Pupil Support Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Tameside, SK14 1AL |
| Cwmni: | inploi |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 75769488 |
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Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade C. SCP 5 £17,765 - SCP 6 £18,047 (Part time)
Hours Per Week: 25 hours
Base Location: Hyde Town Hall, Corporation Street, Hyde, SK14 1AL
Closing Date: 5th December 2025
Assessment Date: 8th December 2025
The Role
We are seeking to recruit an experienced and motivated person to join our busy School Admissions Team. You will play a vital role in ensuring that parents who apply to transfer their children to other schools are allocated places quickly and efficiently.
Based within Access Service in Education, you will liaise between parents and schools to allocate school places, record school transfers using the Capita ONE system and ensure records are accurate. You will liaise with the Transfer Coordinator on difficult cases and refer pupils whose places need to be allocated under the In Year Fair Access Protocol to the appropriate senior officer.
You will be required to carry out general administrative tasks such as preparing accurate files for school appeals, actioning waiting lists and validating information provided by schools and parents.
About You
The successful candidate will need excellent communication, customer care and IT skills and have good attention to detail.
You will work 25 hours a week over 4 days: Mon 9.25 4.00, Tue 9.25 4.00, Wed 9.25-4.00, Thu non-working day, Fri 9.25 4.00.
Applicants will
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
Message from Jill Colbert, Director of Children’s Services.
“I joined the council at the beginning of 2025 and was instantly charmed by the warmth, openness, and energy of colleagues.
“I came to Tameside for one reason; because I know we can do fantastic things for our families here.
“We’re a children’s service on a significant improvement journey. We know what needs to be different for our children and families and we’re ambitious to deliver that change.
“We have a growing range of specialist services for children, where you can test and grow your skills and practice. We have a Social Work Academy that is led by people who bring passion to learning and who know that the DCS’ of the future are right in front of them. We are working on our progression pathways so that staying in Tameside is rewarded and recognised. We have investment in innovation and improvement from the council so that we can grow services and support for families that we can sustain, from family hubs through to complex safeguarding.
“I am so certain that we can build a proud, inclusive and safe climate for great practice to flourish in Tameside. I’d love you to join me on the journey here at Team Tameside.”
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel.
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Michele Roberts on 0161 342 4004 or schooladmissions@tameside.gov.uk
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