HR Officer
(Fixed Term – 12 Months)
East Park is… Recruiting
East Park, a Grant Aided Special School in Glasgow, is a leading provider of specialist day and residential education services for children with complex needs, including Autism.
Position overview
East Park has provided Education and Supported Accommodation services to children and young people with additional support needs, including autism, since 1874. Our philosophy reflects current legislation, best practice and a commitment to excellence.
Applications are invited from enthusiastic and well-motivated individuals to cover a fixed term post which will commence in July 2025 and is for the purpose of covering the HR Officer.
Benefits
- Hours – 0800-1600, Monday to Friday (37.5 hours per week)
- Competitive salary
- Wellbeing offerings
- Healthcare Cash Plan
Key Responsibilities:
- Effective maintenance of HR systems; add new starts and remove leavers, maintain users of the system, maintain all staff information including equal opportunities and personal details, create reports and maintain current list of reports.
- Provide HR support to line managers and colleagues, based on a thorough knowledge of the work undertaken by the team in line with the organisations policies and procedures and employment law
- Advise managers on HR process and procedure
- Assist with HR related projects such as further increasing employee engagement and reducing turnover
- Assist managers throughout employee relations cases ensuring a best practice approach is followed
- Minute taking at employee relations meetings whilst advising on HR policy as required
- Administer HR paperwork, such as starters/leavers, recruitment, contracts, letters etc
- Assist in coordination and delivery of the HR Induction for new starts
- Maintain the HR staff files and archive leavers
- Assist with recruitment including management of systems, advertising vacancies and organising interviews
- Progress the absence management process; reviewing absence stats & arranging absence meetings, long absence reviews and recording return to work documents, sending reminders as required.
- Ensure PVG processing of new starts
- Processing and advising on all stages of the employee life cycle
The Small Print
Please note CVs will not be accepted as part of your application.
East Park is an Equal Opportunities Employer, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion is valued and everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
A copy of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policy is available on request.
A Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Enhanced Disclosure is required for all East Park posts.
If you have an additional communication support need and would like to request an application form, job description or any other information in audio format, large print or with easy read formatting tailored to your needs please e-mail recruitment@eastpark.org.uk and we would be happy to help.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Click here to download a copy of the Job Description.
ONLINE APPLICATION FORM
You can download an application form here. Please ‘Save As’ the completed form to your device then e-mail it to recruitment@eastpark.org.uk.
If you are working on a mobile device or tablet, please click here for our online application form.
Please note that you cannot save the online version of the application form and return to finish it later.
APPLICATION GUIDANCE
Guidance on what information we require on our application forms can be downloaded here.
CLOSING DATE
Friday 6th June 2025 at 12noon
FURTHER INFORMATION
Lisa Howitt, Business and IT Support Officer
Mhairi Boyle, HR Officer
Tel: 0141 946 2050