Case Study: Bryanston School achieves streamlined recruitment and HR efficiency with CIPHR

Bryanston School - Customer Case Study

Bryanston School, a co-educational boarding school in Dorset with about 670 pupils and a three-person HR team supporting roughly 600 staff, was using an unreliable, in-house Microsoft Access HR database. The school needed a secure, GDPR-ready system with self-service, flexible reporting, an integrated recruitment portal and reduced reliance on IT to streamline manual processes and improve safeguarding compliance.

They implemented CIPHR (including iRecruit, onboarding, policy acceptance, employee self-service, reporting and an API integration with iSAMS), delivering faster, more reliable HR operations and significant time savings—especially in recruitment through bulk actions and automated communications. The change boosted line manager engagement, strengthened onboarding and employer branding, sped up single central record production, kept data synced nightly with iSAMS, and freed HR to focus on strategic work with strong ongoing support from CIPHR.

Bryanston School

Johnathan Fell

HR Advisor