Administration Assistant
St Michael's Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy, Manchester, Lancashire, M45 8NJThis job expired on 22 September 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
5 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week TTO plus 5 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,633 - £23,893 Actual Salary £20,507.86 - £20,733.48
What skills and experience we're looking for
St. Michael’s are currently seeking an Administration Assistant. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Trust at the beginning of a journey of transition, development, and growth within the multi-academy trust.
The successful candidate will:
- Be a confident communicator (written and oral)
- Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Have well-developed ICT skills.
- Work well under pressure, working accurately with attention to detail, and meeting deadlines.
- Be flexible.
Our Mission
Our Trust Mission is simple, it is to make Christ known, making lives better for our communities, our children and young people.
Our Values
One of HopeInspired by St Teresa of Calcutta, we are people of hope. We have a complete belief in the future we will build together. By offering our children, staff and schools’ opportunities to grow and flourish, we make aspiration and ambition a reality. Our people, just like St Teresa are relentless and fiercely ambitious. We will always reach for that which seems to be just out of our grasp.
One of Courage
As modelled for us by St Teresa of Calcutta, we will have the courage to do what is right. As a community, we will not shy away from making decisions that ensure our communities thrive. We will be brave in our actions. As a truly Catholic organisation this courage will be most apparent in how we collectively support the most vulnerable.
One of Innovation
St Teresa of Calcutta changed the world. Together, we will always be pursuing new ideas and best practice in all areas of our work. We will prepare our children and young people for the world that awaits them. A world which they will shape and change.
We are seeking an individual who:
- Under the direction of senior staff, provide administration, organisational and financial support to the school.
- To undertake general financial administration, processing orders, invoices.
- To maintain school stock and supplies.
- To make arrangements for school trips.
- To respond to general day-to-day queries from suppliers.
- Reconciliation of charity money.
- To appreciate and support the role of other professionals.
- To support whole school duties as required.
- To undertake general administration duties e.g. photocopying, filing, faxing, emailing, and completing routine forms.
- To word process school documentation, including the production of letters, reports and schedules.
- To accurately input information to databases/ spreadsheets and maintain manual and computerised records and management information systems.
- To sort and distribute internal and external mail.
- To collate registers and complete returns as required by the DfE and LA.
- To undertake basic bookkeeping, collect monies and accurately record and balance funds. Examples may include the school fund, petty cash, school trips/events, photographs, postage, school meals, milk, telephone calls etc.
- To act as a first point of contact, undertaking reception duties and answering telephone and face-to-face enquiries.
- To welcome visitors to the school, ensuring that health and safety and safeguarding procedures are followed, including signing visitors in/out, issuing badges and escorting visitors as required.
- To respond to general day-to-day queries from staff, pupils, parents and external visitors.
- To make arrangements for external visitors, for example the school nurse, photographer and parents, in liaison with the Headteacher/Senior Staff.
- To undertake pupil first aid/welfare duties, looking after sick pupils, liaising with parents/staff, in accordance with school procedure.
- To assist with other aspects of general administration within school.
- To make a positive contribution to the school, supporting and promoting its ethos, aims and inputting to the development/improvement plan.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
- A supportive and dedicated Local Governing Body and Staff
- Highly effective safeguarding procedures.
- A working environment where all feel valued and respected.
- Supportive colleagues and governors with a clear vision and high aspirations for the school.
- A highly dedicated and inspirational team.
- A commitment to relevant, personalised Continuous Professional Development.
- A happy, calm and welcoming working environment.
- Opportunities to work within the wider STOCCAT team
- Generous 22.7% Local Government Pension scheme employer contribution
- Recognition of continuous Local Government service (where applicable)
The Trust is committed to welcoming individuals regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity, sexual orientation or marital status or whether you are pregnant or on parental leave or from a socio-economic background. We welcome applicants from all communities and from people that identify with those characteristics.
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.
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About St Michael's Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 197 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- St Michael's Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@stoccat.org.uk
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