Required from 1 September 2025
Term Time Only; 25 Hours Per Week (Monday to Friday 07:00am until 12:00pm)
Governors of this successful and oversubscribed 11-16 High School are seeking to appoint a committed, motivated and enthusiastic part-time Staff Cover and Attendance Administrator to join our administration team. This is a newly created post and the salary grading is pending job evaluation. The successful applicant will be employed to work 25 hours per week (term time only).
The Staff Cover and Attendance Admin post will involve organising the daily cover of absent staff, sourcing of agency staff to provide cover and managing a £150,000 budget for this area. You will also be responsible for monitoring / recording staff attendance and organising attendance management meetings. In addition to the Cover and Attendance duties, there will be some personnel duties including management of DBS clearance, updating the Single Central Record and liaising with the Local Authority on new starters, contractual changes and leavers.
The Elton High School is a significantly oversubscribed school with a tradition of excellence. We have a history of high achievement with results regularly placing us as amongst the highest performing schools in Bury LA and amongst the top proportion of schools in the country. The successful applicant will be part of a fantastic departmental team, wholly supportive and collaborative, who generate outstanding teaching and learning practice.
Our most recent Ofsted inspection (February 2022) reiterated the strengths that had been confirmed in the previous report (2017) and are firmly embedded across our school. The inspection team noted that ‘pupils are proud to attend’ Elton with an established culture of ‘high aspirations for what pupils can achieve’. Our students achieve well, with the inspectors being particularly impressed with the climate for learning and behaviour of our students their ‘positive behaviour at all times is characteristic of the respectful culture of this school [and] their positive conduct reflects leaders’ high standards’.
We have a constant focus on ensuring that all of our team feel supported to give their best and to have a work life balance. We pride ourselves on taking a proactive approach to promoting the wellbeing of everyone in our school community. Our teachers enjoy working here, so this is a rare opportunity to join our staff in a key subject area, contributing to our next steps in pushing Elton to realise its potential as one of the very best schools in the Greater Manchester area.
The school has excellent transport links with the M60, M61, M62 and M66 Motorways plus the Metrolink with a fast and frequent service from Bury town centre.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment is subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the DBS.
Please visit our website www.eltonhigh.bury.sch.uk/vacancies or contact the Headteacher’s PA, Andrea Poole, at poolea@eltonhigh.bury.sch.uk for an application pack.
Closing date: 10.00am on Monday 30 June 2025.