School Business Assistant
Chaddesden Park Primary School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 6JW44 days remaining to apply
Start date details
6th January 2025
Closing date
25 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £10,956.00 Annually (Actual) Please note the salary quoted is for 18.5 hours per week, Working Wednesday PM, Thursday and Friday. This role is term time only.
School Business Assistant job summary
Chaddesden Park Primary School are looking to appoint an exceptionally organised School Business Assistant who has experience in leading administration in a school setting or busy office environment. We are looking for a candidate who is motivated and can keep up with the busy demands of day to day school life, whilst still maintaining a friendly and approachable first point of call for our families and visitors.
This role would also involve working alongside a part time School Business Assistant meaning that good communication would be crucial to an excellent working partnership. The working hours are non negotiable. Wednesday 12-4:30pm, Thursday 8:30am-4:30pm and Friday 8:30am-4:00pm.
The successful candidate should be confident and familier in;
Administrator
- IT systems including but not limited to Microsoft Office
- open and prioritising paper and electronic mail for staff, forwarding to the appropriate people as necessary
- ensuring the effective collection of dinner money and daily entries into the class registers.
- completing and promoting free school meal authorisations.
- using school transfer via the internet and post for admissions and leavers
- maintaining up to date electronic diaries for the school and parents through the website
- organising and maintaining filing systems for pupil records
- ensuring all electronic records of pupil contact details are up to date at all times
- administer first aid to children and staff where necessary
- completing the pupil workforce census
- recording of incidents including accident forms
- inputting end of key stage data
Finance
- inputting orders and invoices
- inputting Early Years Funding onto Portal
- ensuring the proper collection, reconciliation and banking of any monies received by the school
HR
- process payroll data ensuring accurate payments
- act as the school's data protection officer
- maintaining the single central record
- being responsible for the completion of all new starter paperwork and other documentation relating to staff employment
Context
The descriptions below of our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ define the work we are developing as a Trust. They are an aspiration, and we are always striving to achieve them.
We ensure our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ hold us to account for the work we do.
Why do we exist?
Our purpose is to ensure every LEARNER has choices about their future
Our first job is to support and extend learning for pupils to provide them with the skills and knowledge to make those choices.
Our second job is to make sure no child is ignored, no family is unsupported and no life is wasted, by providing intervention at the earliest opportunity.
Our responsibility to education is to provide an environment where practitioners can collaborate, learn from each other, take risks and reflect.
How will we act?
We will use our purpose as a driver for our culture, ensuring we are;
Connected (sharing information openly, broadly and deliberately)
Helpful (embracing servant leadership and use initiative to solve the problem)
Organised (employing efficient strategies and trust colleagues to deliver)
Informed (asking coaching questions to understand what is happening)
Candid (disagreeing openly and compassionately)
Effective (only retaining our best elements and looking for continuous improvement)
Simple (avoiding complexity and increasing clarity)
What is our strategy?
We will use our culture to ensure the work of the Trust;
Focuses on creating capacity (time and resources) for schools
Ensures support is agile, providing intervention at the earliest opportunity
Supports schools to employ and invest in the best educators for children
Seeks continuous improvement and disruptive innovation
In return we offer being part of a friendly team who value our staff members and are a hardworking and enthusiastic team with the desire and skills to improve outcomes.
As a school we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
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.
About Chaddesden Park Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 262 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
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