Administrative Assistant

The Beeches Community Primary School, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 6ET

Deadline is tomorrow

• Job start date

  1 January 2025

• Closing date

  15 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  22 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,114.00 - £23,898.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 3, Point 4 to Point 6

Administrative Assistant job summary

Contract Details: 13 hours over 2 days per week (Monday and Tuesday ideally), 8.30am-3.30pm, 39 weeks a year

The Beeches Community Primary School is a friendly and happy school. We are part of a thriving multi-academy trust, ASSET Education.

We are looking for an Administrative Assistant to undertake various administrative duties in the main office over the course of 2 days per week, 8.30am-3.30pm.

The person that we are looking for needs to:

• Relish the challenge of supporting children and families in a busy school office environment.

• Work with dynamic, forward thinking staff with high aspirations for our children. Be an Administrative Assistant who exemplifies outstanding organisation, time management and flexibility.

• Have good levels of English and Maths competence - GCSE C or equivalent

• Good IT skills and knowledge of Google, Word, Excel, Arbor MIS (for example)

• Be friendly and approachable; able to communicate well with a range of children and adults.

• Be able to multitask and prioritise workload.

• Enjoy working with others and within a team.

• Share our vision and values to support our inclusive ethos.

Our aim is to attract people from diverse backgrounds to build on our inclusive culture and represent the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy, maternity and paternity. We are committed to inclusivity and will consider requests for flexible working including part time and job share arrangements, where the role allows.

We are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health of all our staff, developing skills, training, further qualification and accreditation. The Beeches CP School offers a caring, friendly and welcoming environment. Visits are strongly recommended.

Please contact us on 01473 741225 or email office@beechescps.org.uk with any queries or to submit your application.

ASSET Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the job description and will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and children's barred list check, health check, online search and satisfactory references. Copies of our safeguarding and safer recruitment policies are available on request.

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 The Beeches Community Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 392 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Beeches Community Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-beeches-community-primary-school (opens in new tab)

Age 2-11 Primary School

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