We are looking for an administrator to provide temporary cover.

About Us

Whitby School is a new school; an exciting development for the Whitby community. Our school will be a positive, warm, and welcoming school where pupils will aim to do their very best and take pride in their achievements. By constantly challenging our pupils to excel, we will nurture aspirations and strive to cultivate a lifelong love of learning in our young people.

We are looking for colleagues who will provide a creative, safe, and caring environment where every child is known and cared for as an individual. In this climate, every young person can thrive as they develop in personality, character and intellect and become a highly successful learner and individual.

Our opportunity

We are looking for an Administrative Assistant to join our support team. Your key focus will be improving pupil attendance through monitoring data trends and ensuring that absences are followed up, so that pastoral and senior staff can outline and help pupils overcome barriers to learning.

A core responsibility will be recording, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on pupil attendance data, attention to detail is key.

You will be a point of contact for parents/carers to ensure that attendance at school is kept as a high priority for maintaining pupil progress and pupil learning. You will need to hold strong communication skills and have emotional resilience in order to have discussions around challenging behaviours and attendance issues.

This role will allow you to contribute to the positive educational experience of our pupils.

This role is not exclusively for those who have worked administration duties for a school environment before, candidates who have worked in other sectors are encouraged to apply.

Key Skills

• Level 2 qualification or equivalent to demonstrate good literacy and numeracy skills. (Such as GCSE grade C/ 4 and above)
• Enjoy working as part of a team
• Demonstrate good communication skills both orally and in writing
• Strong computer literacy
• Excellent organisational skills with a keen attention to detail
• Able to multitask across various systems and be able to learn adapt to any software updates or changes

We can offer you

• A supportive, collaborative team who openly share ideas and best practice
• A school community that prides itself on engagement, generosity, dignity and inspiration

Queries 

Please contact Chloe Bullen on 01609 536 964 or via chloe.bullen@northyorks.gov.uk

Chloe has been engaged to support us with recruiting to this exciting opportunity.

Application Process

Download the job description

Please apply via NYC Jobs

An email will be sent to shortlisted candidates with details of the interview process / shortlisting outcome.

We do not accept CV’s

Please contact us if your need to apply in a different format.

When applying please take into account the following:

Supporting Information

The supporting information section of your application should clearly evidence your ability to meet the requirements we have outlined in the job description & person specification. This will be used to shortlist applicants for this role and therefore it is imperative that you provide evidence as requested.

References

When completing your application, please provide two employment referees. Generally, this is your current and most recent employer. Please note your referee should ideally be a previous line manager or someone in a position of authority.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We have a robust child protection policy and all staff will receive training relevant to their role at induction and throughout employment at the school. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

This post is subject to satisfactory references and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service criminal records check for work with children. An online search may be undertaken as part of the recruitment process on information available in the public domain. Candidates should disclose anything that may be relevant in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

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