Business Administration Apprenticeship
Katherine Warington School, Harpenden, AL5 5FH2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 July 2024
Closing date
20 May 2024 at 10am
Date listed
4 May 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £6.40 - £11.44 Hourly National Living Wage - £6.40 U18, £8.60 18-20, £11.44 21 and over
Business Administration Apprenticeship job summary
We are currently seeking to recruit an hardworking and enthusiastic individual to join our administration team. The Business Admin Apprentice will carry out a range of administrative tasks to support the SLT, Office Manager, Attendance Manager and staff to ensure the smooth running of the school office and departments.
Key Details
Salary: National Living Wage - £6.40 U18, £8.60 18-20, £11.44 21 and over
Working hours: 37 hours per week. Monday – Friday (term time only 38-40 weeks)
Location: Katherine Warington School, AL5 5FH
Apprenticeship Details – 16 months expected duration to complete, working towards your Level 3 Business Administration Qualification. (All learning is delivered online/ remote).
Training Provider: LMP Education (rated 8th best UK training provider)
During your role as a Business Administration Apprentice you will provide general administrative support to the Attendance Manager by updating the daily registers with absence reports. Your day to day duties will include:
- To update registers from voicemail messages, emails and telephone calls reporting students absent and to check for missing students before texting home so that the school meets its safeguarding needs.
- To liaise with parents by text and call if no information is received by parent / guardian regarding a student's absence.
- To monitor and oversee the absence email inbox, forwarding requests for leave to the Headteacher and responding to parents where appropriate and inputting planned medical appointments and requests for leave absences in the registers
- To check student's marks for every lesson, cross referencing with PL who locate missing students and ensure the registers are correct
- To ensure all afternoon registration marks are recorded correctly and all students are accounted for.
- To monitor the incoming and outgoing of students from school and to check the registers reflect this using Inventory.
- To chase up teachers for unopened / incomplete registers
- To assist with general admin / filing relating to attendance and any other task appropriate to attendance.
Desired skills & Personal qualities:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Working in a team & show initiative
- Able to manage own time effectively and demonstrate initiative including establishing priorities
- Prioritise and manage workflow whilst maintaining a flexible approach to respond to urgent requests
- Able to adhere to the school’s policies and procedures and most importantly the equal opportunities policy, child protection policy and all health & safety related policies
- Able to maintain confidentiality Able to work with minimum supervision
Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
Desired qualifications:
- Grade 4 or above in Maths & English
- Experience in an office/admin role
- Experience of Microsoft Office and Google suite
- Enhanced DBS (we expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks)
About the Employer
Katherine Warington School is a modern school, using contemporary teaching methods supported by robust academic research allied with traditional core values. Central to our vision for the school is the shared belief that young people have the right to a transformational educational experience that will enable them to fulfil their potential and realise their ambitions. Talent is evenly distributed, opportunity isn’t. They provide the highest quality teaching and learning to meet the needs and expectations of the Harpenden community. All students are natured to be fully fledged members and leaders of our democratic society, ready when they leave us as young adults to make a positive impact on the world.
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
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About Katherine Warington School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 744 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Katherine Warington School website (opens in new tab)
Katherine Warington School is a new comprehensive, co‐educational and non‐denominational academic secondary school (opened September 19) with 750 students currently (180 in each of years 7, 8, 9 and 10 – these year groups are already oversubscribed). The school will add a
further 180 students in each subsequent year and then open a 250 strong Sixth Form. By 2025 we will have grown to our capacity of 1,150 students. The school was established through the partnership of the Harpenden Secondary Schools Trust, which includes the three outstanding
schools in Harpenden: Roundwood Park, St George’s and Sir John Lawes and additional partners: the University of Hertfordshire and Rothamsted Research Centre (a world leading non‐profit agricultural science research centre).
Further details about the school, including our prospectus and virtual tour, can be found on our website: www.kwschool.co.uk
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