Assessment Support

Dean Trust Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire, M13 0LF

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  15 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  6 October 2025

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: £32,061 - £33,699

Assessment Support job summary

The Dean Trust is seeking to appoint a talented and enthusiastic Assessment Support to join our dedicated team at Dean Trust Ardwick.

The core purpose of the role will be to support the Assessment Lead in managing the efficient and effective administration of all internal and external assessments and examinations, both general and vocational within the school, including liaising with staff, pupils, parents/carer, invigilators, examination boards, JCQ, other schools/colleges and other educational organisations.

To support the Assessment Lead in managing all aspects of examinations, assessment, recording and reporting, retrieving and analysing data as required, to ensure available data has an impact across the school.

To support the Assessment Lead with the implementation and maintenance of the school timetable.

Key responsibilities:

• To support the Assessment Lead with arrangements for the overall smooth running of internal and external examinations and assessments, ensuring that all related administration and preparation is undertaken.
• Support the Assessment Lead in leading the school’s commitment for reporting accurate data to the Trust, the DfE, the Local Authority and other agencies, for example via the DfE data checking exercises.
• Present, interpret and analyse reports on pupil progress, internal assessment data and examination results for Senior Leadership Team, Governors, Heads of Year and Heads of Department.
• Assist with the secure handling of coursework/controlled assessment marks and samples.
• Ensure annually changing JCQ and awarding organisation guidelines and procedures are followed at all times to meet JCQ inspections and the requirements of awarding organisations, including those bodies outside the remit of JCQ e.g. VTCT, NCFE.
• Assist with handling enquiries from parents, awarding bodies and other outside agencies.
• Support the Assessment Lead with the production of interim and annual reports to parents in all year groups and to use data gathering from the reports.
• Support the Assessment Lead in producing and publishing individual pupil targets for teaching staff at the start of the year.
• Be responsible for the safe receipt and secure storage of confidential materials, including safeguarding of sensitive information regarding candidates.
• Provide staff, parents and other agencies with data on request.
• To support the production of statutory School Census returns, coordinating with appropriate personnel to ensure data is accurate and complete.
• Continually update the progress pack format for all year groups to meet the needs of key stakeholders.
• Ensure data is user-friendly and relevant to help drive school improvement.
• Produce termly assessment updates for specific groups of pupils for all year groups eg: SEN, CLA & pupil premium, providing key analysis and actions.
• Manage, collate and distribute assessment, conduct and concern reports to parents, Form Tutors and Heads of Department after every data collection.
• Manage the collection of Year 9 options data, ensuring it meets the school accountability measure requirements.
• Assist in CATS administration by purchasing tests, setting up pupils and distributing results to interested parties.
• To ensure all data is supplied in advance of Pupil Progress Evenings and provide support where required.

 

For more information about the role please contact us on 01619 722988 or email emmahurworth@deantrustardwick.co.uk

Thank you again for your interest in working for The Dean Trust. We look forward to hearing from you.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates including those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Dean Trust Ardwick

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1339 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dean Trust Ardwick website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dean-trust-ardwick

Dean Trust Ardwick opened in 2015 and are now a fully-fledged Year 7-11 school, serving over 1200 pupils, in the heart of the Ardwick and Longsight community. We pride ourselves on being a local school for local children, and since inception we have become the school of choice for families.

We exist to empower our pupils to find their purpose and thrive as citizens of the world. We provide a knowledge-rich curriculum which exposes pupils to powerful knowledge, places them on an ambitious pathway and develops the character traits needed to seize the opportunities that exist. Through finding their passions we enable pupils to make a positive difference to the world. Our core purpose is not merely finite ‘success’ for our pupils but for them to thrive - continually grow and flourish.

We are explicit about the culture we want to create and have clear ideas of the desired behaviours necessary for our pupils to succeed. At Dean Trust Ardwick, we maintain a relentless focus on the day-to-day actions, behaviours and routines within the school and adopt a disciplined approach to teaching pupils the right and successful ways to do things.

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