Clerk

Epping Forest Schools Partnership Trust, Loughton, IG10 3HE

17 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  17 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  30 September 2025

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: You will be paid between £220 and £260 per Local Governing Body Meeting depending on experience and £165 per LGB Staff Pay Panel meeting. This sum is inclusive of travelling and subsistence costs.
• Additional allowances:

  You will be paid between £220 and £260 per Local Governing Body Meeting depending on experience and £165 per LGB Staff Pay Panel meeting. This sum is inclusive of travelling and subsistence costs.

Clerk job summary

The Epping Forest Schools Partnership Trust (EFSPT) wishes to appoint a well-organised, efficient Clerk to provide support and guidance to our schools' Local Governing Committees. The EFSPT Clerking Team is briefed and supported by the Head of Governance.

Previous clerking experience is desirable, along with knowledge of the education sector, although training and support will be provided.

This flexible, part-time role is term-time only and primarily home-based with a requirement to travel to school for Governors’ meetings when required. The ability to work flexible hours is important, including attendance at evening meetings which may be held virtually or at our schools. There is the requirement to clerk approximately six Governing Body meetings per year per school. You may also be asked to clerk any ad hoc committees or panels the Governing Committee is required to convene.

You will be paid between £220 and £260 per Local Governing Body Meeting depending on experience and £165 per LGB Staff Pay Panel meeting. This sum is inclusive of travelling and subsistence costs.

You will be allocated to particular schools with whom you will have the opportunity to to build a positive working relationship. You will be expected to attend all of their meetings throughout the year (dates provided well in advance) but may also be asked to to cover sickness or clashes for colleagues across the Trust so flexibility would be an advantage. At this point we are looking for someone to clerk two of our schools but there may be opportunities to take on additional schools in the future.

Your general responsibilities will include:

• Attending and minuting Governing Committee meetings

• Working effectively with the Chair and Headteacher prior to each meeting to adapt the Trust's template agenda

• Distributing papers within agreed timescales

• Advising the governing body on procedural matters

• Preparing accurate minutes of Governing Committee meetings

• Recording decisions accurately and objectively with timescales for action

• Attending termly briefings with the Clerking Team and Head of Governance

• Collating paperwork for the induction of new Governors

• Maintaining an accurate record of Governor Terms of office and business interests throughout the year

You will:

• Have good communication, IT and literacy skills

• Be well organised and able to take comprehensive and accurate minutes

• Have the ability to work flexibly

• Be able to attend some daytime but mostly evening meetings

• Have the time to support the Local Governing Committee outside of the meetings

• Maintain confidentiality when required

Epping Forest Schools Partnership Trust (EFSPT) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful DBS check and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed. Online searches are conducted on all shortlisted candidates. EFSPT is committed to equality, and to making fair and equitable treatment an integral part of everything we do.

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.

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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 Epping Forest Schools Partnership Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/epping-forest-schools-partnership-trust

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