Employee Relations Specialist

Teaching Vacancies; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements

Free on-site parking

Job summary

Dixons Academies Trust in Bradford is seeking two Employee Relations Specialists to join our HR team and support our multi-academy trust group. You will manage a varied ER caseload, providing pragmatic advice and building trusted relationships with leaders and unions.

We offer hybrid working arrangements and a range of staff benefits, with safeguarding commitments across our schools in the North.

Qualifications

• Sound professional judgement
• Solutions-focused approach
• Autonomy and proactive problem solving

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of a varied and complex ER caseload
• Provide confident, pragmatic and solutions-focused advice
• Build trusted relationships with leaders, colleagues and trade unions
• Exercise sound judgement and effectively manage risk
• Remain calm, organised and responsive under pressure
• Use insight and feedback to improve our HR service

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

Full details of this role can be found in the job description and person specification.

Interviews will take place on 23 November 2026.

Please visit our careers site for more information about our trust, our roles and our benefits or call us on 01274 085526 and speak to Angela Skinner, Business Support Administrator, HR, to discuss the role further.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, recruiting a diverse workforce, and creating an inclusive environment for everyone at Dixons. Therefore, we encourage applications from underrepresented communities and irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergent status, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender reassignment, sex, or sexual orientation. We are happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible through the recruitment process should this be required.

We are focussed on delivering an ambitious equality, diversity and inclusion strategy. You can read more about this here.

Our trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

What the school offers its staff

We are seeking to appoint 2 exceptional Employee Relations Specialists to join our multi-academy trust (MAT) and support our Business Services team through the next phase of growth in Leeds, Bradford, Greater Manchester and Liverpool.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our HR team and make a meaningful difference across our trust. You will work closely with academy and trust leaders, providing pragmatic advice and confidently managing a varied employee relations caseload.

We are looking for someone who combines sound professional judgement with a positive, solutions-focused approach. You will have the autonomy to take ownership of cases, influence decisions and help us continuously improve the support we provide.

The ideal candidate will:

• Take ownership of a varied and complex ER caseload
• Provide confident, pragmatic and solutions-focused advice
• Build trusted relationships with leaders, colleagues and trade unions
• Exercise sound judgement and effectively manage risk
• Remain calm, organised and responsive under pressure
• Use insight and feedback to improve our HR service

Why choose Dixons Academies Trust?

Our mission is to challenge educational and social disadvantage in the North. As a school trust, we are committed to making a difference where it matters most through delivering exceptional education in our schools in Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool and Greater Manchester, which include primaries, secondaries, all-throughs and a standalone sixth form.

• We are values driven: we work hard on the things that matter, with humility; we are good and kind; we are motivated by mastery, autonomy and purpose.
• We have been challenging educational and social disadvantage for over 30 years.
• We have launched a bold flexible working policy to give our teachers more time back.
• We are ambitious for every child and highly inclusive.
• We have an innovative approach to central operations which allows educators to focus on teaching and learning.
• We prioritise the professional development and growth of all our staff; every member of Team Dixons receives regular coaching.
• We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and our staff work collaboratively to share resources and reduce workload.
• We offer hybrid working arrangements and free on-site parking.
• We have a wealth of benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (private health, lifestyle benefits and discounts).

Within our communities, we work together to establish joyful, rigorous, high performing schools which maximise attainment, value diversity, develop character and build cultural capital. By the age of 18, we want every students to have the choice of university or a high-quality apprenticeship.

Visit our OpenSource Youtube channel to learn more about our approaches and culture.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.