Overview
Job Title: HR Administrator/Advisor (Fixed Term)
Salary: Commencing at £26,429 with progression to £27,981 per annum
Closing Date: 2025-09-14
About the Role
This role is a 12-month contract.
Luminate Education Group are recruiting for an HR Administrator/Advisor to join our HR Shared Service team. This is a fantastic opportunity for experienced Administrator to work alongside us to drive the HR service offering to our customers. We are a friendly and supportive team, with a passion to deliver an outstanding service to all our stakeholders across the group.
As an HR Administrator/Advisor, you would be supporting the stakeholders within your hub at all points of the employee lifecycle, including pre-employment checks, onboarding, staff changes, maternity leave, and payroll.
The successful candidate will already have a good grounding in HR administration. Equally important is a positive approach to customer service, an ability to manage a busy workload and attention to detail. If you are a committed individual looking for an exciting challenge in the education sector, we would love to hear from you.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early depending on the level of interest and number of applications, so early application is advised.
If you would like the opportunity to discuss the role informally, please contact Michelle Crookston, Senior HR Business Partner at Michelle.Crookston@luminate.ac.uk
What You Will Do
- First line of contact for your hub HR queries.
- Working collaboratively within the team and across the group to ensure the service supports managers, employees and key stakeholders.
- Providing high quality administrative support on HR matters.
- Maintaining accurate HR records.
- Producing reports, data and support (including note taking) for Employee Relations cases and other HR activities.
- Completing pre-employment compliance checks for new starters.
- Ensuring that all changes are communicated to payroll in line with payroll deadlines.
About You
- Previous experience of working in a varied HR role.
- Knowledge of a broad range of HR systems and processes.
- Able to provide good customer support.
- Able to prioritise work with competing demands and deadlines.
- A competent user of Microsoft Office Packages, including Word and Excel, and experience of using HR systems.
Benefits
The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays
Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme
CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.
Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.
About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions – Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. It’s not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone’s contributions and perspectives.
RECRUITMENT AGENCIES
We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward any unsolicited CVs in relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.
- We do not recognise submissions of unsolicited or speculative CV applications from recruitment agencies.
- We shall not be liable for any fee / commission in the event we employ a candidate that may have been submitted as an unsolicited/speculative application from an uninstructed recruitment agency.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
