PA to the Head
Silcoates School
Wakefield
- New
- Salary:
- competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- November 2024
- Apply by:
- 12 September 2024
Job overview
PA to the Head
(November 2024 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 high calibre PA to our Head.
This is a key role in our School’s team and an excellent opportunity for a skilled and self motivated individual to take over from our current PA who retires at Christmas after a long and successful career with the School.
Your role will include diary management, attendance and note taking at Senior Leadership meetings, managing communication with parents on behalf of the Head, school reception duties and school administration such as updating the school calendar and assisting in marketing or admissions tasks. The variety of this role makes it an interesting and challenging one, with opportunities to contribute to the whole life of the School. You would be joining a pleasant and dedicated team of professionals in a friendly and appealing setting.
The role is offered on the basis of working term time (35 weeks per annum) plus an additional ten days for training or school business during holiday periods. It is important to us to find the right individual for this key role, so enquiries to the School are welcome via recruitment@silcoates.org.uk and we are keen that the successful candidate has a handover commencing in early November.
For full details of this post and to apply please complete an application form, which is available on our website: https://www.silcoates.org.uk/join-our-team/individual-vacancies/ . Note that CVs will not be accepted.
Silcoates is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online and reference checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
Closing date: Thursday 12th September at 5pm, Interview date: Monday 23rd September
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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