Kimbolton School - People Officer

Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Kimbolton School to recruit a People Officer to join our HR Team. We’re looking for a confident, practical People Officer to provide advice and support to managers across the School on a wide range of people matters.

Detail

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Kimbolton School to recruit a People Officer to join our HR Team.

We’re looking for a confident, practical People Officer to provide advice and support to managers across the School on a wide range of people matters, including employee relations, attendance, performance, recruitment and development.

This is a varied role where you’ll work closely with managers to solve problems, provide practical advice and support positive outcomes, while also helping us improve our approach to people management and the employee experience.

Working alongside the HR Manager and HR Recruitment & Onboarding Administrator, you’ll bring sound judgement, confidence and a solutions-focused approach to a busy and rewarding role.

Is it essential that the successful candidate has previous proven HR experience in a busy generalist HR role, with knowledge of employment law and its application. Experience of working in a school or educational environment and using iTrent is desirable, but not essential.

This is a full time, 37.5 hours per week, for 52 weeks position. Consideration may be given for applicants who would be interested to work 30 hours per week for 52 weeks.

Further details on this position and a full job description can be found in the attached application pack.

The safeguarding responsibilities of this role are clearly outlined in the application pack, and candidates are requested to make themselves aware of these requirements if considering an application.

Please note: we reserve the right to appoint to the post, prior to the closing date

We welcome direct applications from candidates. Recruitment agencies are kindly asked not to contact us.

Kimbolton School is committed to the highest standards of safeguarding and implements a rigorous and robust recruitment process that gathers and evaluates child protection relevant evidence about candidates prior to interview. All appointments are subject to satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check and proof of right to work in the UK. All applicants are requested to read the Safeguarding Policy document. Please note that Kimbolton School does not have a sponsored Licence to recruit non-UK workers and therefore all candidates are expected to be able to work in the UK.

Documents

• Safer Recruitment PDF Document
• Benefits Poster PDF Document
• Application Pack - People Officer (Oct 2026) PDF Document