12 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    January 2025

  • Closing date

    3 January 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    17 December 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: 36 hours per week, 39 weeks per year.

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£27,729.00

Actual salary

£23,719.09

Pay scale

Grade 2, Scale Point 3

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for someone who:

  • Reliable and conscientious pastoral leader with high expectations in line with the school;
  • Demonstrate great communication skills with all within the school community;
  • Neat appearance in line with the school policy;
  • Ability to work as part of a successful team and work effectively under pressure;
  • Have the determination and resilience to ensure that all students are challenged in all aspects of school life.

Areas of responsibility and guidance:

Reprographics:

  • Responsibility for photocopier machines within the school; duplicating and collating for all staff members on a daily basis.
  • Overseeing copying machines to ensure that they are stacked with paper and in good working order. Stacking paper first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
  • Checking all form trays in the staff room are replenished daily.
  • Ordering all supplies for reprographics.
  • Maintaining a monthly log on an Excel spreadsheet of the number of copies used, each month, on staffroom and reprographic machines and passing these figures to the Finance Assistant. Reports to be completed on the first day of the month.
  • Organising the servicing and ongoing repair of equipment.
  • Maintaining an up-to-date filing system of all work reproduced from teachers and admin staff on a daily basis.

Marketing:

  • Assisting all departments with their marketing requirements ensuring delivery of key messages in line with the academy’s brand, strategy and mission
  • Support the production of the parent communications, ensuring that articles convey the school’s brand, ethos and key messages. This will include liaison with staff to source articles and images
  • Maintaining the school’s social media to promote the school, ensuring that the school maintains a continuous stream of news.

Publicising events on the academy’s sites aimed at pupils, parents and teachers in order to enhance recruitment:

  • Organising a photo library of academy activities.
  • Producing materials for ad hoc events
  • Photography/Video
  • To keep all imagery updated for use in marketing campaigns as required.
  • Reviewing current marketing strategies and suggesting improvements.
  • Keeping up-to-date with the newest channels of communication and marketing.
  • Ensure compliance with the UK GDPR, including ensuring that social media, photography, website and collateral are in line with legislation

First Aid:

  • Dealing with all sick students reporting to the medical room, keeping a log of name, form tutor, reason for attending medical and what time student went back to lesson or was sent home.
  • Dealing with accidents for both staff and students and keep Line Manager informed.
  • Completing an accident form when needed and maintain a current First Aid Certificate.
  • Maintaining supplies for first aid.
  • Ensuring the student Medical Register is kept up to date.
  • Liaising with parents/carers on all accidents and when necessary for sickness.
  • Supporting students with more complex medical needs, e.g. epilepsy, diabetes.

Other Duties:

  • Opening the daily post and distributing to staff via pigeonholes.
  • Distributing internal post between Reception / Staffroom and General Office at regular intervals during the day.
  • Making sure all the trays are clear before leaving the building.
  • Assisting with administration work in the General Office as appropriate.
  • Participate in development and training opportunities.
  • Covering Reception daily for break / lunch and for staff absences and where necessary.

Support for the School:

  • Being aware of and complying with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health and safety, security and confidentiality, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person;
  • Being aware of and supporting inclusivity and ensuring all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop;
  • Contributing to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school;
  • Appreciating and supporting the role of other professionals;
  • Attending relevant meetings as required;
  • Participating in training and other learning activities and performance development as required;

Personal Qualities:

  • Reliable and conscientious pastoral leader with high expectations in line with the school;
  • Demonstrate great communication skills with all within the school community;
  • Neat appearance in line with the school policy;
  • Ability to work as part of a successful team and work effectively under pressure;
  • Have the determination and resilience to ensure that all students are challenged in all aspects of school life.

What the school offers its staff

We offer excellent working conditions with key benefits that include:

  • Cycle to Work scheme;
  • Significant departmental investment;
  • Staff Mentoring;
  • Staff car park on-site;
  • Fitness Suite (newly refurbished);
  • A strong focus on the professional development of all staff within our school;
  • A dedicated staff wellbeing programme.

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to principalspa@shirley.croydon.sch.uk

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About Shirley High School Performing Arts College

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
Secondary
School size
826 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19

11-18 Co-educational Secondary School

School location

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