Attendance & Admissions Officer

Vacancy for Attendance & Admissions Officer

37 hours per week

Term Time + 2 weeks (41 weeks)

January 2025

Pedmore High School are recruiting for an Attendance & Admissions Officer for January 2025.  

We are a Multi Academy Trust comprising of six secondary schools and one primary school with over 750 employees and over 5,500 students, based in Dudley, West Midlands.

We are seeking to appoint an Attendance & Admissions Officer.   There are elements of this role that may merge with other roles within the school such as Student Services Officer and general administration. The successful candidate will support school staff and students with general administrative tasks such as typing, filing, collating of data.  They will also act as a school first aider, dealing with first aid issues as and when needed.

We have a strong team ethos within the school and you will be joining a welcoming staff, a very warm school and one which is happy in its aspiration to achieve excellence for all.

 You will need:

•    Excellent numeracy and literacy skills and effective written and oral skills
• NVQ2 Administrative/Customer Service Qualification or other appropriate equivalent qualification or experience
•    Good organisation skills, ability to deal with a variety of tasks, prioritise workload and meet strict deadlines.

To arrange a visit or if you require and further information please contact Mrs A Cherrington – Headteacher’s PA – Email acherrington@pedmorehighschool.uk

Telephone: 01384 686711

Closing Date; Friday 20 December – 12 noon

Interviews due to take place; Week Commencing 6th January 2025

We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and expect all Staff and Volunteers to share this commitment.  All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn.  Details of the checks that will be undertake can be found at: Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2024.  This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

 This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.

Positions at the school are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to a post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). DBS Filtering guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance/dbs-filtering-guide

 As a Trust we are committed to ensuring that throughout our recruitment and selection process, no applicant will be disadvantaged or discriminated against because of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.