24 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    25 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    28 March 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: Paid hours of work: 32.5 Hours per week - Monday to Friday / 46.2 weeks per year (a half hour unpaid lunch break is additional to these hours)

Contract type

Permanent

Actual salary

18,992

What skills and experience we're looking for

- To word-process and produce Trust documentation as requested.

- To draft correspondence to parents/carers, staff, governors and external agencies.

Job Description

-To deal with enquiries, answering the telephone and relaying messages to staff and pupils.

- To maintain efficient filing, indexing and internal correspondence systems.

- To support the Trust in the production of reports and policy documents as required.

- To minute meetings as required.

- To deal with all confidential matters with tact and discretion.

- To assist with ordering and maintaining school supplies.

- To provide cover at other Trust sites as required.

Personal Specification

Knowledge

- A basic knowledge of the work of a school

- Knowledge of, or willingness to learn, a range of computer applications including Word, Excel, SharePoint and BROMCOM Experience

- Experience of producing documents of a high standard

- Experience of undertaking a range of clerical and administrative duties, including data input Skills & Abilities

- Ability to word-process documents quickly and accurately

- Ability to work in an organised and methodical manner

- Ability to develop efficient record keeping systems

- Ability to produce accurate and up-to-date records and reports as required

- Ability to identify work priorities and manage own workload to meet deadlines whilst ensuring that lower priority work is kept up to date

- Ability to show sensitivity and objectivity in dealing with confidential issues Personal Qualities

- Ability to demonstrate commitment to Equal Opportunities

- Willingness to participate in further training and developmental opportunities offered by the Trust Desirable Criteria

- Previous experience of working in an administrative capacity

What the school offers its staff

- A supportive a welcoming team


- Opportunities for Professional Development

- A dynamic and creative working environment

- Wellbeing support in the form of an Employee Assistance Provider (EAP)

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.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to apply
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About Summerdown School

School type
Free School, ages 3 to 16
School size
132 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01323 921630

Arranging a visit to Summerdown School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@thesouthfieldtrust.com.

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