This network is for staff in member colleges who are responsible for HR functions including recruitment, retention, HR policies, staff welfare, managing absence, redundancies and restructuring.
Network meetings take place on Zoom three times per year. At each meeting we include an employment law update with our employment lawyer Alice Reeve, to update members on case law and relevant HR issues and answer questions from network members.
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Upcoming meetings
HR network (incl. employment law update)
20 June 2024This is a free online HR networking event for Natspec members.
HR network (incl. employment law update)
7 November 2024This is a free online HR networking event for Natspec members.
Employment law updates
The employment law update, given by Alice Reeve from Veale Wasborough Vizards, is recorded at each meeting. Recent recordings can be viewed using the links below.
- Employment law update March 2024
- Employment law update November 2023
- Employment law update March 2023
- Employment law update October 2022
- Employment law update May 2022
- Employment law update January 2021
- Employment law update September 2020
Meeting notes
Agenda, notes and presentations from all previous HR network meeting are available in the HR managers folder in the Member SharePoint area.
Salary benchmarking
Members who take part in Natspec’s salary benchmarking exercise receive full results of the salary range and median salaries for the following job roles:
Education Staff: CEO / Principal, Deputy Principal, Senior Leadership/Dept Head, Senior/Lead Tutor, Tutor, Support Worker/LSA, Quality Manager, Transition Manager, Student Welfare Officer
Office and Admin staff: Business/Marketing Manager, Recruitment/Admissions Officer, Administration Officer, Finance Officer
Care Staff: Care Manager / Residential Manager, Deputy Care Manager, Lead or Senior Residential Support Worker, Residential Support Worker
Therapy Staff: Clinical services manager/Head of therapies, Highly specialist/lead physiotherapist, physiotherapist, Highly specialist/lead occupational therapist, occupational therapist, Highly specialist/lead speech and language therapist, speech and language therapist, Highly specialist/lead creative arts therapist, creative arts therapist, Therapy assistant/associate practitioner/technician/apprentice, Psychologist, Psychology Assistant, Counsellor.
If you are part of a member college and would like to check our last results, please download below. If you have any queries, please email beth.mobbswhite@natspec.org.uk or raise them in the next network!
Natspec Salary benchmarking results 2022 Natspec Salary benchmarking results 2021College policies
Natspec collects college HR policies from the websites of member colleges, and makes these available to HR network members so that they can be used as examples when colleges are creating or updating policies.
Specialist colleges must make certain policies publicly available as a requirement of their ESFA funding contract or as an expectation of inspection agencies such as Ofsted, Estyn or CQC. The policies that would normally be expected to be published include information on safeguarding, admissions, curriculum, behaviour, remote education, complaints, discipline/grievance, bullying, emergency evacuation, personal care, visitors, and equalities.
Explore the college policies library
Job descriptions
Network members share job descriptions in order to support each other during recruitment. The library of job descriptions is growing and examples can be viewed or downloaded for college principal, various education staff roles, finance and business administration staff, health and therapy roles, and care staff.
Explore the job description library
Natspec jobs board
Member colleges receive discounted access to advertise vacant roles on the Natspec website.
If you would like your job to appear on this board, please fill out the form on the jobs page.
