Headteacher's PA
Aylesford School Warwick
Warwickshire
- £29,408 - £31,457 per year
- New
- Salary:
- £29,408.00 based on 39 weeks per annum, 37 hours per week + a very generous local government pension scheme.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 1 September 2024
Job overview
Headteacher's PA
Reporting to: Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher for Admissions
Working weeks: 39 weeks per annum (Term time plus teacher training days)
Hours per week: 37 hours per week
08.00am – 4.00pm Monday to Thursday and Friday 08.00am – 3.30pm (30-minute unpaid lunch break on all working days)
Grade: J – Points 20 – 23 (£33,945.00 – 36,648.00 full time equivalent)
Actual salary: £29,408.00 based on 39 weeks per annum, 37 hours per week + a very generous local government pension scheme.
Job Summary
Provide a highly effective first point of contact for all communication with the Head Teacher, support the Headteacher with internal and external communications, delegating appropriately to school staff as directed by the Headteacher.
Job Responsibilities
· Maintain the Headteacher's outlook calendar/diary, coordinating all internal and external meetings, including preparation of agendas and papers, including minute taking where appropriate.
· Open and respond to mail, escalating to the Headteacher where necessary
· Maintain the Outlook Calendar for the Deputy Headteacher’s, arranging meetings where required.
· Acknowledge all communication to the Headteacher in a timely manner.
· Manage the Student Admissions Process, in consultation with the Deputy Headteacher.
· Manage the student suspension process in consultation with the Headteacher
· Coordinate the Complaints Process, ensuring response timelines as per the School Complaint Procedure and in liaison with the Headteacher.
· Coordinate the paperwork for permanent exclusions in liaison with the Clerk to Governors/Chair of Governors and the Headteacher.
· Ensure effective communication channels within school including the weekly staff briefing, ensuring that the details of the meeting are communicated in good time
· Collation of announcements for the weekly staff briefing and circulation of briefing notes to all staff in a timely manner
· Co-ordinating the site team to ensure the rooms/meetings for weekly staff briefings are set-up correctly.
· Maintain an overview of all communication going out from school, through effective liaison with the Media, Marketing and Communications Officer.
· Inviting VIPs & Governors to key events e.g. school productions as instructed by the Headteacher
· Send corporate Christmas cards
· Arranging link meetings for Headteacher and SLT and subject leaders as necessary
· Organising interviews in conjunction with the HR Manager and assisting with recruitment days
· Organising in conjunction with the HR Manager end of term arrangements for staff/new staff inductions/interviews for candidates
· Administration for school trips in liaison with the Headteacher and trip leader
Deputise for cover in the absence of the Cover Manager and Deputy Cover Manager (rare)
Line Manager for the Office Manager, Cover Manager and Deputy Cover Manager
Closing date is midnight Sunday 01 September 2024
Shortlisting is Monday 02 September 2024
Interviews will take place Friday 06 September 2024
Interested candidates should email completed application forms FAO Mrs S Hughes, HR Manager & Headteacher’s PA at hr@aylesfordschool.org.uk or post to: - Mrs Samantha Hughes, Aylesford School & Sixth Form College, Tapping Way, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV34 6XR.
We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to two satisfactory references and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check.
Attached documents
About Aylesford School Warwick
The School’s origins go back to the late nineteenth century. It was moved from Leamington Spa to its present site in 1964 as a response to overcrowding and the need for modernising. It opened as a School for 400, mainly Warwick students. In time it became a six-form entry Comprehensive School, attracting students from a wider area. A large prestigious housing development near the School has increased numbers on roll from approximately 850 to 1,200+. We became an academy on 1st January 2012 as a result of our desire to become more independent and free to control our own destiny. The school, its staff and governors have been supportive and positive in moving to this new status.
From September 2015 we have incorporated a new Primary School Phase into our facilities and now operate as a 4-19 Academy. This is an exciting development as from September 2021 we are now operating as an all-through school with Reception children through to Sixth Form Students.
Headteacher
Mr Tim Hodgson
Vision and values
Aylesford School aims to develop a love of learning in pupils and to continuously develop the teaching and learning experience. Teachers endeavour to consistently raise expectations and aspirations.
The school maintains a strong focus on raising attainment and achievement and strives to develop standards through challenge. Strong emphasis is placed on pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
Ofsted report
Aylesford School was last inspected by OFSTED in April 2018 and received a very good report that was published in early May 2018. It highlighted the good quality of teaching based on the fact that, 'Teachers manage their classes well. They have high expectations of pupils' conduct and behaviour. Classrooms are calm, orderly environments and pupils are on task'. The report notes that, 'Pupils are very proud of their work and their achievements' and the school has a 'relentless focus on improving teaching and outcomes for pupils.’ The full report is available to read on both the school and OFSTED websites.
To improve still further the report recommends that we should:-
- develop a greater strategic oversight as an all- through school, sharing the good practice taking place between phases
- improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment by making sure that all teachers continue to support disadvantaged pupils.
Leaders and Governors of the school agree with these comments and they will remain in our aims, aspirations and ambitions for the coming years.
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