Staff Cover & CPD Administrator
St Laurence School, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, BA15 1DZ18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
8 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: 30 – 32.5 hours per week 39 weeks per year (term time only) Monday to Friday core hours must be 07.00–10.00 each day, with flexibility around additional hours.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £33,366 and £35,235
Actual salary
- Between £23,140 and £24,436 for 30 hours per week
Pay scale
- NJC Grade I SCP 18-20
Hourly rate
- £17.29 - £18.26
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to recruit a Staff Cover and CPD Administrator to ensure the smooth and efficient deployment of cover arrangements for teaching and other staff, ensuring that all lessons have cover for the day. Experience of working with cover in a school is desirable, but not essential. The postholder will be the first point of contact to receive telephone calls from members of staff who are absent from school. There will be occasions (especially for sickness) when this will take place in the early morning. The postholder will be required to start by 7am, Monday to Friday.
Main duties will include:
- To be first point of contact to receive telephone calls from members of staff who are absent from school.
- Ensure cover is in place for staff absence because of sickness, on pre-planned courses, trips and events and hospital appointments etc.
- Manage and deploy the school’s own cover supervisors and/or external/internal supply teachers.
- Produce the daily/weekly lists of staff absences and arrangements for cover provision. This has to be available for staff by 8.15-8.30am each morning.
- Input absence data into Bromcom (Schools’ Information Management System) modules. Produce reports as appropriate.
- Distribute the cover to supply staff for the day.
- Pass approved Student Activity and Staff CPD forms to the Attendance Officer to enter in the School’s electronic calendars as required.
- To ensure that all new external supply teachers have been successfully cleared through the Disclosure and Barring Service.
- Liaise with the Director of Finance and Operations (Cover) to respond to ‘emergency’ cover during the school day e.g. when staff fall ill during the day.
What the school offers its staff
Further details about the role
Commitment to safeguarding
St Laurence School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants will be subject to a full Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobapp@st-laurence.com
CVs are not accepted.
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About St Laurence School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England/Christian, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1374 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- St Laurence School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobapp@st-laurence.com
- Phone number
- 01225 309506
St Laurence is an 11-18 co-educational comprehensive Church academy situated in the market town of Bradford on Avon. The school dates back to 1980 when Fitzmaurice Grammar School merged with Trinity Secondary Modern but preserves its longer-standing heritage through the work of two foundations (Diocese of Salisbury, Fitzmaurice Educational Trust) which are represented on the Governing Body. St Laurence has a strong reputation with a great emphasis placed on social, moral and spiritual development, as well as academic. We have approximately 1400 students on roll with over 260 in our sixth form.
We provide a huge range of extracurricular activities and encourage students to stay on after school. We are proud of our facilities and the level of expertise our staff display. We have an ongoing programme of investment in buildings and facilities.
Our students come from a variety of social backgrounds and encompass a wide variety of abilities. Relationships with our parents are good and we have a committed PTA known as the SLSA (St Laurence School Association). The local community regards the School highly and gives us considerable support. In turn, the School provides venues and facilities for many community activities and events. Our exam results are good. Student attainment is well above the national average with positive Progress Scores year on year. Our Ofsted in December 2022 deemed us Good and our SIAMS inspection in March 2022 graded us as Excellent in all Areas.
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