Education Leadership Recruitment & Support Services | Edwin

Strategic leadership, HR, culture and wellbeing services

Supporting schools and multi-academy trusts with innovative, culture-centred education support services. From expert HR and leadership development to academisation, trust growth and trust mergers, we help you grow confidently and build thriving, future-ready communities.

What we do

We partner with school and trust leaders to provide strategic leadership, HR, executive recruitment, wellbeing and culture, services tailored to the complexities of leading high-performing schools and trusts.

Our role is to bring clarity and confidence to complex leadership and people challenges. We support trust senior leadership teams through periods of growth, education transformation and change, including trust expansion, mergers, academy conversions and organisational redesign. By working closely with leaders at every stage, we ensure our support is practical, financially sustainable and aligned to your unique educational context and ambitions.

People
Delivering specialist HR support for schools and trusts, helping organisations tackle workforce challenges with confidence. Spanning recruitment, retention, TUPE, employee relations, staffing structure reviews, investigations, and more.
Leadership
Supporting leaders through every stage of organisational growth, we provide specialist expertise, strategic and executive support. From trust mergers and academisation due diligence and organisational design to leadership development our strategic insight helps leaders navigate education transformation confidently, creating a strong foundation for organisational success.
Culture and wellbeing
Our Still Human service offers a comprehensive approach to building a thriving organisational culture that strengthens staff wellbeing, enhances engagement, improves retention and builds high-performing workplaces that support long term success.
Education Leadership Recruitment
Our education leadership recruitment approach is designed to provide full support and guidance in line with KSCIE guidelines, from scoping, research, search, selection through to a final successful appointment. We specialise in recruitment for senior education leadership positions, including headteacher recruitment, CEOs, COOs, and CFOs across schools and multi-academy trusts.

Services

Explore our strategic leadership, HR and culture education support services delivered by Edwin People.

Our people services include:

HR advice
Internal HR support, development and capacity building
Restructure and redundancy
Pay and reward
Employee retention strategy
TUPE transfer and employment due diligence
Policies and procedures
External reviews including HR audit and safe recruitment
Central services structure design and reviews
Employee relations including TU negotiations

Our brands

Explore Edwin’s solutions for your people, leadership and culture.

Edwin People
Strategic HR, leadership and organisational support for schools and trusts, delivered by people who understand education from the inside.
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Still Human
Helping schools and trusts build cultures where staff feel valued, supported and able to do their best work for the young people in their care.
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Edwin Verify
Fast, compliant DBS checks built exclusively for schools and trusts so you can hire with confidence.

Products designed to support your teams

Digital products built for education, supporting candidate clearance, staff wellbeing and accessing important resources.

Who our services support

Supporting over 6000 schools and 800 multi-academy trusts, our strategic approach to HR and wellbeing ensures our support is practical and aligned to your unique educational context.

Primary schools
Secondary schools
SEND specialist schools
Independent schools
Multi-academy trusts
Mixed C of E MATs
Catholic schools and MATs

Why work with us

Managing a school or multi-academy trusts means balancing competing priorities alongside complex HR challenges. As strategic HR and leadership experts, our team focus on delivering high-quality trust support services, ensuring you have the consistency of a dedicated point of contact, alongside a wealth of expertise and operational support tailored specifically for your school or trust.

People first
Relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We build trust through openness, honesty, and genuine care for the people we work with. We treat everyone with respect, value different perspectives, and create positive, supportive partnerships that make it easy to work together.
Ambitious and outcomes focused
We are committed to helping our clients stay ahead of the game. We bring fresh thinking, sector insight and practical expertise to help schools and trusts navigate challenges with confidence.
Collaborative and responsive
The best outcomes come from strong partnerships. We work alongside leaders as a trusted extension of their team, taking time to understand their context and priorities. We listen carefully, respond quickly and adapt our support as needs evolve, ensuring our advice remains relevant, practical and impactful.
Clarity through expertise
Education leaders face increasing complex strategic and financial challenges. We cut through complexity to provide clear, practical advice and solutions that are easy to understand and implement. By combining deep expertise with a straightforward approach, we help leaders make informed decisions with confidence.