What skills and experience we're looking for
Personal Specification
EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL
• Administrative Experience
• Word Processing, Excel, email and general IT skills
• Working in a busy office
• Accounting of monies
DESIRABLE
• Working in a reception area
• Working in a school office
EDUCATION, TRAINING AND
QUALIFICATIONS
ESSENTIAL
• IT confident in Microsoft Office/Excel
• Maintaining information using desktop and cloud-based IT systems
• GCSE/O Level equivalent in English and Mathematics
DESIRABLE
• IT Qualifications
SKILLS AND
KNOWLEDGE
ESSENTIAL
• Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines
• Good organisational, written and verbal skills
• Excellent telephone manner
• Ability to act on own initiative
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to maintain necessary levels of confidentiality
• A pleasant, friendly manner.
DESIRABLE
• Working knowledge of an MIS system e.g. Bromcom
• Understanding of banking and accounting systems
• Working with a range of cloud-based systems
What the school offers its staff
• A dedicated team of supportive colleagues who are passionate about the pupils in their care
• An ethos of high expectations and mutual respect where pupils and adults are valued and cared for
• Access to a highly skilled, creative network of academies that work together to continually improve and innovate
• An extensive Health and Wellbeing package
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.