Administration Assistant
Maiden Erlegh School, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 7HSThis job expired on 11 December 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
11 December 2023 at 10:18am
Date listed
10 November 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Part time: 20 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 3, SCP 5. Fulltime £23,500. Actual £10,767
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are now looking for an administration assistant at Maiden Erlegh School to provide efficient, effective and confidential administrative support in our school office.
We are looking for a team player with a minimum of 2 years’ experience in an administrative role, with the following skills:
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Competent with Excel spreadsheets
- Ability to identify stakeholders’ needs quickly and deal with queries
- Reliability, tact, diplomacy, confidentiality, and sensitivity are paramount to this post
- Flexible approach to working and commitment to ongoing service and personal development (through self-evaluation and learning from others)
- Be able to work with frequent interruptions
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, with a range of people
- Good organisational and planning skills, able to manage own time, prioritise and meet deadlines
Maiden Erlegh School is an over-subscribed secondary school which is as committed to the welfare of students and staff as it is our high standards. One of the privileges of joining our school is working with our dynamic, ambitious and positive students.
The successful applicant will enjoy working with 11-18-year-olds. You must be adaptable and willing to be involved in all aspects of school life, have a calm manner and be able to work as part of team. You will share our inclusive values of “opportunity, diversity and success for all” and you will have a willingness to develop your own practice in line with our ethos of continuous improvement.
What the school offers its staff
Being part of the Maiden Erlegh Trust also offers a range of career opportunities across our schools. For our teaching team we offer a flexible CPD programme which staff can tailor to their own needs which includes coaching and training for new entrants to the profession and to support career returners.
We have a proven track record of supporting ambitious staff in to middle and senior leadership posts and can offer opportunities to broaden your impact on the sector through the work of the Maiden Erlegh Institute. We are very happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part-time working and job-sharing.
To learn more about our school, please visit www.maidenerleghschool.co.uk.
If you would like to have an informal chat with the hiring manager or visit the school, please email our recruitment team on recruitment@maidenerleghtrust.org who can help organise this.
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint before the closing date.
Maiden
Erlegh Trust is committed to safeguarding, equality and promoting the welfare
of children and staff. We are also committed to being ambitious for all and
supporting everyone to reach their full potential. All employees of the Trust
are expected to share these commitments. All posts require satisfactory
employment checks and references and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and
Barring Service check. All Leadership roles will require a Section 128 check.
Further information about the job
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.
About Maiden Erlegh School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1872 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Maiden Erlegh School website
- Email address
- recruitment@maidenerleghtrust.org
Maiden Erlegh School is an Outstanding 11-19 secondary school in Wokingham, Berkshire and a part of Maiden Erlegh Trust.
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