HR Assistant

HR Assistant – Secondary School
North West London
Full-time | June 30th, 2025 Start | 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM, Monday to Friday

Zest Education is working in partnership with a high-performing secondary school in North West London to recruit an HR Assistant to join their central administrative team. This is a full-time position starting on Monday, June 30th, 2025.

The Role:

This is a fantastic opportunity for a HR professional or a highly competent administrator with HR exposure to take on a broad, generalist role within a busy school environment. You will be supporting the HR department with day-to-day operations, ensuring an efficient and responsive HR service across the school.

You will play a key role in staff recruitment, maintaining accurate records, supporting staff absence processes, and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and school policies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee and support daily HR operations in line with school policies

• Manage and maintain up-to-date employee records and HR databases

• Assist with end-to-end recruitment processes, including advertising roles, arranging interviews, and onboarding

• Monitor and log staff absences and support the School Workforce Census process

• Provide first-line support for HR queries from staff

• Ensure right to work documentation and UKBA compliance is fully up to date

• Support the wider admin team with general duties as required

• Maintain a professional and proactive approach, promoting a positive and supportive environment

About You:

We are looking for a confident, efficient and proactive individual who is able to work autonomously and as part of a team. You must be able to manage a busy workload with a high level of accuracy and discretion.

You will need:

• Strong administrative experience, ideally within an HR or education setting

• Excellent attention to detail and organisation skills

• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks under pressure

• Professionalism, discretion, and strong interpersonal skills

• Working knowledge of HR processes and relevant compliance would be highly beneficial

• Experience handling confidential data in line with GDPR and safeguarding requirements

If you are interested in this position or want to find out more, email Reggie at reggie@zesteducation.co.uk or ‘apply for job’ at the top of the page to submit your details.

Zest Education are an APSCo audited agency and are dedicated to safeguarding children. All candidates must hold an enhanced DBS (or allow us to process one for you) and be registered to the DBS Update Service, be able to provide references to cover the last two years and successfully pass all other necessary safeguarding checks prior to clearance for work.

Salary is dependent on experience, training, or qualifications. The minimum experience, training, or qualifications required for this position are recent school-based experience (within the last 5 years within a school that teaches the British Curriculum) and/or care-based experience within the last 5 years.

The role advertised is for temporary supply work.

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