Administration Officer

Rastrick High School, Brighouse, West Yorkshire, HD6 3XB

14 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  15 September 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  28 August 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,001.00 - £21,353.00 Annually (Actual) Term Time Only plus 10 days - NJC 3 SCP 5 - 6

Administration Officer job summary

CORE PURPOSE

• Ensure administrative needs relating to whole school administration, reception and pupil services are met.
• To support the delivery of an efficient, professional and effective central (general) administration service across the school.
• Undertake reception duties, greeting visitors and handling face-to-face enquiries.
• Control and monitor entry to the school including the visitor signing in system and safeguarding issues.
• Handling telephone enquiries, transferring calls, taking messages where appropriate and following up with relevant staff.
• Ensure efficient, accurate and timely communication links for parents / carers, staff and other interested parties.
• Cover first aid duties along with a wide variety of matters including contact with pupils, staff and parents / carers and extensive use of SIMS and related software.

MAIN DUTIES (and specific responsibilities)

• Reception duties, welcoming visitors to school, attending to students coming into and leaving school out of normal hours.
• Handling Switchboard, dealing with enquiries from a large range of callers including parents, ensuring all calls are answered quickly and dealt with efficiently, routing enquiries to the correct person or department whilst maintaining a polite and professional manner.
• Dealing with student absence, accurately updating school records to record the absences and contacting parents for further information working within a tight timescale.
• Support student services, dealing with queries from students and administrating first aid.
• Supporting the reprographics service by designing materials and producing resources to a high standard. This includes scanning, laminating, binding and printing documents.
• Provide administrative support e.g. photocopying, filing, production of teaching resources, displays, attendance, data, completion of standard forms, respond to correspondence, collation and distribution of material.
• Administration of school visits including producing lists/information/ data as required.
• Deal with all aspects of mail including internal, external and electronic.
• Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
  
  

HOURS

The hours for this role are 37 hours per week working Monday to Friday.

This role is term time only plus 10 days.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Rastrick High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1776 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Rastrick High School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/rastrick-high-school (opens in new tab)

With around 1600 students and 200 staff, the School continues to grow and we are investing in our facilities and environment accordingly. As a result, this is an exciting time to be joining the school and contributing to its success.

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