Interim Administrative Assistant (Attendance)
Whitby School, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO21 1LADeadline is tomorrow
Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
13 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
11 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, term time only
Contract type
- Casual
Pay scale
- £24,027 - £25,183 per annum full time equivalent
Hourly rate
- £12.45 - £13.05 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
This administrative role will allow you to play a key part in promoting a positive educational experience for our pupils.
will be improving pupil attendance through monitoring data trends and ensuring that absences are followed up, so that pastoral and senior staff can outline and help pupils overcome barriers to learning.
A core responsibility will be recording, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on pupil attendance data, attention to detail is key.
You will be a point of contact for parents/carers to ensure that attendance at school is kept as a high priority for maintaining pupil progress and pupil learning. You will need to hold strong communication skills and have emotional resilience in order to have discussions around challenging behaviors and attendance issues.
This role will allow you to contribute to the positive educational experience of our pupils.
This role is not exclusively for those who have worked administration duties for a school environment before, candidates who have worked in other sectors are encouraged to apply.
Key Skills
- Level 2 qualification or equivalent to demonstrate good literacy and numeracy skills. (Such as GCSE grade C/ 4 and above)
- Enjoy working as part of a team
- Demonstrate good communication skills both orally and in writing
- Strong computer literacy
- Excellent organisational skills with a keen attention to detail
- Able to multitask across various systems and be able to learn adapt to any software updates or changes.
What the school offers its staff
- A supportive, collaborative team who openly share ideas and best practice
- A school community that prides itself on engagement, generosity, dignity and inspiration
Further details about the role
An email will be sent to shortlisted candidates with details of the interview process /shortlisting outcome.
We do not accept CV’s
Please contact us if your need to apply in a different format.
When applying please take into account the following:
Supporting Information
The supporting information section of your application should clearly evidence your ability to meet the requirements we have outlined in the job description & person specification. This will be used to shortlist applicants for this role and therefore it is imperative that you provide evidence as requested.
References
When completing your application, please provide two employment referees. Generally, this is your current and most recent employer. Please note your referee should ideally be a previous line manager or someone in a position of authority.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We have a robust child protection policy and all staff will receive training relevant to their role at induction and throughout employment at the school. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is subject to satisfactory references and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service criminal records check for work with children. An online search may be undertaken as part of the recruitment process on information available in the public domain. Candidates should disclose anything that may be relevant in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) advertise vacancies and process applications on behalf of schools and external organisations (third parties) in North Yorkshire. NYC are not responsible for the recruitment/employment practices of third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent recruitment/employment processes.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Whitby School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 832 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Whitby School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- chloe.bullen@northyorks.gov.uk
- Phone number
- 01609 536 964
Community College for 11 - 16 year olds with a separate site for Whitby Sixth form students
Arranging a visit to Whitby School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email chloe.bullen@northyorks.gov.uk.
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