What skills and experience we're looking for
• Have excellent customer care and communication skills along with the ability to work as part of a team or independently using your own initiative.
• Be confident in liaising with parents/carers for any pupil absences and the recording of these on the management information system (School Pod/CPOMS).
• Have experience of working within an administrative role that involves data inputting, general administration tasks, diary management, reception duties and dealing with telephone calls from members of the public, parents, multi-agency colleagues and internal colleagues.
• Fully preparing agendas/minutes for Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and SEND meetings and other admin support to the schools SENCO including producing timely and accurate agendas, information, and reports for a range of audiences including the school governors.
• Liaising and co-ordinating with school transport for pupils’ taxis both into school at the beginning of the day and their return journey home.
• Carrying out financial tasks in line with expected protocol, including processing orders and payments.
• Awareness of GDPR and data protection.
• Full Training will be given
What the school offers its staff
The successful candidates will be joining a school that offers many other personal benefits including:
§ A positive, friendly and professional working environment.
§ An opportunity to work with an amazing group of young people.
§ Bespoke and comprehensive induction package for new staff followed up with outstanding CPD.
§ A subsidised Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
§ A talented and supportive Senior Leadership Team and dedicated Governing Body.
§ A supportive environment in which your talents will be encouraged, nurtured and rewarded.
If you like the idea of working with a talented school team, we would love to hear from you right now!
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.