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Administrative Assistant

Tower Hill Primary School, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 0BW

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  6 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  20 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: Hours of work: 30 hours. Monday – Wednesday 8-4.30. Thurs/Fri – 8 -11. Term time +1 week (40 weeks per year)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 24405-25403

What skills and experience we're looking for

Job/Person Summary

We are looking for a friendly and personable candidate to join our school office team. Most importantly you will be first point of contact for visitors to the school and will be managing a range of office related tasks to ensure the smooth running of the administration of the school.

A successful candidate needs to:

• Be able to prioritise and remain calm under pressure
• Deal efficiently and politely with telephone and face to face requests
• Be confident using a range of IT systems including Microsoft Office
• Have excellent communication skills and a positive, friendly outlook
• Have achieved a Grade C or above in English and Maths GCSE or equivalent.

Whilst not essential, a working knowledge of Arbor (school information system) would be desirable.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer a lovely environment in which to work alongside people who are organised and friendly. Our children are wonderful and families very supportive. Your time working in the office will be varied and will bring job satisfaction. There will be opportunities for personal professional development.

Responsibilities include:

• Data Management – using Arbor, you would be responsible for inputting and ordering school lunches and ensuring the attendance of pupils each day. This would include the handling of leave requests and issuing penalty notices.
• School Trips and clubs – Distributing letters to parents and collection of data for preparation for school trips.
• Financial accounting – managing income from parents for a variety of purposes and banking
• Managing queries via telephone or face to face at reception.
• Medical – managing medicines used in school and keeping records. First aid training can be arranged if required.

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

Please complete the online application.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Tower Hill Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 421 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Tower Hill Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: adminoffice@towerhill.hants.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/tower-hill-primary-school (opens in new tab)

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