What skills and experience we're looking for
Main duties and responsibilities
- Follow the Trust and LIPA School Safeguarding policies and procedures and toensure the wellbeing of all children and students is of the highest priority.
- Contribute to the day-to-day running of the LIPA School and follow Trust andSchool policies and procedures.
- Contribute to the mission and vision of the Trust, and to actively support theimplementation of the Trust values.
- Be fully aware of and carry out all work in line with ChildProtection/Safeguarding Procedures.
- Take an active role in ensuring the realisation of the Trust’s development.
- Treat each student and each other as an individual with courtesy and respect.
- Have due regard for Health & Safety.
- Undertake any other duty deemed reasonable by the Headteachers.
- Provide cover at reception as and when needed.
- To ensure that the school’s recruitment targets are met.
- To handle all aspects of the school’s admissions process with a view tomaximising the number of enquiries, visits, registrations and joiners.
- To ensure that the admissions database is at all times up to date with theprerequisite information.
- To advise on strategies to promote the regular and punctual attendance of allpupils and assist with the implementation of agreed strategies.
- Update school records, analyse attendance data and provide reports to seniormanagers and other professionals.
- Disseminate information, both internally and externally, in a timely fashion, asrequired.
- Meet with school staff, pupils and parents to establish the reasons for nonattendance/poor punctuality and agree a plan with appropriate strategies andtimescales to tackle the issues.
- Make contact with the families in response to allocated referrals through homevisits and /or meetings in school, as directed.
- Prepare the appropriate paperwork and present information as required toenable the school to meet its obligations and statutory responsibilities.
- Liaise and work with external organisations as required.
- Keep accurate, clear and concise records of all interventions and consultationsand update information on the school’s attendance system.
- Manage your own workload in line with the school priorities.
- Maintain a good working knowledge of the statutory framework and anypolicies and procedures relating to school attendance, child employment, childprotection and special needs etc. in order to be able to offer informed advice toparents, school staff and others.
- Collect all necessary documentation relating to new joiners, make copies andfile in central student record files.
- To organise, prepare and present all admissions appeals to an independentpanel in a timely fashion.
- Report up-to-date student numbers to the senior leadership team, as required.
- To assist the senior leadership team with the induction of new pupils in all yeargroups, as required.
- To liaise with local authority and to exchange information in a timely fashion,as appropriate.
- To maintain, store and archive confidentially the hardcopy of student records.
- To work with the SENCO in the admission of students with Education, Healthand Care Plans/Statements of SEN.
- To manage in-year waiting lists, to monitor student numbers in each yeargroup, and to liaise with the senior leadership team for in-year admissions.
- To undertake other relevant tasks to support the office staff and overalladministration of the school.
- Perform any other reasonable duties as may from time to time arise at therequest of your Line Manager.
What the school offers its staff
In return we offer a salary commensurate with experience, generous pension, and holiday entitlement and friendly working environment.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding children and promoting children’s welfare. This post is subject to all the relevant pre-employment checks set out in Keeping Children Safe in Education, including an enhanced DBS certificate with a barred-list check.