School Administrator - Aspire Alternative Provision

Location: High Wycombe

Term time only

Salary Type: Aspire Support Staff Pay Scale

Salary details: £23,260.52 - £27,015.41 Annually (Actual)

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week, 38 weeks per year

Interviews to be held: By individual appointment.

Aspire provides 'outstanding' alternative educational provision and support for secondary age students. Students attend full or part-time and are referred to us by schools and the Local Authority. Our focus is to support young people, together with their families and schools, to reach beyond their potential and enable them to flourish by developing positive behaviours, attitudes and aspirations.

The Wycombe Grange is our Alternative Provision school in High Wycombe, catering for permanently excluded students and students at risk of exclusion in the South of Buckinghamshire.

Students come to us for a short period of time while we work with them, their families and their mainstream school, to identify strategies that will help them manage their emotions and be successful at school. Sometimes our assessments indicate that mainstream is not the right place for a student, and in this case, we will work with them, their families and the local authority to help them move into a specialist setting.

The site administrator is the first person to greet all visitors to our provision. We are looking for someone who can give a warm and professional welcome to students, parents, staff and visitors. We want to find someone who will put all visitors at ease and meet the needs of visitors with a variety of reasons for coming to our provision.

The site administrator is the 'gatekeeper' to our classrooms and ensures that all visitors have the relevant safeguarding documentation in place, where relevant, to ensure that we keep our students safe.

We are looking for someone who can juggle multiple tasks, who can prioritise effectively and who is excited to work in an environment where every day is different. We are looking for a team player who is willing to do whatever it takes to support the team.

You should have significant experience of administration tasks, excellent knowledge of IT software packages, and a willingness to learn new skills.

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Aspire is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. An enhanced level DBS check and references will be required along with the completion of a pre-employment health check.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.