Clerk to Governors
Eastbrook Primary Academy, Brighton, West Sussex, BN42 4NF16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
7 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 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
- £23,500.00 - £23,893.00 Annually (FTE) NJC 37 - SCP 5-6 (£23,500 to £23,893FTE), equivalent to £12.18 to £12.38 per hour - (5-10 hours per half term) - Term time only (TTO)
Clerk to Governors job summary
Eastbrook Primary Academy wish to appoint an experienced and independent part-time Clerk to Governors.
About the role
- The purpose of this role is to keep Eastbrook Primary Academy's governing board running smoothly through efficient administration and the ability to offer timely advice.
- You will offer vital support to our governors to ensure that that can fulfil their statutory responsibilities.
- The Clerk will be responsible for advising the governing body on constitutional and procedural matters, duties and powers and will work within the current legislative framework. He/she will secure the continuity of governing body business and observe confidentiality.
- You will work closely with the school leadership team to ensure that records are well maintained.
- You will minute governing board meetings and any appropriate committee meetings as well as clerking panels that might be convened.
- You will work independently to research policies and procedures that will be critical for the board to follow.
- If you are looking for a position that offers flexibility, variety and the opportunity to learn new skills, then this could be the role for you
We are looking for candidates who:
- Can take accurate minutes and maintain efficient record keeping systems
- Have good attention to detail
- Have the ability and willingness to work individually using their own initiative
- Have experience of writing agendas and servicing meetings
- Have a willingness to work at times convenient to the governing board including
Why work with us
There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:
▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.
▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development
▶️ A support package for staff wellbeing
You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.
Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.
For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.
All information is stored securely and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy.
The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.
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 are not accepted.
About Eastbrook Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 406 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Eastbrook Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
School location
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