Recruitment and HR Compliance Coordinator

Salary: Up to £32,640

Permanent

Full time, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year

Start date: September 2025

Sir William Perkins’s School is looking to recruit a dedicated and personable HR professional with a flair for recruitment and a passion for high standards in compliance. As our Recruitment and HR Compliance Coordinator you will lead and manage the end-to-end recruitment process, support HR compliance, and help ensure that we continue to attract, onboard, and retain outstanding staff in line with our values of curiosity, ambition and generosity.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a high performing independent school that offers a supportive, inclusive, and forward thinking working environment.

 Key Responsibilities

• Lead the full recruitment cycle, liaising with department heads and candidates to ensure a professional and efficient process from advertising to onboarding.
• Build strong working relationships with hiring managers and applicants, ensuring a warm, responsive, and supportive candidate experience.
• Carry out all safer recruitment checks in line with KCSIE and ISI regulations, including vetting of staff, volunteers, and contractors.
• Maintain accurate employee records and manage the Single Central Register to the highest standards of integrity and accuracy.
• Maintain the HR Information System (HRIS), ensuring all employee data is entered accurately, kept up to date, and complies with relevant policies and data protection legislation.
• Keep up to date with changes in employment legislation, safeguarding guidance, and GDPR requirements to ensure continued compliance.
• Coordinate staff inductions and probation reviews, and support leavers processes in a timely and sensitive manner.
• Provide administrative support and management information reports to the HR Manager and wider leadership team as required.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Experience in a compliance-focused recruitment or HR administration role, ideally within a regulated or education setting.
• Excellent attention to detail and high standards of accuracy in managing sensitive data and documentation.
• The ability to build trusted relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, demonstrating warmth, professionalism, and discretion.
• A strong understanding of GDPR and safer recruitment practices, and a willingness to keep abreast of new legislation and best practice.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and confidence using HRIS or other database systems.
• A proactive and organised approach, with the ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.

How to apply: Please complete the online application form. We are unable to accept CVs.

Closing date for applications is: Sunday 17 August 2025 at 11:59pm

Interviews will be held: TBC, likely to be week beginning 18 August 2025.

Early applications are encouraged as the School reserves the right to interview and appoint before the closing date.

Note: We do not hold a sponsorship licence and are therefore unable to sponsor overseas applicants.

About us

Sir William Perkins’s School is a high-performing, academically selective, independent school for approximately 600 students aged 11 – 18 years. The Head is both a member of HMC and GSA. It is located on an attractive 12- acre site situated on the outskirts of Chertsey, a two-minute walk from the railway station and very near to the junction of the M3 and M25.