Services
Strategic HR for Schools
Comprehensive HR Strategies
As Academies grow and schools join, there is a need to take a strategic approach to school HR, streamlining processes, developing consistency of policies and practices, training business leads, developing management, effective workforce planning and building all the right paperwork and contracts. Strategic HR outsourcing can help institutions navigate these complexities efficiently and achieve your long-term goals.
Our strategic school HR services include everything in our full HR advisory and consultancy service, and also involve working closely with the central leadership team to examine the overarching strategy. Making sure your staff plans work in practice is crucial to the success of any organisation, from attracting and retaining top talent to developing, growing and achieving improved outcomes. We can support the development, assessment, implementation and monitoring. Our HR Consultancy can help you achieve your people strategy and support your growth and success.
When schools from different areas join, support staff often come with varying pay grades and different localised benefits. Our strategic HR service can provide project management and expert advice on the consistency of pay grades and creating pay structures to fit the academy’s trust needs, including consulting with trade unions, preparing proposals, and ensuring equality of pay across the trust.
Our HR Strategy
Support in developing your people strategy:
- Recruitment and Retention
- Professional Development
- DEI (Diversity, Equality & Inclusion)
- Talent Management
- Employee Engagement
- Reward
Our strategic HR solutions and strategic HR support include but are not limited to:
- Creating role profiles across the workforce to determine the consistency of job roles and equality of grades.
- Creating profiles for Upper Pay Range roles and trust-wide processes for consistency across the trust.
- Senior leadership pay reviews (CEO, DCEO, CFO & COO) advice and benchmarking reports for trust board reviews.
- Whole trust policy reviews to bring consistency across the trust, including employment contracts and documentation to support processes.
- Training for business leads on processes.
Reviews
Reviews
What Our Clients Say
Go and check through our reviews and hear what people have to say about Advanced HR and our expert, customer-friendly services.
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As a Principal, I cannot express enough gratitude for the outstanding guidance I received from Advanced HR during a grievance brought against my school – which escalated into an emotionally draining tribunal hearing.
Mrs D. Secker
Principal, Richmond Hill Primary School
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Over the course of 4 years, Advanced HR has consistently demonstrated unparalleled commitment and expertise, proving to be an invaluable partner in navigating the various day-to-day and ongoing challenges that we face within the school.
Alex Steadman
Headteacher, Carlton Primary School
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Our experience with Advanced HR has been nothing short of outstanding, with the whole team proving invaluable to our family of primary schools. They are always professional, very knowledgeable, highly efficient, and show a genuine commitment to our school’s success by setting the standard for HR provision across our federation.
Kerry Gagen
Business Manager - St Helen’s and St Michael & All Angel Catholic Primaries
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Advanced HR has worked with our Trust for several years and has consistently been a personable and professional team that is knowledgeable and experienced in the educational sector.
David Silvester
CEO - James Montgomery Academy Trust
