Admin Assistant
Summerdown School, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN22 9PZDeadline is tomorrow
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
- 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.
CVs are not accepted.
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
- School website
- Summerdown School website
- Email address
- recruitment@thesouthfieldtrust.com
- 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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