13 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 January 2025

  • Closing date

    5 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    21 November 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

NJC 19-22

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you a skilled and adaptable administrator? Are you committed to supporting the work of a school to provide the best possible provision for students? Do you thrive on working as part of a team where every day is different and presents a new challenge? If so then this could be the job for you!

We are seeking to appoint a Senior Administrator to work as an additional member of the school Data Team. This is a new role and has scope to develop further in the future.

The successful candidate will play a key role to support effective administration in school including supporting school reception, marketing, aspects of finance management as well as general administration work. We require staff who are excited by this opportunity and who are ready to embrace this challenge, supporting us in delivering a great local school for our local community. For all of us, staff, Governors, children and parents/carers, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a difference to students’ lives.

What the school offers its staff

The school has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted, most recently in January 2023:

“Blue Coat Church of England Academy is an inclusive school where kindness flourishes. The school’s values include wisdom, service, endurance and hope. The school’s culture is rooted in these values. There are positive relationships between staff and pupils. Staff know their pupils well, and pupils feel cared for. Staff have high expectations, and pupils live up to these.”

Blue Coat Church of England Academy is one of the oldest educational establishments in Walsall, is well-respected and valued by the community it serves. We operate on a very collaborative approach to school improvement working with a range of other schools and nationally recognised trainers. The school is very proud of the family ethos which pervades all aspects of its work, which is grounded in Christian values. The school has recently been awarded the Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award, demonstrating our commitment to embedding the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into our ethos and curriculum.

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to applications@bluecoatacademy.org

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About Blue Coat Church of England Academy

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
932 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
01922720558

Comprehensive Church of England Academy.

Arranging a visit to Blue Coat Church of England Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email st-mcfarlane-s@bluecoatacademy.org.

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