School Administrator - Tividale Hall Primary School

The Governors wish to appoint an experienced and highly motivated School Administration Assistant to join our dedicated team at Tividale Hall. Our vision is to make our school a centre of excellence and to create a learning culture that allows both staff and pupils to grow together to be the best that they can be. Following our last Ofsted (February 2020), we are in a strong position to continue to move towards our goal.

The hours for the role to be worked over three days are 8.00am - 4.00pm, Monday, Wednesday and Friday and you will be reporting into the School Business Manager and Headteacher.

The role will include welcoming visitors and parents into school, dealing with enquiries, maintaining the school management information systems, inputting documents together with reception duties on a daily basis.

The ideal candidate needs to be able to prioritise workloads, maintain pupil data accurately and have good attention to detail. You will be undertaking general day to day operations within the school office, raising purchase orders, processing invoices, deliveries and monitoring stock, handling phone calls and emails, maintaining pupil records, working on various school databases such as SCOMIS, FMS, ARBOR and School Comms.

We will be looking for excellent communication, IT and organisational skills, a discrete, flexible and professional attitude and the ability to prioritise and make sound decisions.

It is a busy environment and the successful candidate will need to be able to use their initiative. Ideally, we would welcome applications from those with existing school experience.

You are required to work Term time only plus 5 days.

Please apply if you have the following:

Business Administration Level 2 qualification
experience of working in a school office and GDPR
experienced with SchoolComms and FMS, SCOMIS/Arbor
the ability to prioritise workload, whilst making sure that key deadlines are met
have a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
have a positive approach and a good teamwork ethic
excellent communication skills
Tividale Hall Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and is eligible for an enhanced DBS check including a Children's Barring List Check. If you are barred from working with children you are breaking the law if you apply for this post

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

Salary: Grade C, SCP 6-8 (£23,500 - £24,702 p.a.) - Actual Salary is £12,751 - £13,577 p.a.