School Administrator
Walthamstow Primary Academy
Waltham Forest
- Expired
- Salary:
- FTE
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 2 October 2023
Job overview
Role: Cluster School Administrator
Contract: Permanent (Term-time only plus 10 days)
Location: Walthamstow, London
Salary: Competitive
Hours: 37.5 hours/week
Closing Date: 02 October 2023
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? We are currently recruiting for a School Administrator to join our team and work across two schools. You will work with management to ensure that all related matters are dealt with in an effective and consistent manner.
Role Purpose
- To provide a high level of administrative support for two schools within the East London Cluster to improve efficiencies, processes and procedures.
- To actively monitor procedures relating to admissions, managing induction procedures for new starters (pupils) and securing the transfer of both manual and computerised records for new pupils and leavers.
- To oversee and monitor attendance and punctuality processes and procedures.
- To improve school club services, find new providers and liaise with existing ones ahead of the new term.
- To oversee and implement the operation on Arbor for clubs & trips.
- To provide active support with the school’s census return.
- To ensure meal debt management is in place and is effective reporting any concerns to the CBM.
- To provide Line Management to the School Administrators undertaking a monthly checklist and reporting to the CBM monthly.
- To implement procedures and processes as advised by Line Manager.
- To support the schools in times of staff absences by covering the Administrators absence period and attending to day-to-day office procedures with professionalism.
- Embed an outstanding customer service & office environment culture across the schools.
Although not essential, the ideal candidate will have a background in education, but most importantly will have the experience to work well under pressure and the ability to work collaboratively across all schools and the wider Trust.
United Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All positions are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
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About Walthamstow Primary Academy
About Walthamstow Primary Academy
As a brand new school, Walthamstow Primary Academy has the opportunity to embrace everything that today's parents and children want in a highly successful primary school. The primary expertise, vision and ambition of the Headteacher and staff team is fundamental in meeting the aspirations of families, United Learning and the local community.
Vision and ethos
All United Learning schools are linked by the shared aim of bringing out the best in everyone - pupils, parents, staff and the wider community. The successful candidate will also be able to develop a unique, school and community-specific ethos for Walthamstow Primary Academy to sit alongside United Learning's core values.
Location and building
Walthamstow Primary Academy is in the heart of Waltham Forest and situated adjacent to United Learning's Walthamstow Academy; a popular and oversubscribed secondary school.
The primary academy will benefit from a brand new school building, which is planned for completion during the next academic year. The building will be bright, welcoming and well-equipped to support the school's educational provision. The successful candidate will feed into the process of choosing resources that best suit the plans for the academy.
Curriculum
Walthamstow Primary Academy aims to make learning enjoyable, challenging and engaging for all pupils - whatever their abilities and interests. There is an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to design and shape the academy's curriculum, which will equip pupils with the necessary literacy, numeracy and ICT skills to succeed across all subjects.
Extracurricular activities and extended school day
To broaden and deepen pupils' understanding of the world, Walthamstow Primary Academy offers a vibrant enrichment and extracurricular programme that includes music and physical education.
Partnership with families and the local community
Partnerships with families is vital to pupils' success and parents are regularly and actively engaged in their children's education. The academy also takes seriously its wider responsibilities, embedding community links for the benefit of both pupils and local people.
Admissions
Walthamstow Primary Academy currently has one Reception class and one Year 1 class, with a new intake of 30 pupils due in September 2017. Once moved into the new building, we will become 2FE and will grow to a capacity of 420 4-11 year olds. As an all-inclusive school, the academy's places are open to children of all backgrounds and abilities. The admissions arrangements are in line with those of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, and children with Education, Health and Care plans that name the academy are admitted first.
Governance
Walthamstow Primary Academy is accountable to a Local Governing Body (LGB). The LGB monitors academic achievement, well-being of pupils, financial management and input on future plans for the school to deliver excellent opportunities for the children and young people of Walthamstow.
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