Anthem – Who Are We?

Anthem is an education charity that runs a group of state-funded primary and secondary schools to give children a better future. Anthem started out in 2011 with just three schools, and now serves over 8,000 children and young people across the East Midlands, London and Thames Valley. Our vision is that by working together, we will create ambitious and successful schools in which every child thrives.

Our schools work in collaboration as one entity to improve and maintain high educational standards, experiences, and outcomes across the Trust. Anthem schools are diverse and serve many different communities. They are all united by a shared ambition for children and young people, which is underpinned by a commitment to integrity, collaboration, and excellence. These shared values provide a frame of reference for how we relate to one another, and for what is common between our schools and our people. They are brought to life through schools’ own identities and approaches, creating thriving local schools that meet their communities’ needs.

Our National Team

The National Team is a dynamic multi-disciplinary group of professionals who deliver a wide range of services to support Anthem’s core purpose of creating ambitious and successful schools in which every child thrives.

The National Team’s skills and expertise are the driving force of Anthem’s operational and administrative functions such as governance and compliance, HR, finance, IT and estates, thus ensuring excellence across our schools.

About this role

HR Recruitment Administrator  (50% of role)

As HR administrator you will provide 1st line support throughout the first stage of the employee lifecycle. This portion of your role will be fully remote, working alongside our established HR team in delivering excellent service to all our schools. Your key responsibilities will include:

Recruitment

• Support with the delivery of recruitment across all Anthem schools
• Post job vacancies on our careers page, external job boards and social media
• Carry out initial application reviews and phone calls with potential candidates
• Process candidates through the recruitment system and schedule interviews
• Request and verify references
• Carry out safer recruitment checks ensuring compliance with key policies and procedures

On-boarding

• Support with preparation of documents required for on-boarding such as vetting, offer letters, contracts and payroll administration
• Verify right to work and all other required documentation
• Arrange new starter welcome kit and request equipment
• Co-ordinate induction plan with line manager
• Support with submission of employee references and on-boarding processes
• Providing support to the HR Team as cover and relief during peak periods

Governance Professional (50% of role)

As a Governance Professional you will work across the Trust’s governance community as clerk to several of Anthem’s Community Councils (ACCs, formerly local governing bodies).  This portion of your role will be hybrid, working alongside our established Governance team in delivering excellent clerking support to all our schools from home and also in person for key Governance meetings in schools.  The schools you will cover will be in the London and Thames Valley areas.  Please note that some of these meetings will be outside of normal working hours.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the ACCs with their recruitment and onboarding of new ACC members
• Arranging and attending termly ACC meetings. This will include arranging the relevant logistics and IT, as well as coordinating and disseminating all relevant documentation and recording all actions on our Dashboard and Support & Challenge Log
• Co-ordinate all logistics and provide administrative support in person to Governor Disciplinary Panels, taking full minutes and drafting correspondence
• Work as part of the Governance team to support in creating and updating Anthem local governance templates, systems and processes for use across Anthem where identified
• Understand and support fully Anthems Governance Strategy and support ACCms in their roles, using the wider Governance Team for guidance
• Fulfil other reasonable duties as directed by Anthem National Team, ACC Chair or Headteacher

Both roles will require:

• Working with multiple stakeholders
• Updating records and tracking documents
• Working within Trust templates, systems and processes
• Upholding compliance procedures and statutory requirements pertinent to the areas of work
• Keep up to date with current educational developments and legislation affecting school local governance and HR

These duties and responsibilities should be regarded as neither exhaustive nor exclusive as the post holder may be required to undertake other reasonably determined duties and responsibilities commensurate with the grading of the post.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.

Anthem will undertake a basic online check for all shortlisted candidates.