Trust HR Service Team

PLT provides academies with an in-house HR advisor who will work to identify and plan strategic HR needs, and will provide pragmatic solutions and options to swiftly bring to a successful conclusion HR issues.  Integral to the service is to deal with HR contractual administration requirements, ensuring all contractual matters are processed, handled and maintained in a professional and secure manner.

The HR Team ensures:

• Strategic HR lead coordinating Trust wide HR to ensure compliance with policies and practice and the avoidance of time consuming and challenging HR issues
• Development of all Trust wide HR policies, ensuring they are kept up to date with any changes in legislation
• Provision of, and training on, a Trust HR database to support effective HR administration throughout the trust
• Complex casework, investigations e.g. grievance and disciplinary
• Union consultation
• In-house training and briefing sessions on relevant HR topics and legislation
• Provision of HR administrative support to academies to include:
  • Recruitment and retention
  • Personnel information management
  • Liaison with payroll services
  • Support for single central record and safeguarding administration
  • Processing of all contractual appointments, terminations and variations