PA to the CoHeadteachers
Isleworth and Syon School for Boys
TW7 5LJ, Isleworth
- £37,443 - £39,264 per year
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- Quick apply
- Salary:
- Scale SO2 (Outer London)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Flexible start date
- Apply by:
- 11 November 2024
Job overview
JOB TITLE
PA to the Co-Headteachers
Closing Date:
09:00 – Monday 11 November 2024
Date posted:
25 October 2024
Salary:
SO2 (Outer London)
£37,443 - £39,264 (pro-rata)
Pro-rata value = 0.935FTE = £34,859 - £36,554
Contract type:
Full Time – 36 hours/week. Term time only + 3 weeks
Contract term:
Permanent
Start date:
Flexible start date
“Staff are proud of the work they do. Building on the long-standing traditions of the school, staff support the development of ‘courteous, respectful and calm’ young men, reflecting the school’s well-established values.”
[Ofsted Report]
Our School
Isleworth & Syon School is a great place to work and a place where all staff can develop. Our staff are energetic, dedicated and absolutely committed to working together to ensure that our boys (and students in our mixed Sixth Form) remain ambitious and highly successful. We are proud of our long history and have a commitment to excellence and are a high-performing school.
Our Ethos
Relationships are critical to our success and to our future. We empower our staff and encourage everyone to work collegially in achieve the best outcomes possible. Our school is systematically organised and pastoral processes are tightly managed to allow staff to build professional relationships with students in order to create excellent learning environments. Across the school, students benefit from our insistence on high standards and achievement, an exceptional range of extra-curricular activities, and a focus on traditional values. We expect all staff to contribute to this ethos.
The Role
We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly capable person as the PA to the Co-Headteachers. This is a full-time permanent post, term time only, plus three weeks. This is an exciting opportunity to work as direct support for the determined and successful Senior Leadership Team. The role also includes line managing the main office; full details can be seen in the job description. You will ensure that the school receives excellent administrative support and be a motivated individual committed to working collaboratively. We are looking for someone who takes pride in their work and who will therefore contribute to our students’ success. You will be joining a friendly, supportive and open culture in which all staff can develop and thrive. You will be accountable to the Co-Headteachers.
We are looking for:
- Relevant and successful experience
- An ability to build excellent working relationships
- Superb clerical and administrative skills
- A hard-working, self-motivated, proactive, organised and reliable individual
- Ability to liaise effectively with visitors, students and staff
- Excellent communication skills.
Our Location
We are situated in a tree-lined neighbourhood of Isleworth, a vibrant area of West London. The school is close to Osterley Park and a short hop from central London by tube (Osterley is a 10-minute walk) or rail (Isleworth is a 7-minute walk). There is easy access to the M3, M4 and Heathrow Airport.
Visit Us
We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce. We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
You are very welcome to arrange to visit us and to experience why we are such a successful school and a fantastic place to develop your career.
Amongst other benefits, we offer:
- Working with dynamic, innovative and supportive colleagues
- Induction into the school, a continuing professional development schemes and carefully considered succession planning.
- Superb ICT facilities
- Investment in an employee assistance programme through a subscription to APL Health.
- A chef-led canteen service.
- Access to schemes such as: childcare vouchers; cycle to work and free flu jabs.
Application details
Further recruitment details, including a School Information Pack, a role information document and an application form are on our website www.isleworthsyon.org under ‘Staff Recruitment’. Please ensure that all sections of the form are completed.
Isleworth & Syon School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and other pre- and post-employment checks, including, where appropriate police check from other countries. In addition, if shortlisted, we will undertake online searches to ensure the suitability of applicants who aspire to work in our school.
Our Data Protection Policy and our Privacy Notice for applicants, can also be found on the website.
More about Isleworth & Syon School
Type: Mainstream School Address: Ridgeway Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 5LJ
Phase: Secondary with Sixth Form Telephone: +44 20 8568 5791
Funding status: State – Academy http://www.isleworthsyon.org
Gender: Boys and mixed Sixth Form email: school@islewothsyon.org
Age range: 11-19 years
Attached documents
About Isleworth and Syon School for Boys
- Isleworth and Syon School for Boys
- Ridgeway Road, Isleworth
- Middlesex
- TW7 5LJ
- United Kingdom
Thank you for your interest in our school.
Our Ethos
Isleworth & Syon School is a ‘Leading Edge’ school with a history of excellence; a high-performing school with scores well above boys nationally. We empower our teaching staff to work collegially in departments, creating shared resources so that planning time can be spent refining rather than re-inventing lessons. Good practice is shared and all teaching staff contribute ideas to further enhance the curriculum. Our school is systematically organised and pastoral processes are tightly managed to allow staff to build professional relationships with students, thereby creating excellent learning environments. Across the school, students benefit from our insistence on high standards and achievement, an exceptional range of extra-curricular activities and the focus on traditional values. We are looking for colleagues who aspire to be part of a great team of staff and who will enjoy learning about the ‘Isleworth & Syon Way’, our unique strategy of ensuring success for all students.
Our aim is to provide an outstanding education for all of our students, through our focus on teaching and learning. We are a continually improving school with a reputation for blending innovation and tradition and providing an exceptional range of additional opportunities whilst we focus on the academic achievement of our students.
Our Staff
We recognise that our staff are our greatest resource and we are ambitious for our staff and invest heavily in their development. We offer an extensive programme of professional development which offers a range of opportunities for training, including internally, through local and national programmes. We have strong partnerships with universities and higher education institutions and actively support staff pursuing heavily subsidised Masters degrees and other higher qualifications. There will also be opportunities for internal promotion and to collaborate within our local partnership of schools.
Our staff - teaching and support - are thoroughly professional and hard working. We aim to provide a working environment which is both rewarding and suitably challenging for our staff.
About Us
We are a voluntary controlled, non-denominational boys school, with a mixed Sixth Form. We have a long and distinguished history which can be traced back to 1630. We are situated in a tree-lined neighbourhood of Isleworth, a vibrant area of West London. Close to Osterley Park and a short hop from central London by tube (Osterley is a 10-minute walk) or rail (Isleworth is a 7-minute walk). There is easy access to the M3, M4 and Heathrow Airport. Our proximity to Osterley, Isleworth, Brentford and Chiswick result in a truly comprehensive and richly diverse intake of students, which creates a wonderfully vibrant working environment for our staff.
You are very welcome to arrange to visit us and to experience why we are such a successful school and a fantastic place to develop your career. I hope that you will read on and make an application to the school.
Euan Ferguson - Headteacher
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