Administration Assistant

Bishop Alexander L.E.A.D. Academy, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 2BQ

27 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  24 February 2025

• Closing date

  17 January 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  18 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week pro-rata
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 year initially
• Pay scale: Scale NJC 5-10

What skills and experience we're looking for

Job purpose:

To work as part of a team ensuring the school office runs efficiently, whilst maintaining a friendly and professional service to the community, colleagues and governors.

To role model high standards, as the first point of contact for most visitors and enquiries to the school.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that all visitors are welcomed in a polite and professional manner, maintaining full compliance with the Visitors/Contractors On-Site Checks.
• General administration duties, such as preparing letters, texts and handouts.
• Ensure that Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance underpins all interaction with visitors, contractors and agency staff on site.
• E-mail management and responding where appropriate.
• To process the school dinner systems in place within the academy.
• Carry out first day absence calling and report to SLT unexplained absences.
• On occasion may be required to accompany another with home visits.
• Process holiday fines.
• Report collation and information gathering, general administration, business analysis and any other duties as required by school management (e.g.; persistent absence monitoring)
• Ensure pupil attendance is monitored and high light to SLT any areas of concern.
• Providing an accurate and confidential administrative service, including typing of correspondence, spreadsheets and presentations.
• Dealing with incoming correspondence including calls, post and e-mails in a professional manner.
• Hold a first aid certificate as required by the school.
• Assist with pupil first aid / welfare duties, looking after sick children, liaising with parents / staff etc. administering medication when necessary, in accordance with the school policy on administering medication.
• Undertaking ad hoc projects.
• Minute taking.
• Ensure the office and entrance area is well presented, tidy and organised.
• Process online payment system for parents to pay for trips/afterschool clubs etc.

What the school offers its staff

Please see our school website for our Candidate Pack.

Commitment to safeguarding

The L.E.A.D. Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to admin@bishopalexanderacademy.co.uk

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Administration Assistant Candidate Pack.docx - 3.46 MB (opens in new tab)

About Bishop Alexander L.E.A.D. Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 231 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Bishop Alexander L.E.A.D. Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: admin@bishopalexanderacademy.co.uk
• Phone number: 01636680040
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bishop-alexander-l-e-a-d-academy (opens in new tab)

L.E.A.D. Academy Trust was established in 2011 with a clear aim: to deliver outstanding school leadership to release every pupil’s full potential. Recognised by Ofsted as a leading academy sponsor, the Trust currently comprises 25 schools across Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Lincoln and Sheffield.

Join us and you can expect an excellent benefits package including salary sacrifice schemes, access to counselling and support provisions through the Employee Assistant Programme and a very generous local authority pension scheme.

Arranging a visit to Bishop Alexander L.E.A.D. Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@bishopalexanderacademy.co.uk.

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