Admissions Officer
Orion Eden Park, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3RD7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
20 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 November 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
- NJC Scale 3, points 5-7 (36 hours, 41 weeks)
Admissions Officer job summary
Based at Orion Eden Park High School
Orion Education is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
Job Purpose
Improving Admissions
Administration of Year 6 and 6th Form admissions into the Academy
Taking and responding to telephone and e-mail enquiries.
Main point of contact for Admissions, Open Evening, Transition and other student Induction events, with parents, students, staff and Local Authority Admissions Team
Administration of Open Mornings and Evenings, including arranging publicity. Attending Open Evening to assist in the event and to give advice to parents on our Admissions Procedure.
To be a key point of contact for the Academy’s uniform supplier.
Ensuring that transition and enrolment with the Academy goes smoothly by:
Regularly contacting parents
Sending out Admissions Packs and collating consent and information forms
Raising new student folders, management of student records and archiving
Inputting student details on the MIS System, following up missing data
Contacting the parents of students who do not start the Academy when expected.
Developing relationships with feeder and local primary schools. Arranging transfer of files.
Keeping up to date with new Admissions Regulations and policies.
Co-ordination of appeals.
Sending out appeals paperwork
Taking and responding to telephone enquiries.
Collating paperwork to be sent to both the appeals clerk and our appeals representative.
Providing spreadsheets and other information regarding admissions to our appeals representative.
Administration of In-Year admissions into the Academy
Liaise with the Local Authority on the waiting List for all years.
Contact previous/current schools for information regarding applicants
Informal meeting with Parents/Students to discuss admission
Writing offer letters
Arranging Timetables/Admission/Buddy
Developing and implementing protocols for In-Year Admissions
Ensuring smooth induction and first days
Communication with Faculty Directors, pastoral staff regarding new admissions
Aiding with off-rolling and transferring files for leavers in line with the Federation and Statutory procedures
Assisting with the transfer and receipt of student files (including SEND and Safeguarding records)
Data Management support
Supporting Data Manager in inputting, amending, extract reports and analysis
Supporting ALG, students and staff in use of Academy’s MIS system
Administrative Support
Deal with complex reception/visitor etc. matters
Contribute to the planning, development and organisation of support service systems/procedures/policies
Coordinate the administration of pupil admissions and leavers
Train and develop administrative staff as appropriate
Manage manual and computerised record/information systems
Analyse and evaluate data/information and produce reports/information/data as required
Provide personal, administrative and organisational support to other staff
Undertake administration of complex procedures
Complete and submit complex forms, returns etc., including those to outside agencies, e.g. DfE
*We reserve the right to this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Orion Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Orion Education is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
Commitment to safeguarding
Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
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.
About Orion Eden Park
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1303 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Orion Eden Park website (opens in new tab)
Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative, and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
In joining Eden Park High School and the family of schools within E21C you will gain access to an unparalleled level of support and development in a forward-thinking school and trust.
Eden Park High School is a new school in Beckenham. We opened in 2017, moved into our purpose-built new premises in 2019, celebrated our first ever GCSE results in 2022 and have opened our new Sixth Form this September. With a new and expanded leadership team, this young school is starting an exciting new chapter as we build the culture, systems and teams that will see us expand further over the next two years and deliver an outstanding quality of education for the community.
We are currently recruiting exceptional teachers and support staff who want to be part of our journey of transformation. We want people who will share in our ethos and values and set a new standard of excellence and inspire young minds.
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