Office Administrator

Lime Academy Forest Approach, Romford, Essex, RM3 9YA

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  4 June 2024 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  30 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £30,963.00 - £33,438.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Points 14-19 (salary will be pro rata for TTO working)

Office Administrator job summary

Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 8 schools over 10 locations across Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and four all-through special schools, with 2400 pupils and over 700 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure:

Learners are safe and enjoy learning

Everyone feels included, respected, and valued

An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood

Employee potential is recognised and invested in

The Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.

We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure.

Overview of the role:

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to:

As an administrator you are a key member of the school’s office team responsible for ensuring there is efficient, effective organisation and administration of school business processes, procedures, and policies. Delivering the best possible service to all stakeholders to facilitate an efficient and effective safe environment and teaching and learning across the school.

The office team are the main and first point of contact for visitors/callers to the school and as such are pivotal in projecting the schools positive, welcoming ethos and values. They are therefore, expected to demonstrate exemplary customer service and a can-do approach to both internal and external customers whilst dealing with potential emotive, sensitive and contentious issues. Under the guidance of the SBM, the primary objective of this role is to provide comprehensive administrative support for the school contributing to the smooth, effective, and efficient running of the school office.

The post holder will be part of our school support function of the school and play a large part in delivering a high-quality education to the learners that attend our schools.

Please contact Coral De Courcy (School Business Manager) on 01708 988346 or email limeacademyforestapproach.office@limetrust.org discuss the role further.

Applications will be reviewed as submitted and candidates could be called for interview prior to the closing date.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References will be taken up before appointment.

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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Visas cannot be sponsored.

About Lime Academy Forest Approach

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 19
• School size: 133 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Lime Academy Forest Approach website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lime-academy-forest-approach (opens in new tab)

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