Administrative Assistant - Highdown School
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre, Reading, Berkshire, RG4 8LR12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
17 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
30 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 25 Hours a week - 8.00am – 1.00pm - Term Time, plus 5 x staff training days and two weeks in the school holidays.
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £14,251 - £14,490 Per year
What skills and experience we're looking for
25 Hours a week - 8.00am – 1.00pm -Term Time, plus 5 x staff training days and two weeks in the school holidays.
Highdown is looking to appoint a hardworking, enthusiastic, flexible and cheerful Administrative Assistant to join our friendly school office team. The successful applicant will have a positive and professional approach, be able to use their initiative and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
The role involves taking responsibility for the effective organisation of the school office, dealing with parental, staff, governor and student enquiries, providing a high level of customer care and general administration and reception duties.
The successful candidate will show a willingness to learn and undertake further professional development opportunities.
What the school offers its staff
For details and an application form visit our website: www.highdown.reading.sch.uk. Please return your completed application form to Miss Nicci Burns, Headteacher’s PA, in the post or by email to hnb@highdown.reading.sch.ukClosing date: 9.00am, Friday 18th October 2024
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are also trained in safer recruitment and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and a ‘Prohibition from Teaching’ check.
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.
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About Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1562 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hnb@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Highdown was awarded academy status in 2010 and was judged to be a good school by Ofsted in April 2015.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a thriving school where all students are challenged to reach excellence every day.
Our most important resource is our staff. Therefore, we aim to create the conditions and culture within the academy that make Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre a rewarding place to work. We are committed to investing in staff professional learning and leadership development, taking action to rationalise workload, promote mental and physical health and wellbeing, and encourage collaboration and peer support.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, teaching and support staff (including temporary and supply staff), governors and volunteers to share this commitment.
Arranging a visit to Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hnb@highdown.reading.sch.uk.
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