People Systems & Recruitment Officer
LORD
WANDSWORTH
COLLEGE
Lord Wandsworth College
People Systems & Recruitment Officer
Candidate Pack
Role Profile
Department:
People/HR
Responsible to:
People Partner
Location:
Lord Wandsworth College
Contract:
Full time, 8am-4pm Mon to Fri, 52 weeks per year
Salary:
circa £32,500 per annum
Benefits
We offer a vast range of staff benefits including:
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank holidays (pro rata for part time staff)
• Contributory pension scheme
• Fee remission for children
• State of the art, restaurant quality hot and cold food available
• Death in service scheme - 4 times your annual salary
• Friends and Family referral scheme (£250 for each referral)
• Give as you earn and staff volunteering day
Use of wide-ranging school facilities - swimming pool, tennis, walks, trails etc
Excellent social and sporting events for staff within the school
Enhanced family friendly policies including support for emergency time off for dependants
Role outline and purpose
The People Systems & Recruitment Officer plays a key role in delivering an efficient, responsive and people focused HR/People service across LWC Group. The role combines responsibility for HR systems (MHR iTrent) and advisor on operational processes with recruitment delivery. The postholder will act as a key point of contact for HR/People systems administration and troubleshooting, while supporting recruitment campaigns and candidate attraction activity. This role suits someone with sound operational HR experience who enjoys improving processes, solving problems, and delivering excellent service, while developing broader advisory and recruitment expertise.
In addition, the role supports wider People team priorities and projects, contributing to continuous improvement across HR/People systems, recruitment, ISI compliance, and the overall employee experience.
Role responsibilities
People Systems and HR Operations
Act as a key user for the school’s HR/People and payroll system, iTrent
Maintain and ensure data integrity across HR/People systems
Investigate and resolve first and second line HR/People systems queries and issues
Support troubleshooting, testing and implementation of system improvements and upgrades
Liaise with internal stakeholders and external providers to resolve technical or processrelated issues
Support the monitoring and auditing of compliance checks and Single Central Register data, ensuring accuracy and highlighting any gaps or risks.
Support the development and ongoing use of HR/People reporting, including iTrent dashboards and data outputs
Recruitment and Attraction
Advisor and co-ordinator of end-to-end recruitment processes across teaching and operational roles
Draft engaging job adverts using a range of platforms and social media channels
• Support targeted recruitment campaigns and proactive candidate attraction activity
• Undertake candidate sourcing and headhunting activity where appropriate
• Provide an excellent candidate experience
• Support the school’s employer brand and recruitment marketing activity
Person Specifications
• Recruitment and candidate attraction experience beyond pure administration
Experience coordinating recruitment campaigns and using social media for recruitment
Experience working within an HR or People team, in a school environment would be an advantage
• Experience using HR/People systems, ideally iTrent or similar HRIS
• Experience resolving systems or process issues
• Confident using Microsoft Office and HR/People reporting tools
• CIPD Level 3 or working towards CIPD qualification or equivalent
Behaviours and competencies
Strong organisational and administrative skills
Ability to manage multiple priorities and work accurately at pace
• Good communication and relationship-building skills
Understanding of confidentiality and data protection requirements
• Experience supporting payroll processes
Knowledge of safer recruitment requirements
• Hold a strong understanding of the importance of Safeguarding and Child Protection
• Demonstrate a commitment to the values and pillars of LWC
Be proactive in matters relating to health and safety
• Demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion practices
Attention to detail & accuracy
Key Stakeholders
• People Team
• Finance and IT departments
• Senior Leadership Teams
• All staff at St Neot’s Prep & Lord Wandsworth College
This role profile is not exhaustive and will be subject to review. It may be amended to meet the changing needs of the college.
Lord Wandsworth College
A different kind of school for a wonderfully open world
Uncertainty is a gift to those with a wide perspective, an open mind and the space and the safety to explore. Our job is to widen students’ worlds so nothing is beyond their grasp.
We’ve been ‘widening worlds’ since 1922, when LWC was founded by Sydney Stern (Lord Wandsworth) to support orphans. In those days, this widening of worlds was very much a response to the fact that orphans’ worlds had contracted or collapsed very suddenly. The school expanded their opportunities, connecting them - via our vast acreage and farmland - with a path into agriculture.
These days, the future is far less known; vocations harder to predict. And so the need to widen worlds is more profound. We support and inspire students, around 700 of them, to be able to forge their own futures, each one more exciting and extraordinary than any goal they could have envisaged at the start. Wonderfully, our students’ successes make our world bigger too.
Appointment process and how to apply
Please apply via our LWC website using the Hire Road platform.
The closing date for applications is Friday 12th June with interviews taking place in the week commencing 22nd June 2026.
The college reserves the right to close the role early.
Should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence please feel free to contact the Director of People, Dawn Wilde, wilded@lordwandsworth.org.
We welcome people of all faiths and those that are committed to these values. We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity we are actively encouraging applications from underrepresented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.
Appointments will be made subject to receipt of satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check. The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. The successful applicant will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check and references. We are an equal opportunities employer.
Lord Wandsworth College is a registered charity (Number: 1143359) providing outstanding caring education for boys and girls since 1922.
Long Sutton, Hampshire, RG29 1TA T. 01256 862201 W. www.lordwandsworth.org