School Office Administrator & First Aid Coordinator
Blossom House School
Merton
- New
- Salary:
- £25,408 to £29,103 depending on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 7 January 2025
Job overview
The role is a Permanent, Term-Time plus 15 days working in the school holidays
Monday to Friday: (08:00am – 17:00pm)
Salary from: £25,408 to £29,103 depending on experience
To Start: ASAP
Blossom House is an Ofsted-rated “Outstanding” specialist school for children aged 3 – 19 years of age with speech, language and communication difficulties. We are rapidly expanding and are therefore looking for a new School Office Administrator to join our team.
What the role involves:
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced & enthusiastic Office Administrator & First Aid Coordinator to join our very busy School Administration Team. This role would ideally suit someone with a high level of administrative & First Aid experience. You will need excellent collaboration skills, good attention to detail, very good computer skills, an ability to multi-task, continually learn in the role, and develop good working relationships with children, parents, colleagues and external members.
The ideal candidate will have:
• Experience of administration work, preferably in a school environment.
• Experienced First Aider
• Able to work efficiently under pressure within a team– this is a very busy school office!
• Have experience of and be competent in the use and maintenance of a school management information system.
• Be well organised with good administrative skills.
• Have the ability to prioritise and work accurately with attention to detail.
• Have excellent communication skills, particularly in the drafting of correspondence, formal letters and responding to queries.
• Be able to build effective working relationships and work well as part of a team.
• Be proficient in Word, Outlook, and Excel and ideally have experience of using databases.
• Understand and respect sensitivity of pupil, carer and staff records and ensure confidentiality of all written and verbal communications.
• Understand the importance of safeguarding within a school environment.
Closing date: 7th January 2025
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About Blossom House School
- Blossom House School
- Station Road, Motspur Park, New Malden
- London
- KT3 6JJ
- United Kingdom
Blossom House is a very special place to work, not just because of our wonderful team of staff, but also because of the satisfaction of supporting the development of our fantastic pupils. Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in November 2023, we aim to continually evolve our working environment to ensure we remain an outstanding place to work.
We believe in the importance of supporting our staff in all ways and we are committed to investing in your personal development, giving you the opportunity to undertake external courses as well as offering training in INSET. We have a Learning Teaching and Therapy Support Team in place to offer one to one coaching if required.
All assistants currently have the opportunity to obtain a City & Guilds accredited training course in Behaviour Support Management while working here. We also deliver the Elklan course which is an accredited speech and language training programme aimed at professionals working in schools.
We also acknowledge any stress that may be experienced through working in this environment. To support our teaching staff, therapists and other staff, we offer sports activities (including yoga and football) and an employee assistance programme which includes one to one counselling.
When you join the team at Blossom House, you’ll benefit from:
- A modern, climate-controlled working environment at Motspur Park.
- Well-equipped teaching rooms with interactive whiteboards.
- Ample underground car parking and good transport links at Motspur Park, while our Euston school is within walking distance from London Euston rail station.
- Small classes (maximum of 10 but usually less).
- Learning Support Assistant in every class.
- A wellbeing programme that includes a £60 termly wellbeing allowance.
- Generous holiday allowance.
- An independent employee assistance programme.
- UK Healthcare cash plan designed to help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optical and dental bills and offers cashback (up to policy limits) for a variety of different medical treatments. It also offers lifestyle benefits and discounted gym membership.
- Free lunch once a week and ample drinks and snacks in our comfortable staff room.
- Cycle scheme and Tech scheme.
- End of term parties and gifts.
Comments from our staff
‘I was going to give up teaching until I joined Blossom, 8 years later and still learning new things and enjoying it.’
‘It’s nice to feel part of a community where care is at its centre.’
‘Being able to work as such a close team, with so much support, is brilliant.’
‘Everyone is so friendly and the team approach makes working here so much easier.’
We are always interested in meeting friendly, competent, dedicated, suitably qualified and experienced candidates for roles at Blossom House. If you are interested in making a difference and joining our dedicated team, please send your application to recruitment@blossomhouseschool.co.uk.
Blossom House School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including an Enhanced DBS check, the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We can only shortlist based on completed applications and not CV’s alone.
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