Description Stowmarket High School, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 1QR £24,404 - £25,183 pro rata FTE (£8,432 actual per annum) 15 hours per week Permanent Reference: 6754 Required from February 2025. Stowmarket High School has an exciting future. We have seen a year-on-year improvement in GCSE results, but this forms just one piece of the jigsaw, and we strive to provide the best all-round education for our young people. Our enriching curriculum seeks to give our students every access to knowledge, skills and experiences to help them prepare for the future and encourage them to be independent, creative, confident and socially responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society. We are proud to be the town school and work to improve the life chances and opportunities for all our students. We are looking for a temporary Business Support Officer to join our busy school office. This role requires a calm, highly organised individual who is confident to interact with others and can work under pressure. Experience of working in an administrative or business support capacity within an educational setting would be advantageous. The hours of work in this post are 15 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term-time one week). You will: be consistently positive, polite and professional be confident to interact professionally and form effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders, including parents, pupils, staff, outside agencies and members of the public have embedded strategies to manage an intensive and varied workload possess, or be willing to train to acquire, strong ICT skills, including Office 365 and IT systems such as Lunch Hound, ParentMail and SIMS demonstrate high levels of organisation and attention to detail be able to adhere rigorously to confidentiality and GDPR regulations. We can offer: a welcoming and caring staff team a supportive team of professionals within the school and as part of Kingfisher Schools Trust a range of dedicated staff wellbeing support. As part of Kingfisher Schools Trust, you will receive a wide range of benefits, including: excellent opportunities for continuous professional development access to a huge variety of training courses through The National College pension scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contribution employee assistance programme for free and confidential advice shopping and leisure discounts cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme affordable electric car salary sacrifice scheme. How to apply: To view the job description and apply, please follow this link: https://mynewterm.com/jobs/145055/EDV-2024-SHS-18898 Closing date: 10am, 10 January 2025. Please submit your application as soon as possible, as the closing date for this vacancy may be altered if a sufficient number of applications are received. Our school is part of Kingfisher Schools Trust. The trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be part of the pre-employment screening process for this role. An application form must be completed in full; CVs alone cannot be accepted.