Clerk to Governors

Kingsdown School, Swindon, SN2 7SH

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  3 November 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  6 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £2,224.00 - £2,428.00 Annually (Actual) Annualised hours contract

Clerk to Governors job summary

Are you interested in supporting a local school and engaging with your community in a flexible, varied and interesting role?

• This role supports our local governing body. Among other things you would be responsible for:
• The timely preparation and circulation of agendas
• Attending governing body meetings and the production of accurate minutes
• Monitoring governing body membership and attendance
• Maintaining the register of governors’ business interests
• Providing administrative support to the governing body
• Providing advice to governors on their legal and procedural duties.

The governing body generally meets in the evenings on school sites, and there are other occasional meetings during the day, but the rest of the work can be done at home at any time. Clerking for both the full governor meetings and committees and other school related functions amounts to an average of 117 hours per year. This includes attendance at meetings (up to 14 per school year) and preparation and follow-up, as well as other duties related to the governing body’s operations.

If you wish to arrange an informal chat with the Chair of Governors or have further questions regarding the role please email recruitment@kingsdownschool.co.uk.

By becoming part of our Kingsdown family, you will join a team that doesn't just work together but a team who deeply and genuinely cares. We know that staff and students thrive in a ‘healthy work culture’ and the wellbeing of staff and student outcomes is inextricably linked. We are committed to providing the best working and learning environment for all. The RLT embodies a staff charter and strong values, we uphold these values and commitments, and further build on these with our Wellbeing Strategy,.

Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.

OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our colleagues benefit from a wide variety of support including encouraged professional development opportunities, exceptional wellbeing support, free access to our gym and an excellent pension scheme. Each journey with us begins with a personalised induction programme that allows for new colleagues to feel supported, connected, welcomed and ready to make an impact from the moment you join.. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

The River Learning Trust and Kingsdown School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered

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 Kingsdown School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1029 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Kingsdown School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kingsdown-school-sn2-7sh

Kingsdown is a mixed 11–16 Secondary School located in Stratton St Margaret, Swindon. It offers a vibrant learning environment, one in which its students take great pride in both their learning, their behaviour and their individual aspirations. Our teachers combine a high level of academic expertise with excellent teaching skills and a real and deep concern for the wellbeing of each and every student. Taken together, these allow us to recruit and retain the very best teachers.

Thank you for taking an interest in working with us at Kingsdown School. You are joining us at a very exciting time in our school’s history. At the end of January 2020, we had a two day Ofsted Inspection and were judged to be Good in all five categories under the new framework. This marked the end to over a decade of being judged Requires Improvement.

Kingsdown is a school that has been on a transformational journey. We had a two year P8 trend of -0.50 and this year we secured a P8 score of +0.04. We have also recently been shortlisted for the TES Secondary School of the Year award. Along with the Ofsted judgement, this transformation is truly wonderful for our students, our school and community. Now we are looking for talented and experienced colleagues to join our team as we journey to Outstanding.

Our vision for our school is “a school of excellence bursting with pride and ambition” and our mission statement is that we “champion each and every student”.

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