Human Resources Assistant

Summary

We have a great opportunity for an energetic, dynamic and experienced administrator to support the HR Department with administration, recruitment, onboarding, employee relations enquiries and ongoing Department for Education and Independent Schools’ Inspectorate compliance.

Detail

Permanent | 37.5 hours per week | All-year Round (52 weeks per year) £25-28k per annum (depending on skills, knowledge and experience)

Felsted is a leading day and boarding independent school based in a stunning village campus in North Essex. Founded in 1564 by Richard Lord Riche, who had been a Lord Chancellor under King Edward VI, Felsted today provides an exceptional holistic education to approximately 1000 boys and girls aged three to eighteen. We celebrated our 450th anniversary in 2014, one of only a handful of schools in the country that have claimed this historic milestone. We employ more than 600 staff in a community orientated environment, ensuring our pupils receive the very best in learning and co-curricular activities.

We have a great opportunity for an energetic, dynamic and experienced administrator to support the HR Department with administration, recruitment, onboarding, employee relations enquiries and ongoing Department for Education and Independent Schools’ Inspectorate compliance.

A professional, proactive, positive and flexible approach is vital in this fast paced and hard-working environment. Due diligence, versatility, resilience, attention to detail, confidentiality and the ability to keep pace with extensive compliance checks is essential in this role.

This role is a permanent position working 37.5 hours per week, all-year round (52 weeks per year). We are able to offer some flexibility with working patterns, whilst ensuring key business needs are met.

Further information about the role can be found within the job description on our website. If you have any questions prior to your application, please contact Rhian Viney, Head of HR (hrmanager@felsted.org).

Benefits include free life assurance; contributory pension scheme (matched at 4%); membership availability to the School’s healthcare scheme (via BUPA); free lunch and parking; annual salary reviews; free use of the Felsted Gym and pool facilities and membership to Felsted Connect; an online multi-platform engagement tool where employees have access to hundreds of exclusive discounts and offers from online and high-street retailers. More information on our rewards package can be found on our website felsted.org/employment-opps/rewards.

Closing date for receipt of applications is Wednesday 9 September at 9am. Interviews will be held shortly after the closing date.

If you would like to apply for this position, please visit our website www.felsted.org/employment-opps to complete our online application process.

Felsted is committed to equal opportunities and maintaining a safe and secure environment for all pupils and a ‘culture of vigilance’ to safeguard and protect all in its care, and to all aspects of its ‘Safeguarding (Child Protection and Staff Behaviour) Policy’. Please note, it is an offence to apply for this position if barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All employees are subject to pre-employment checks including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Documents

• HR Assistant - September 2026 PDF Document