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Academy Administrator, Attendance and Admissions Lead

Robsack Wood Primary Academy, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN38 9TE

This job expired on 31 October 2021 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  31 October 2021 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  19 October 2021

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: East Sussex Grade 5 - £19,698 - £20,092

Academy Administrator, Attendance and Admissions Lead job summary

Full time, 37 hours per week, term time only plus two weeks in the school holidays.

Monday to Thursday: 8am - 4pm and Friday 8am - 3:30pm with 30 minutes lunch break each day.

Pro-rata actual salary: £17,561.62 to £18,716.52 per annum. ​​​​​​​

We have an exceptional opportunity for a friendly and highly organised person to join our dynamic and busy office team. Our perfect candidate should have previous experience of a school environment, be enthusiastic, positive, self-motivated and have the capacity for hard work and a desire to work along- side our skilled administrative team.

The role involves working closely with teachers, parents, the senior leadership team, safeguarding officer and outside agencies to encourage excellent attendance, reduce levels of absence and work with children and families to promote high and sustained levels of academy attendance. You will also be obtaining explanations for unexplained pupil absences and registering children who are late to school.

You will monitor closely children who take leave of absence during term time and work in conjunction with our inclusion team.

Additionally, you will process new admissions to the school and administer school transfers and the new Reception intake on an annual basis.  You will also be the lead for DfE Census returns.

You will be supporting the wider administration team by completing a wide variety of tasks, ranging from answering the telephone to dealing with complex queries from parents. You will have a kind and personable approach to pupils, staff and external stakeholders and a have a great telephone manner.

The ability to work effectively with pupils and their parents/carers is essential. Experience of working with SIMS would be advantageous and a good level of ICT skills is essential.

In return, we offer development opportunities to all our staff, plus a supportive and friendly environment.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups including children, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS clearance is required for this role.

You will be joining a friendly, enthusiastic and highly motived team and will undertake a wide range of duties associated with a busy school office. You will be the a first point of contact for parents and visitors to the school and will need to be able to communicate effectively at all levels and have a welcoming, helpful manner. The duties of the post are varied, so a high level of flexibility is required.

The successful candidate will undertake some reception duties, answer routine telephone calls, face-to face enquires and sign in visitors, assist with pupil welfare duties, liaising with both parents and stakeholders.

If this sounds like the job for you, then we would love to hear from you.

Commitment to safeguarding

The University of Brighton Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check. This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

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About Robsack Wood Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 482 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Robsack Wood Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: hr@robsackwoodprimaryacademy.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/robsack-wood-primary-academy (opens in new tab)

About Robsack Wood Primary Academy

Ofsted grade: Outstanding (2010)

Robsack Wood is a school for 4 to 11-year olds in St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex. We promote personal achievement for all our pupils and provide creative learning opportunities so that every child succeeds. Our pupils enjoy an exceptional learning environment including outdoor learning in our Forest School, a large grassed playing field, adjacent woodlands, garden areas and animal areas with chickens and ducks. We also host a nursery for children aged from 3 months.

We hold the Arts Council Artsmark Award and East Sussex Quality Mark for Inclusion.

We can offer you:

-a calm, positive and innovative learning environment

-excellent facilities and resources for staff and pupils.

About the University of Brighton Academies Trust

The University of Brighton Academies Trust is the fifth largest multi-academy trust in the south east, with 15 infant, primary and secondary schools all graded by Ofsted as Good or Outstanding. We educate 7,700 children aged 3 months to 16 years and employ 1,200 staff across East and West Sussex.

Excellence, innovation and integrity are the values that guide us.  We work collaboratively to help our pupils and everyone connected with our academies achieve excellence. By working together, sharing insights and best practice our schools support each other to improve.  Read more about our vision and values.

The University of Brighton is our sponsor.  We work closely with the University’s School of Education: in 2019 it was judged as Outstanding by Ofsted for all Initial Teacher Training and was awarded the Student Union’s school of the year.

Benefits we offer

We value our staff, investing in their training and development at all stages of their careers.

We place particular importance on providing opportunities for you to learn and grow, with a package that includes an annual personal development day, job-related apprenticeships to enhance your skillset, open access online training courses, and scholarships run in collaboration with the University of Brighton.  And when the time is right for you to take the next step in your career, we can help you to find the right opportunity in one of our 15 schools.  

The other benefits we offer including our generous public sector pension schemes and family friendly policies are designed to support you with work-life balance, wellbeing and the financial aspects of life.

Our commitment

The University of Brighton Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

We welcome applications from all members of the community. The Trust is proud to be part of the government’s Disability Confident scheme which underpins our staff recruitment practices.

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