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School Business Assistant

Somercotes Infant and Nursery School, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 4LY

This job expired on 3 October 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  13 October 2024

• Closing date

  3 October 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,467.00 - £23,112.00 Annually (Actual) The salary quoted is for the actual number of hours worked (37). The role is also term time only.

School Business Assistant job summary

Somercotes Infants 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.

The successful candidate should be confident and familiar in;

Administrator
- IT systems including but not limited to Microsoft office
- ensuring the effective collection of dinner money and daily entries into the class registers
- open and prioritising paper and electronic mail for staff, forwarding to the appropriate people as necessary
- 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
- managing and monitoring licences, insurances and contracts on behalf of the school
- ensuring the proper collection, reconciliation and banking of any monies received by the school
- completing month end procedures including income, VAT returns and banking
- authorising orders and invoices

HR
- being responsible for the completion of all new starter paperwork and other documentation relating to staff employment
- maintaining the single central record
- act as the school's data protection officer
- process payroll data ensuring accurate payments

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

As this post is working with children we will need apply for an enhanced DBS check

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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About Somercotes Infant and Nursery School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 111 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Somercotes Infant and Nursery School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/somercotes-infant-and-nursery-school (opens in new tab)

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