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Admin Assistant
| Posting date: | 20 September 2024 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 October 2024 |
| Location: | Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS15 4BJ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6ad09fa2-2391-4e7f-8f9f-17c03e1b75ce |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Scholes (Elmet) Primary School (part of Sphere Federation) is looking for an enthusiastic and conscientious part time admin assistant (25 hrs per week) to join our friendly school.
Hours of work will be 8.45am – 1.45pm Monday to Friday, which includes one hour out of the office between 12.10pm and 1.10pm each day as a lunchtime assistant, supervising our children.
For our children, we’re a happy and healthy place to learn. For our staff, we’re a happy and healthy place to work.
We are seeking to appoint someone who shares our vision of developing this inspiring environment and who contributes towards the positive ethos of our school. Our staff and governors work hard to maintain and develop schools with an environment of inspiration and fun, where our children can live and learn in a happy and safe environment.
The successful candidate will need to be a friendly and calm first point of contact for our parents/carers and visitors to the school. You’ll have the motivation to work well under direction, as part of a team and using your own initiative, as well as being able to respond quickly to the changing needs of the school and/or interruptions from different members of our school community. You’ll also need a good eye for detail and excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
You will be required to:
• deal with telephone and face to face enquiries from internal and external customers
• manage attendance
• record dinner orders and liaise with the kitchen
• use ICT applications (SIMS, Word, Excel)
• collect, record and bank income for dinner money, school clubs, holiday clubs and educational visits
• prepare written communications
• order and monitor stock supplies
• work with others to help sustain work organisation and effectiveness.
The post is term time only.
What the school offers its staff
For children and staff alike, Sphere Federation has:
• A perfect balance of care and support with high expectations
• A leadership team dedicated to attainment, achievement and enjoyment
• Friendly, welcoming staff
• A great atmosphere and ethos which promotes inclusion and co-operation
• A commitment to diversity and a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds
• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting welfare and safety (thorough checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including enhanced DBS checks)
There will be a 6-month probationary period.
Closing date – 11 October 2024 at 12 noon
Further details about the role
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website or see here.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of all unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure & Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
Scholes (Elmet) Primary School (part of Sphere Federation) is looking for an enthusiastic and conscientious part time admin assistant (25 hrs per week) to join our friendly school.
Hours of work will be 8.45am – 1.45pm Monday to Friday, which includes one hour out of the office between 12.10pm and 1.10pm each day as a lunchtime assistant, supervising our children.
For our children, we’re a happy and healthy place to learn. For our staff, we’re a happy and healthy place to work.
We are seeking to appoint someone who shares our vision of developing this inspiring environment and who contributes towards the positive ethos of our school. Our staff and governors work hard to maintain and develop schools with an environment of inspiration and fun, where our children can live and learn in a happy and safe environment.
The successful candidate will need to be a friendly and calm first point of contact for our parents/carers and visitors to the school. You’ll have the motivation to work well under direction, as part of a team and using your own initiative, as well as being able to respond quickly to the changing needs of the school and/or interruptions from different members of our school community. You’ll also need a good eye for detail and excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
You will be required to:
• deal with telephone and face to face enquiries from internal and external customers
• manage attendance
• record dinner orders and liaise with the kitchen
• use ICT applications (SIMS, Word, Excel)
• collect, record and bank income for dinner money, school clubs, holiday clubs and educational visits
• prepare written communications
• order and monitor stock supplies
• work with others to help sustain work organisation and effectiveness.
The post is term time only.
What the school offers its staff
For children and staff alike, Sphere Federation has:
• A perfect balance of care and support with high expectations
• A leadership team dedicated to attainment, achievement and enjoyment
• Friendly, welcoming staff
• A great atmosphere and ethos which promotes inclusion and co-operation
• A commitment to diversity and a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds
• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting welfare and safety (thorough checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including enhanced DBS checks)
There will be a 6-month probationary period.
Closing date – 11 October 2024 at 12 noon
Further details about the role
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website or see here.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of all unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure & Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.