working
- Attendance management, monitoring and tracking
- Sickness Absence – support with return to work interviews
- Occupational health referrals
- Advice and guidance on managing and supporting equality, diversity and inclusion
- Ill health retirement
- Off-boarding
- Application and interpretation of multiple terms and conditioners
- Preparation for and attendance at tribunals
Learning and Development
- Safer Recruitment Training
- Provision of core offer of CPD
- ECTs
- Developing teachers
- Middle leaders
- People Management Skills courses eg: managing within the law; absence; recruitment and selection; PDR; performance management; time management; grievance; disciplinary; communication skills; presentation skills
- Mentoring and coaching
- Induction framework
- Research and source training providers
- Manage the relationships between ITT/Apprenticeship providers and trainees/apprentices; tracking of trainee/apprentices progress and submission of statutory paperwork