Senior School Admin

Overview and Responsibilities

Senior School Admin

Location: Aurora Woodlands, Darwen

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week, Term Time Only Plus 3 weeks (42 weeks per year worked) 

Salary: £13.67 to £15.27 p/hr / Actual annual salary £26,306 to £29,385 depending on skills and experience 

The Aurora Group 

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.  Aurora Woodlands School is an independent day school in Lancashire providing specialist education for young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties (SEMH).

The main purpose of the role:

To provide administration support to all areas of the school. Working collaboratively and professionally, this role is busy and varied. 

Key duties:

• Provide an efficient and effective administrative service to the school team.
• Provide assistance to the School Business Manager and Central HR teams with recruitment, probationary reviews, performance reviews, appraisals.
• Support School Business Manager with Processing invoices, Goods receipting, New supplier onboarding and Petty Cash
• Manage the schools business administration function and deliver timely reports and meet compliance deadlines.
• Assist and support the School Business Manager in managing and responding to issues relating to the support functions within the school, such as First Aid, Off site activities and Catering

Skills and Qualifications

• Good level of literacy and numeracy.
• Demonstrable experience of working in administrative role ideally to include Finance, HR and Pupil administration and/or within an educational or care environment.
• Computer literacy essential, particularly in Microsoft Office.
• Accurate typing and Minute taking.
• Organised and have good time management.
• Ability to manage workload effectively and multi-task.
• High level of interpersonal ability with excellent written and verbal communication

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

• Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career. 

• Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme. 

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. 

• Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details. If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Karen in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at karen.barnfield@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.