When you visit the website for the Hillingdon Borough of London and you specifically enquire after primary schools, the name list which is alphabetic runs from B to Y which indicates immediately some letters of the alphabet is not required, however, what a surprise to find just short of Seventy primary schools plus 4 special primary schools are listed.

When you ask for secondary schools there are 18 and also 3 special secondary schools and a click further there are 6 independent schools, then 2 Uxbridge Colleges the Uxbridge and the Hayes Campus and to top it off, Brunel University found in Uxbridge.

A mammothtask for a Schools Human Resources Co-operative

The Schools HR Co-operative is also based in Uxbridge and if you are privy to the tasks that a Human Resources business has to perform you may appreciate the importance of a professional organisation like Schools HR Co-operative serving a community enveloping such a vast number of learning institutions in one Borough and surrounds.

Schools are; Tuition, care, and support, requiring exceptional personnel

This article is aimed at the parents and other concerned members of the community we wish to inform of the activity of the organisation responsible for the supply of staff to the schools surrounding you, where your children are, were or may be sent.

With as many as 95 schools in one borough just imagine the enormity of the human resources task in sourcing and appraising staff to occupy the myriad of positions as or when they become vacant.

The Schools Human Resources Co-operative in Uxbridge offers

We can not find a better way of describing the Offer of the Co-op to the schools and therefore the community, than the cultured words employed by themselves to illuminate their function:

“Our mission is to support schools and academies to manage their human resources to the best effect helping them to focus on their core objective of enabling the children in their care to receive a better education and better life chances, all in a safe environment.”

The HR Co-operative further describes their day job as the provision of professional and comprehensive HR support which will allow the teachers to get on with their day jobs, educating and caring for the children in their charge.

More detail on the services the Schools HR Co-operative provide

When they are contracted to a school or academy their team of experienced casework advisers, personnel officers and administrators ensure that all possible HR needs are taken care of.

The business is based within a school which provides them with a unique perspective and continuously keeps them aware what their core purpose really is, which may be divided into four categories:

• Advice & Guidance, which they provide ceaselessly on all aspects of HR, including telephone advice, face to face as well as at meetings and hearings.
• Payroll & Contracts Management. In co-operation with their exclusive payroll partner Dataplan they provide a unique payroll and contracts management service.
• Professional Recruitment, which they do through a managed advertising and recruitment service and also the subsequent appraisal and recommendation of staff.
• A Health & Well-being Service which was launched in April 2012, a school-centric service focusing on the specific needs of the schools they support.

You may be so lucky, if your school is already contracted to Schools HR Co-operative.