L2 Admin Assistant

Birches Green Primary School, Birmingham, B24 9SR

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  February 2025

• Closing date

  6 January 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 December 2024

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: £3,475.00 - £3,752.00 Annually (Actual)

L2 Admin Assistant job summary

Are you a highly motivated, professional, and forward thinking administrator with a desire to make a difference?

This is an essential role in the operation of our growing school and includes responsibility for:

- Running a busy reception and being a point of contact for visitors

- Supporting with outgoing and incoming calls to parents/carers, professionals and businesses

- General office administrative duties

- Managing accurate records of pupils including pupil premium funding

- Updating management information systems

- Contributing to a team culture and stellar office environment

We are looking for a friendly individual who has the passion and energy to work in our busy school team.

Most importantly, you will help drive on the community’s vision of a primary school and become part of a cohesive and committed office team that serves all pupils and staff.

You will need to have excellent communication, organisational and customer service skills and be competent in the use of a variety of IT systems including Google.

A knowledge of Arbor and/or ParentPay would help but we will provide all the necessary training.

We are a forward thinking team, and require a colleague who can work collaboratively with others and be a welcoming presence for visitors and our Birches Green community.

You will need to be able to form positive relationships with our children, staff, parents, governors and visitors.

You will need to be flexible, with a willingness to work across all sites of the school, responding to priorities and problem solving as required.

We can offer you the opportunity to join a supportive and welcoming staff, including an experienced and hard working leadership team.

Birches Green schools have supportive and engaged parents and well behaved children.

For more information about the school and to see our Vision and Values, please visit our website - www.birchesgreen.co.uk

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

Birches Green Infant and Junior Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Applicants will be subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and other vetting checks.

The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce.

This is an internal vacancy

We are looking for someone who has a L2 administrative qualification or equivalent (or willing to work towards) to work Friday's 8am till 11:30am and 1:30pm till 4pm. This is to start in February 2025 and is fixed term until 31st August 2025 with a possibility to extend.

*Subject to job evaluation*

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

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.

About Birches Green Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 418 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Birches Green Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/birches-green-primary-school (opens in new tab)

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