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Executive Assistant to the Headteacher

Queen Elizabeth School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 9AG

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• Start date details

  December 2024

• Closing date

  21 October 2024 at 3pm

• Date listed

  17 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: TBC

Executive Assistant to the Headteacher job summary

Be part of our journey…

Since relaunching in September 2021 with a new name and a new ethos, Queen Elizabeth School is quickly establishing itself as a centre for excellence. We are on a mission to “empower our students to achieve academic excellence through aspiration and innovation”. With the support of a highly ambitious leadership team and surrounded by colleagues who are passionate about the whole student experience, and with our new sixth form, QE6 which opened in September 2023, now is a fantastic time to join our forward thinking school.

Whatever their role in the school, all of our colleagues share a passion for learning and working with the next generation.

Situated on the Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire border and close to the market town of Hitchin, the school also benefits from being within five minutes drive of idyllic countryside locations, yet being 5 minutes from the M1 and London Luton Airport.

We are now looking for an Executive Assistant to the Headteacher to join our team. This is a key position within the school as we look to build on the impressive improvements we have already made. This role is essential in assisting the Headteacher. Performing all necessary tasks requested by the Headteacher. and SLT.Undertaking a full range of secretarial and administrative duties to the Headteacher and SLT ensuring the efficient and effective running of the Headteacher’s office and daily business.

Find out more about Queen Elizabeth School, from the voices of our school community here https://www.qesluton.co.uk/Choose-QES/.

We welcome visits from all prospective staff to Queen Elizabeth School.

To arrange a visit or a telephone conversation to discuss the role further, please contact hr@qesluton.co.uk

Key duties

• • Act as a first point of contact within the school for staff, governors, councillors, parents and others seeking contact with the Headteacher

  • To assist the Headteacher in organising his/her administrative workload recommending items to be dealt with in order of priority

  • Handle all confidential correspondence with discretion. Liaise with senior management concerning priorities, deadlines, policies and procedures

  • Arrange meetings, prepare necessary documentation and when required, take minutes. Ensure that matters arising from meetings are dealt with by the appropriate people within agreed timescales

  • Ensure that the Headteacher responds to particular approaches within timescales identified in any agreed priority action list

  • Maintain the diary for the Headteacher, arranging appointments as appropriate, and ensuring that he/she is adequately briefed on matters to be discussed in advance of each meeting

  • Care for his/her visitors including the provision of refreshments

  • Assemble and prepare papers required by the Headteacher to attend meetings, prepare reports, or reply to requests for information

  The successful candidate will

  • Share our values of ambition, integrity, determination and kindness

  • Hold an absolute commitment to exceptional standards

  • Be a consummate professional

  • Be a team player with an understanding that excellence can only be achieved by working together

  • Have a passion for their subject and ensuring students progress

  Benefits

  • Work in a state of the art building with outstanding IT, sporting and performance facilities

  • Excellent opportunities for progression- we will always seek to promote from within in the first instance

  • Outstanding professional development opportunities, both from our internal CPD programme and through our partnership organisation

  • Season ticket loan

  • Use of our on site fitness suite

  • Bike to Work scheme

  • Ample staff parking and excellent transport links

  • Subsidised staff accommodation available

  Start date: December 2024

  Salary: Support Staff Scale – to be agreed

  Job Role: Permanent, Full-time

  Recruitment Timeline:

  Position advertised: 17 October 2024

  Closing date for applications: 28 October 2024

  Final Shortlisting: TBC

  Interviews:TBC

  We reserve the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.

  Safeguarding

  Queen Elizabeth School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

  The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.

  Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as: “Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”

  The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.

  
  

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.

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About Queen Elizabeth School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1264 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Queen Elizabeth School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/queen-elizabeth-school-luton

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