HR Shared Services Manager

At Esland, your work changes children’s lives. We provide the care, education and therapeutic support that helps vulnerable young people turn the curve on their futures.

Nobody starts work with our young people until their checks are right. This role owns that, along with everything else that happens to a colleague from offer to leaving day.

You will lead a team of six: two HR Administrators and four Onboarding and Compliance Administrators. Between you, you run the service the rest of Esland leans on. Contracts, onboarding, changes, leavers, and the safer recruitment checks that sit behind all of it.

Safer recruitment compliance is yours as a named accountability. DBS, right to work and Keeping Children Safe in Education checks need to be watertight before anyone sets foot in a home or a school. Part of the job is telling a manager no when a check is not right, however short-staffed the rota is.

The volume is real. So is the room to improve it. You will own the procedures, the metrics and the decisions about how this service works.