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Job details
Job title: School Admissions Officer
Job reference: 000010832
Date posted: 18/02/2025
Application closing date: 04/03/2025
Working Pattern: Blank
Salary Grade: F £29,093 - £31,586 a year
Contractual hours: Blank
Basis: Blank
Job category/type: School Support
Directorate: People Services – School Organisation and Provision
Hours: 37 hours a week
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Council House and Hybrid Working
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated person to work full time within the School Organisation and Provision Team, who are responsible for delivering School Admissions, School Place Planning, Childcare Family Information, and Capital Management statutory services.
You will be a key member of the team working closely with Senior Officers, providing essential support. You will have particular responsibility for supporting the School Admissions Team in relation to school admissions, admission appeal processes, and document management including school admissions website maintenance. The School Admissions Team is predominantly a frontline service incorporated within the School Organisation and Provision Section, based in The Council House, primarily aimed at enabling as many parents as possible to obtain a school place for their children at their preferred schools.
The School Admissions Team continually strives to improve access to information which supports improved decision making by parents and carers. There is a significant element of high-level administrative support and guidance involved including assisting parents and carers to make the best possible choices. The Team also works very closely with stakeholders, partners and agencies including, but not limited to, own admission authority schools (including academies, foundation schools, aided schools, and free schools), Education Welfare and Youth Offending Services, New Communities Achievement Team, Social Care, Inclusion, and Inclusion Services.
For further information or an informal chat about this post, please contact Lisa Sansum, School Admissions Manager on 01332 642727.
Next Steps
If you would like to apply for this vacancy, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website. The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 4 March 2025. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below. All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job. Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification. Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job. We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for. Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk.
Please see Job Description here
Please see Person Specification here
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