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Southend High School for Girls
School Support Team Assistant
6 Month Fixed Term
Closing date: 15th August 2025
30 hours Per Week
9:00am - 3:30 pm Monday - Friday
Hours are negotiable
Term time + INSET days
Salary Scale 5 Point 9 - Actual Salary £18,357 per annum
Application forms are available atwww.shsg.org/vacancies/#how-to-apply
Applications and supporting letters to be submitted to recruitment@shsg.org
We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced, and efficient individual to join our School Support Team to cover a period of staff absence.
This team provides all aspects of administrative support for departments and whole school trips,
activities and events.
The successful candidate will have excellent organisational and IT skills and be experienced in data entry and producing spreadsheets, with accuracy and attention to detail.
Experience of working in an educational environment would be an advantage but is not essential.
The successful candidate will be required to:
- Provide administrative support to the school in an efficient and effective manner.
- Be able to work well as part of a team and take direction from the team leader.
- Research and produce subject resources for departments.
- Have good IT skills and experience using Microsoft Office, including excel, word, PowerPoint and Teams.
- Undertake data entry and produce reports to a high standard.
- Be organised and able to manage and prioritise workload, meeting deadlines set.
- Have excellent communication skills and a professional friendly manner.
- Work well under pressure remaining calm and focused.
- Undertake copying and distribution of letters and resources, electronically wherever possible using Office 365.
We can offer you:
- A strong, highly committed team of staff with an ethos of tolerance and a family community spirit
- Training and development and our commitment to staff wellbeing
- An environment which promotes innovation
- Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls' grammar school rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues to move forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey.
We reserve the right to call applicants to interview, and appoint, prior to the closing date
All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.This is a customer-facing role needing fluent spoken English.
Information about the School
“Pupils flourish and excel at Southend High School for Girls.”
– Ofsted, July 2024
Southend High School for Girls (SHSG) is an outstanding grammar school with academy status, proudly educating generations of students for over a century. We blend tradition with innovation, creating a dynamic learning environment where students are safe, happy, and successful.
Our school is a family-orientated community where pupils thrive. Students achieve exceptionally high outcomes and benefit from an ambitious curriculum and an exemplary careers education programme. As one pupil told Ofsted, “The school will literally help you do anything you want to do.”
We offer a vast range of clubs, trips, productions, and leadership opportunities, including the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme and World Challenge. Students are encouraged to lead and contribute, with many acting as ambassadors and house captains.
SHSG is proud to be a member of NACE (National Association for Able Children in Education), reflecting our commitment to stretching and challenging all learners. Our curriculum goes far beyond the National Curriculum, with students in Key Stage 3 studying three separate sciences and two languages, and engaging in ‘super-curricular’ tasks that promote independent research and critical thinking.
Staff are passionate, well-supported, and receive high-quality professional development. Our shared ethos of high expectations, mutual respect, and continuous improvement makes SHSG a truly special place to work.
If you are enthusiastic about education and excited to join a high-performing, caring school community, we warmly invite you to explore our current vacancies and consider becoming part of the SHSG family.