HR and Safeguarding Officer

Salary: £27,164 per annum (plus £2,339 London weighting, if applicable, totalling £29,503).

Location: This role is within the Action Tutoring Operations team which is mainly based in London. We are open to remote working from elsewhere in England for the right candidate. Our London office address is: 8-10, Fivefields, Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0DH.

Deadline: Sunday, 23rd November 2025

Interviews: Thursday, 4th December 2025

Start date: Ideally as soon as possible

Contract and hours: Fixed term contract until 21st August 2026. Full time. We offer flexible hours with 9.30-4 as core hours. A full working week is 37.5 hours.

About the opportunity

This role plays a key part in supporting the wider Action Tutoring team with HR and Safeguarding matters and sits within the Finance, HR and Operations Department, reporting to the Head of People and Culture.

Duties and responsibilities

Safer recruitment for staff and volunteer tutors

Responsible for ensuring staff and volunteer tutor safer recruitment records and related checks are up date and complete.
Collecting references and ensuring they meet our standard requirements.
Conducting ID calls for volunteer tutor DBS checks.
Processing DBS checks and DBS update service checks.

Safeguarding

Undertaking an initial triage of safeguarding concerns and incidents raised by members of the team and referring to senior staff as necessary.
Maintaining and overseeing the tutor safeguarding refresher training using a dashboard
Compiling safeguarding data into termly reports for the team and board.

Supporting the Head of People and Culture with recruitment processes. This will include preparing paperwork relating to the selection process and offers of employment and following up with applicants and the hiring manager to ensure both sides have a quality hiring experience.

A full list of duties and responsibilities can be found in the job description attached to the BreatheHR advert.

Person specification, qualification criteria:

Experience in safer recruitment practice and working within relevant procedures and guidelines.
Experience in HR administration.
Right to work in the UK.

We are looking for some of the following attributes, though you might be more experienced in some areas than others:

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong IT skills (ideally knowledge of G-suite).
Ability to work with and communicate effectively with people from all backgrounds and cultures.
Able to manage a busy and varied workload, highly-organised and able to work well under pressure and to manage competing deadlines.
Able to take initiative and work independently.
Strong attention to detail.
Trustworthy, with strong integrity.
Committed to ensuring young people from all backgrounds reach a meaningful level of academic attainment.
Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children.

Benefits

Hybrid working – We offer a flexible combination of office and home based working.
Holiday – 25 days holiday a year (plus UK public holidays), increasing by a day for each complete year of service (up to five extra days). 3 additional days between Christmas and New Year.
Flexitime and TOIL – We have a flexible policy for working hours, and offer TOIL where staff have to work particularly early in the day or late in the evening, so that they can reclaim those hours at another time.
Team away days – The whole team across the UK gets together three times a year.
Pensions – We have a workplace pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution.
Sabbatical leave – We offer paid and unpaid sabbatical leaves to our long standing colleagues.
Culture of celebrating – Regular thanks and praise and monthly recognition of ’heroes’ to celebrate employees going above and beyond.
Knowledge-sharing – Lots of opportunities to learn from others in the organisation, including policy briefings, shadowing colleagues and peer-to-peer development.
Socials – Team socials around team days, regular bring-and-share team lunches and other activities.
Proofreading Team – As well as checking the accuracy of all content Action Tutoring shares with external audiences, our proofreading team supports individuals who would value an extra pair of eyes on their writing.
Ad hoc projects – Interested in other exciting topics relevant to our charity? Then join one of our working groups (including policy, diversity and inclusion, curriculum and training, socials, data and insights) and support with ongoing projects.