Clerk to the Governing Body
Tower Hill Community Primary School, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6NB23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
28 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
28 January 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
- £30,599.00 Annually (FTE) £30,559.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 8: £15.84 - £17.29 per hour, for an average of 90 hours per Annum.
Clerk to the Governing Body job summary
Tower Hill Community Primary School, Part of The River Learning Trust, Oxford, OX28 6NB
Fixed Term - to August 2025 - likely to become permanent. - 90 hours per year - term time only - 2.5 hours per week
Grade 8: £15.84 - £17.29 per hour. Home working with attendance at evening meetings.
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to help realise our vision for Tower Hill Community Primary School? We are particularly interested in receiving applications from candidates with experience working as a Clerk to Governors or as an Administrator in a school. Do you want a role where you will make a significant difference in children’s lives and futures? Tower Hill Community Primary School needs an excellent practitioner with vision and a passion for working with our children. There couldn't be a better time to join our school - with the arrival of a new Headteacher in November 2025, we are a school that is now firmly on a journey of continuous improvement.
Are you interested in supporting a local school and engaging with your community? Do you have basic administrative skills, good writing ability and an eye for detail? Would you like to gain new skills in a flexible, varied, interesting role?
Can you work within the Tower Hill governing body to support excellent education opportunities for our children? If so, we can offer the right candidate enthusiastic children, passionate staff and Governors. Our leaders are ambitious for the staff, children and wider school community and are committed to your continued professional development and learning.
Visitors comment on the warm atmosphere in the school. Our children are friendly, enthusiastic, and welcoming. They strive to do their best and enjoy attending school. We offer candidates the opportunity to join our supportive and motivated team of staff and governors, which offers excellent opportunities for professional development.
We have a vacancy for a clerk to support our local governing body. Among other things you would be responsible for:
The timely 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 but the rest of the work can be done at home at any time. At the moment meetings are held virtually but in due course some of these will take place at the school.
Clerking for both the full governor meetings and committees in the school amounts to approximately 95 hours per year including attendance at meetings (potentially up to 14 per school year) and preparation and follow-up, as well as other duties related to the governing body’s operations.
We are interested in receiving applications from experienced clerks but we would also like to hear from anyone who might not have clerking experience but would like to train as one, as we can offer full training for this role.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation with Charley Eaglestone, Headteacher or Judith Pettersen (Chair of Governors) about the role before applying, please email jhodson@rtowerhillschool.org.uk or telephone 01993 702599
Our school is part of the River Learning Trust: 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. All of the schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together and by our commitment to our 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 employees benefit from a wide variety of support, including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust and the benefits you can access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The River Learning Trust and Rose Hill Primary 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 its 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. Please see our website for up-to-date policies, including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
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
Commitment to safeguarding
The River Learning Trust and Tower Hill 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.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
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 Tower Hill Community Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 205 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
School location
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