Job details
Administrative Assistant Level 4
HC5 SCP 6 – SCP 11 (£20,611 - £22,318 Per Annum)
Hours – 35.00 Monday- Friday, Term Time Only
Permanent
Here at Madley we aim to provide the kind of culture where positive attitudes and values are fostered, where your child can feel confident and secure, where independence, self-discipline and respect for others can develop alongside a balanced range of learning opportunities for all children.
Main Purpose of Job:
To provide administrative and financial support to the school, supervising other staff when necessary.
Role responsibilities include:
·To maintain manual records/computer databases and adapt these if necessary.
·To maintain and collate pupil reports.
·To complete forms/returns for submission to the LEA, DfES etc.
·To maintain records relating to attendance and produce data on these.
·To produce complex information as required.
·To carry out the day-to day supervision of other administrative/support staff.
·To arrange for supply cover as necessary.
Our aims are to develop and embed:
·To foster each child's intellectual, spiritual, emotional, moral, physical and social development.
·To develop the ability to live, work and share with others.
·To help each child learn how to learn and increase their self-knowledge.
·To help each child enjoy his or her school work and to find satisfaction and a sense of achievement in it.
·To enable each child to realise his or her potential through the development of the necessary skills, concepts and knowledge.
·To develop learning skills including the ability to reason and analyse, generate ideas and carry them through, solve problems, set goals and work towards them, evaluate and deal with evidence, make and test hypotheses.
·To foster independence and responsibility that will lead to ability to cope with adult life as parents, workers and citizens.
·To provide a caring, friendly environment with an emphasis on mutual respect, within which all children will be encouraged to develop their individual talents and be given every opportunity to achieve success.
·To develop in children a positive attitude towards education as a continuing process.
·To prepare children for the demands of a rapidly changing society.
·To develop an atmosphere within which everyone is equally valued and respected.
·To provide a framework of meaning for life and a code of values.
Candidates will also need to:
· Experience of working in a clerical/administrative role, at least one year of which should be within a school.
· Experience of supervising other staff.
· Experience of monitoring a budget in excess of £20,000.
· Experience of dealing with members of the public (parentds and the wider community).
· Ability to draft effective and accurate letters on behalf of the Headteacher.
· Able to communicate effectively with parents, pupils and visitors to the school.
· Effective user of Word, Excel and Arbor (or learn the system).
· Well-organised and flexible approach to work.
· Ability to work constructively and supportively as part of a team.
· Good attention to detail.
· Able to work largely on one’s own initiative.
· Good customer care skills.
· Ability to organise the work of others and support more junior administrative staff.
· GCSE Maths and English, or equivalent.
· British regulated qualification framework level 2 and above or
· International English language testing system (IELTS) score of 5.0
· RSA 3 in word-processing (or equivalent)