Deputy Office Manager - Attendance Lead
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College, Barking, Essex, IG11 9AG12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
24 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 35 Hours Per Week, Monday to Friday, Term time only plus ten days
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Scale 5 (Pt 12-15, £31,524-£32,931 per annum, to be pro rata'd to actual working weeks)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding, innovative and committed Senior Administrator with a focus on leading Attendance who will play a significant part in the development of the school core administrative services.
The successful candidate will have excellent IT skills, be an outstanding Administrator and have a good understanding of implementing and embedding new systems and processes along with ideas or proven strategies for improving attendance in school procedures.
The successful candidate will be able:
- To undertake a range of administrative tasks with ease, reflecting on current practice and streamline systems and processes to reduce workload and improve efficiency and effectiveness
- To work collaboratively and proactively with students and their families to ensure that children and young people can have full access to the educational opportunities offered at Barking Abbey.
- To work in partnership with key staff to monitor and improve school attendance systems and procedures
- To manage the school’s caseload of persistent absentees and non-attendees across the school.
- To encourage, enable and, where necessary, enforce the school attendance procedures of all children of school age, working with the wider family, community and external agencies.
- To promote the welfare, mental wellbeing, appropriate development and protection of children and young
- Support the Office Manager in all aspects of administration, including admissions, census, first aid/medical, Sixth Form administration, ParentPay, Free school meal administration and reception duties.
This role will be predominantly based at one campus, however there may be a need for work to be undertaken across campus offices.
What the school offers its staff
- A supportive and encouraging staff team
- The opportunity to access a wide range of CPD opportunities within and beyond school
- A school which understands the importance of staff well-being and workload management
- A positive ethos with excellent behaviour reinforced by highly visible SLT and centralised behaviour systems
Working hours will be between 07:30am-17:00pm (Shifts for this will be 7 hours a day working either 07:30- 15:30 or 09:00-17:00 to suit the operational needs of the school).
Barking Abbey is an Ofsted Outstanding heavily over-subscribed dual campus secondary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, with a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence and a supportive professional environment.
The school is located less than 10 minutes walk from Upney tube and 15 minutes from Barking mainline station.
Barking Abbey celebrates its diversity, and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. If you are interested in making a difference in young people’s lives whatever your background or history please apply.
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
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About Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2323 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- Jobs@barkingabbeyschool.co.uk
Welcome to Barking Abbey school and thank you for expressing an interest in applying for a position here.
For me there are three simple things that I want us to achieve at Barking Abbey school.
First, our motto ‘Give and Expect the best’ leads us to want to be the best in everything we do. We have some of the best results in the area, we have pupils at the best universities, we have the most pupils on apprenticeships in the entire country, we have basketball players in the best leagues and so much more. We have all of this because we push our pupils and each other to excel. All of us try to be our best every day.
Second, I firmly believe that if you can’t see it you can’t be it. We want to give our pupils the chance to see successful people of every religion, colour and background whilst they are at school. Whatever their dreams
we want to support them and provide the networks and contacts to help them to achieve.
Finally, we want our pupils to have a voice in the world. To be confident enough to express their views and also to have the knowledge to be able to make an effective contribution. The more you know the more
powerful you can be in the world.
Sir Tim Brighouse said “If a teacher makes the weather the school creates the climate.” and I firmly believe this. It is our role as a leadership team to create the best possible learning environment for our teachers
to teach in. In return we expect the best possible teaching from them and our results show this over time.
If you share our ethos and values and absolutely believe in the potential of all young people then we can offer you the chance to make a difference and change our community for the better, and look forward to receiving
your application form and welcoming you to our school.
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