Junior School Secretary (Part Time/ Job Share)
Silcoates School
Wakefield
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- competitive
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 3 December 2024
Job overview
Junior School Secretary (Job Share)
(Ideally for an early January start date)
Silcoates is a successful independent co-educational day school with a long and proud history. We achieve excellent academic results and offer a broad and stimulating variety of co-curricular activities. Our School is set in 52 acres of grounds in Wrenthorpe, near Wakefield, within easy reach of the M1 and M62, offering an all-through, fully co-educational day school experience for children from 3 to 18. We are looking for an experienced and organised Junior School Secretary to join our team on a job share basis, working Thursdays and Fridays during term time.
You should be an experienced administration or secretarial professional with experience of dealing with bespoke systems, confidential record keeping, correspondence and dealing with telephone enquiries. You will need to be confident, articulate, able to deal with a wide range of people and to work under pressure and to time constraints.
You should be able to demonstrate experience of customer service and an awareness of the demands of a school administration role. This is a varied and interesting role, so you will need to be able to manage your own time and to support colleagues in assisting with the wide range of work associated with working in a school.
You will be required to work each Thursday and Friday from 8am to 5pm during term time (35 weeks a year), plus an additional six days per year for training days, events or additional tasks during school holiday periods by prior agreement.
Full details of the post are available on our website: https://www.silcoates.org.uk/information/vacancies/
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Silcoates School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and DBS.
Closing date: Tuesday 3rd December, 9am
Interviews: week commencing 9th December
Attached documents
About Silcoates School
Silcoates is a 3 to 18 school which seeks to bring out the very best in every pupil through instilling in them a love of learning and a willingness to seize every opportunity they are given. Whilst many of our pupils begin their life at Silcoates in the Junior School, others join aged 11 and 16 (and at many points in-between!). This continuity serves to embed the skills and qualities that make our pupils enthusiastic and effective learners. It also ensures that they develop strong and life-long friendships with their peers. New pupils to the School are given an especially warm welcome and they soon feel valued members of our community.
Whilst we are academically selective, the pupils have a broad range of abilities and needs and thus we have a curriculum that becomes increasingly flexible as pupils develop their own strengths and aptitudes. However, the most academic will succeed at Silcoates, with recent leavers obtaining places at Cambridge and Durham universities and medical school. The breadth and variety of our curriculum is matched by the range of activities on offer outside the classroom. Having all the School on one site enables the pupils in the Junior School to benefit from the vast array of facilities on offer, from the all-weather playing surfaces to the indoor swimming pool to the fully-equipped Drama Studio.
Sport and exercise are important features of life at Silcoates. Boys are introduced to our core sports of rugby, hockey and cricket in the Junior School and, due to our size, most have the opportunity to play for the School throughout their career; girls are equally as competitive in hockey and netball.
All pupils are given every encouragement to express themselves in the full range of artistic activities and push themselves way beyond their comfort zones through going on trips and expeditions abroad. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme is very well established and several pupils achieve Gold every year. ‘Grit’ and determination are also evident on our biennial expedition to Tanzania.
The principal accolade that many parents and former parents afford the School is that it is a warm and welcoming community and that their children make friendships here that last them a lifetime.
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