HR Business Partner

OneSchool Global; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff laptop

Free breakfast

Free lunches

On-site parking

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Staff referral scheme

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

OneSchool Global UK is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to join our People & Culture team across campuses, partnering with Principals and leadership teams to provide trusted HR support and coaching, shaping positive workplace cultures.

The role balances operational employee relations with strategic initiatives, leadership coaching, organisational change and continuous improvement projects, with travel across the campus network and a hybrid work pattern.

Qualifications

• Proven HRBP or senior HR Advisor experience.
• Strong employee relations knowledge.
• Experience supporting multiple sites, regions or locations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Commercial mindset and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert HR support to campus leaders across the region.
• Coaching leaders to strengthen people management capability.
• Lead organisational change and transformation projects.
• Drive employee engagement, retention and wellbeing initiatives.
• Partner with Principals and campus leadership teams.

Skills

HRBP experience

Employee relations

Stakeholder management

Leadership coaching

Commercially minded

Resilience

Travel-friendly

Education

CIPD Level 5 qualification

Job description

We're looking for an experienced and proactive HR Business Partner to join our People & Culture team at an exciting time of growth and development. At OneSchool Global UK, we believe strong relationships are at the heart of a successful organisation. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with Principals and leadership teams, providing trusted HR support and guidance and coaching while helping to shape positive workplace cultures across our campuses. We're looking for someone who enjoys building relationships, supporting leaders to achieve their goals and finding practical solutions to people challenges. In return, you'll join a collaborative and supportive team where your expertise will be valued, your ideas welcomed and your impact genuinely felt. If you're passionate about people, enjoy working in partnership with leaders and want to make a meaningful contribution across a growing organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

About The Role

Partnering with Principals and campus leadership teams across your region, you'll provide expert HR support and guidance across a broad range of people matters. This is a varied and highly visible role where you'll balance operational employee relations support with strategic initiatives, leadership coaching, organisational change and continuous improvement projects. You'll become a trusted advisor to leaders helping them create high-performing teams and positive workplace cultures while ensuring people decisions align with organisational objectives.

Location & Travel

This is a hybrid role with regular travel across your designated campus portfolio.

• 2-3 days per week visiting campuses
• 1 day per week based at our Regional Support Office in Coventry
• Remaining time working remotely

You’ll support campuses across:

• Oswestry
• Northampton
• Scotland (2 campuses)
• Northern Ireland (2 campuses)

Travel is an essential and rewarding part of the role allowing you to build meaningful relationships understand local challenges and provide visible support to leaders and teams across the region.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partnering with Principals and leaders across multiple campuses
• Managing a varied caseload of employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, absence and performance-related cases
• Coaching and developing leaders to strengthen people management capability
• Supporting organisational change, restructures and transformation projects
• Driving employee engagement, retention and wellbeing initiatives
• Challenging constructively and influencing decision-making at all levels
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, practices and ways of working
• Building strong stakeholder relationships through regular campus visits
• Supporting leadership teams to create high-performing and engaged teams
• Contributing to wider People & Culture projects and strategic initiatives

What We’re Looking For

We're looking for an HR professional who combines strong technical expertise with exceptional relationship-building skills. You'll be confident proactive and capable of operating independently across a geographically dispersed region.

You’ll bring

• Proven HR Business Partner or Senior HR Advisor experience
• Strong employee relations knowledge and experience
• Experience supporting multiple sites, regions or locations
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
• The confidence to challenge appropriately and drive positive outcomes
• A solutions-focused and commercially minded approach
• Resilience adaptability and strong organisational skills
• A passion for continuous improvement and positive change
• CIPD Level 5 qualification (or equivalent experience)

Most importantly, you'll be someone who enjoys being out in the business building relationships and making a genuine difference.

Why you’ll love working with us

At OneSchool Global, we’re committed to helping our educators grow succeed and reach their full potential. As part of our team you’ll benefit from:

• A competitive salary, staff laptop, free breakfast and lunches and on-site free parking
• 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays
• Workplace pension and Staff referral scheme for OSG UK colleagues.
• Collaborate with fellow OSG educators across the UK and around the world.
• High-quality, technology-empowered working environments.
• Strong career advancement opportunities.

About OSG

OneSchool Global is one of the world’s largest truly global schools with over 8000 students 120+ campuses and 2000 staff operating across 20 countries. Our innovative approach to education emphasises self-directed learning where students take initiative and responsibility for their learning journey. In the UK we have 23 campuses spanning across England Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Our values: Our values

OneSchool Global UK is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All appointments follow safer recruitment practices including pre-employment checks such as enhanced criminal record and barred list checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance and equivalent frameworks across the UK Additional checks will include verification of identity qualifications employment history right to work references and online screening.

OneSchool Global UK is an equal opportunities employer welcoming all suitably qualified candidates and fostering a culture where safeguarding is embedded at every level All staff receive regular safeguarding training and our policies reflect current UK legislation and statutory guidance.