Ambition and Excellence for All The Winsford Academy is seeking to appoint an efficient and organised Personal Assistant to the Principal. The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing comprehensive administrative and organisational support to the Principal, ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of the school’s leadership team acting with initiative and judgement to undertake delegated tasks. The PA will act as a key point of contact between the Principal, staff, governors, parents, and external stakeholders. WA is a fully inclusive school so ideal candidates will be passionate about social mobility and have a determination for all students to achieve their potential. Further detail about the role can be found in the attached Job Description and Person Specification. Benefits of working at WA: Alongside knowing that you are making a positive difference to the lives of young people, working at WA means that you will benefit from: High quality professional development. Regular training to develop strategies within the four broad areas of special educational need. A generous and secure pension scheme. Generous staff hospitality. Cycle to work scheme. Leisure centre discounts and access to fitness suite on site. If you have any questions about the role or the application process, please contact the Principal’s PA jane.fox@winsfordacademy.org.uk. We reserve the right to extend, withdraw or close vacancies at any time and without notice. Winsford Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children. How to apply We ask all applicants to apply through Face-Ed; our recruitment software. This enables us to efficiently carry out our safer recruitment checks, but we recognise it can take some time for the applicant. The good news is you will only need to register for Face-Ed once to apply for any role in the Trust's 10 schools. Our top tips for a painless process are as follows: Because Face-Ed is cloud-based software, it is possible for you to experience a break in connection, and you won't necessarily know about it straight away. We therefore strongly recommend that you prepare your main application content in a different package like MS Word/Notepad and copy and paste it into your Face-Ed application form in the relevant sections. If you get a message saying "Validation Error" it isn't a software fault. It means you have entered data in a format that wasn't expected, and it is causing a problem with saving. This might mean you have entered words in a box that expects numbers, for example.