HR Business Partner

We are looking for an experienced HR professional to join our central HR and Payroll team as a HR Business Partner to provide a timely and professional HR service to a dedicated group of our schools and support project delivery as part of the RLT People Strategy. .

The role will be working in our well established and friendly HR team alongside our HR Director, Senior HR Business Partner, 2 existing experienced HR Business Partners and 2 HR Officers (and the lovely payroll team!). This role will report into the Senior HR Business Partner.

You will work in partnership with schools in Oxfordshire across our Trust (including primary and secondary schools) to support them with a range of people matters and timely strategic advice, you will also have trust wide objectives that may be adapted over time depending on your area of particular interest.  This is a busy, varied role where you will be working in our culture of continuous improvement and will have a real opportunity to make a difference to our schools and their communities.

If you have previous experience as an education focused HR professional and would like to work with an amazing team, we would love to hear from you. Extra credit for: A good sense of humour, a love for dogs, and a high appreciation for cake and frequent team buffets.

Please see the link for more information and the job description

This is a hybrid role with 1 day per week (Tuesday) spent at our central team office working alongside the HR and payroll team; and the remainder of your working time spent visiting schools for case work meetings or working from home.

Hours of work: * FLEXIBLE* Full time and part time options are available for this role including term-time + working or all year round (52 weeks).  We are looking for a minimum of 4 full days per week that must include a Tuesday or 30 hours across the week

£46,142 - £49,283 Annually (FTE)
*2026 Pay Award Pending

What we can offer

Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.

OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive  continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our ““Working in RLT” guide.