Location: High Wycombe
Overview
Contract Type: Permanent
Required for: June/July 2025
Hours: Full time. Monday to Friday 0800-1715 hours. Six weeks’ annual leave (30 days)
Closing Date for Applications: Friday 21 March 2025
About Us
Pipers Corner is a Girls’ School Association Independent School for girls aged 4-18. Set in 96 acres of beautiful Chiltern countryside, the school is four miles north of High Wycombe and two miles from Great Missenden. In its most recent ISI inspection (March 2023), the school was graded as “excellent” in all categories.
Job Responsibilities
To oversee and manage all aspects of the School Office. Responsible for a wide range of secretarial duties, ensuring the overall efficiency of the School Office and the two Office Administrators.
About You
The following qualities are essential:
* Recent previous office management experience
* Experience of mentoring and supporting direct reports
* Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
* Energy and enthusiasm
* A calm and personable manner
* A methodical and expeditious approach to handling data
* Awareness of safeguarding requirements
* Discretion at all times, particularly when dealing with confidential matters
Completed application forms and a covering letter should be addressed to the Headmistress and returned to HR via the email address above. Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date, and Pipers Corner School reserves the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.
Pipers Corner School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
Registered Charity No. 310635
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
* All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
* All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a self-disclosure form and return it prior to the interview.
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