SEND Admin Apprentice Level 3
Rainhill High School, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 6NY32 days remaining to apply
Job start date
29 September 2025
Closing date
3 September 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 August 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday - Friday 37 hrs per week 8.15am - 4.15pm (3.45pm on Friday)
Contract type
- Fixed term - Temporary 18 month Apprenticeship
Full-time equivalent salary
- £14,526.20 - £23,492.04 dependent on age
Pay scale
- Apprenticeship rates
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to recruit a SEND Admin Apprentice, who will work towards achieving their Level 3 qualification. The role will involve providing efficient administrative and clerical support to the SEND department and SENDCO, under the direction of the Senior SEND Administrator.
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience
Areas of work include;
- Daily management of incoming post; scanning, filing and disseminating as appropriate.
- Recording and issuing of SEND passes.
- Oversee and maintain school proformas for SEND staff to access.
- Ensure SEND teaching materials, assistive technology, and stationery are organised, tidy, and fully stocked at all times.
- Keep staff areas tidy and presentable.
- Keep student areas tidy and presentable, and support with displays where needed.
- Provide administrative support for SEND meetings (internal and external), taking notes and locating files and other information as requested.
- Type up notes of meetings and SEND Reviews etc, in order to ensure all records are kept up to date and accurate, so supporting the education of our students with SEND.
- Maintain accurate files and records of students with SEND.
- Complete administration of student referrals to outside agencies, including gathering feedback from teachers and wider staff.
- Take initial enquiries from parents/carers and outside agencies; record clearly and communicate with appropriate staff.
- Communicate information as required to parents/carers.
- Liaise with parents/carers about appointments and meeting times.
- Ensure all information about students with SEND is recorded and filed correctly so that it is available to teaching staff to support teaching and learning.
- Request and share information about student progress, including updating student pen portraits.
- Collate data for SEND students as and when required.
- Training schedule
Virtual training - remote learning.
Essential qualifications
Ability to meet the entry requirements of the Level 3 apprentice course attached to this apprenticeship and to attend and undertake the studying and course work required to complete the course.
Educated to at least GCSE standard in:
English (grade A* - C / 9 - 4)
Mathematics (grade A * - C / 9 - 4)
3 other subjects (grade A* - C / 9 - 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Ability to prioritise
- Time management
- Confidentiality
What the school offers its staff
Our School’s mission is 'In Pursuit of Excellence’ in everything that we do and our core values; Learn, Think, Contribute, Care, embody our determination to ensure that all our students receive a first class education that enables them to take their place in society confidently.
We are a popular and high achieving school on the edge of Merseyside with a very strong reputation locally and significantly over subscribed.
Company benefits
Facilities - tea, coffee, sugar and milk are provided to all staff free of charge. Transport - we offer free on-site parking at Rainhill High School. Wellbeing - Wellbeing champions coordinate a social programme with a range benefits.
Further information about the job
After this apprenticeship
- Gaining a Business Administration Level 3 qualification.
Commitment to safeguarding
Rainhill High School and Sixth Form is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people as well as promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion; where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosing & Barring Certificate and online searches as part of our Safer Recruitment & Selection Procedures.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Rainhill High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1810 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Rainhill High School website
- Email address
- jobs@rainhillhigh.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01744677205
11-18 Mixed Comprehensive 1820 on roll
Rainhill High School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form centre located in Rainhill, Merseyside, England.
The school converted to an academy under Rainhill Learning Village in March 2017.
More recently, the school has become part of the Stephenson MAT and was graded as ‘Good’ by Ofsted in February 2023. The Academy is working hard to make a difference to staff workloads by investing time, technology, and support to make Rainhill High School and Rainhill Sixth an attractive place to work.
Our vision is one of excellence for everyone, pupils and staff. We believe that by working together we can make a positive difference to children’s lives.
Stephenson Trust is currently a single school in a multi academy trust. We have several external partners, including Hope University, Ambition Institute, The Fowler Education Faculty, SSAT, Rainbow teaching school hub and the educational endowment fund. We are now seeking to expand in the next couple of years with those who share our desire to provide an excellent education
Arranging a visit to Rainhill High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jobs@rainhillhigh.org.uk.
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