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  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    16 January 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    9 January 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£24,404.00 Annually (FTE) L2

Clerical and Welfare Assistant job summary

The role will be for 27 hours per week -

Monday – 8.30am – 4.00pm with a half an hour lunch break

Tuesday – Friday – 10.00am – 4.00pm with an hour lunch break

Clerical Assistant

Maintain the financial and administrative systems within the school office. These include procedures associated with the school fund, processing invoices, maintaining petty cash, ordering stationery and other resources as requested.

Maintain computerised systems for pupil data, achievement records, admissions and attendance; verifying data, identifying and rectifying anomalies and producing all reports and management information as required.

Staff the school switchboard and reception responding to queries from parents and visitors, taking messages and passing calls to colleagues effectively and efficiently.

Undertake word processing of school correspondence, procedures and documents to support the Headteacher and teaching staff of the school, ensuring that deadlines are met and confidentiality maintained at all times.

Support class teachers with photocopying, organisation of resources, and other administrative requirements.

Provide cover, as requested in the medical room, contacting parents in the event of injury, sickness, administering basic first aid and maintaining all necessary records

Undertake general clerical duties including opening and distribution of mail, filing, photocopying, maintaining school social media, e mailing etc.

Make organisational arrangements as required such as those in relation to school visits and trips, school photographer, medical checks.

Welfare Assistant

Provide First Aid and pastoral care and assistance for children who are upset, ill, injured, or require personal hygiene-related care in order to minimise distress. Control and administer medicines and contact parents as appropriate ensuring at all times that the relevant rules and procedures are adhered to.

Keep up to date and accurate records of pupil sickness, drugs administration, inoculation, school meals etc.

Maintain stocks of First Aid materials and stationery, above minimum order levels, raise orders for these, seek school authorisation and ensure that proper procedures are followed.

Liaise with the School Nurse and visiting Medical Services in relation to routine medical screenings and institute the necessary arrangements within the school.

Contribute to and support plans to meet the needs of pupils with special educational needs, working with class teachers and the SENCO as necessary.

Accompany pupils to hospital, in the event of an emergency and ensure that parents/carers are informed.

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.

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About Warden Hill Infant School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 7
Education phase
Primary
School size
350 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 7

School location

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