Job Description

Administrative Assistant

Essex Scale 2020 Band 2 Scale 4 £19,171-£19,554 FTE (£13,083-£13,345 pro rata)

29 hours per week term time, 4 days (7:45am-2:45m) 1 day (7:45am-1:45pm) including 1 hour lunch break. 5 non-pupil days plus one week during the summer holidays.

Required as soon as possible.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed individual to join our school office. You will need to be a team player with a sense of humour, an ability to work to deadlines and keep calm under pressure. Previous school-based office experience would be an advantage and/or working within a busy reception environment; good computer skills including MS Office and Excel are essential.

Responsibilities will include:

Preparing and maintaining manual and computerised pupil data records
Undertaking data for attendance & admissions
The completion of statutory returns for LA/DFE
Collecting dinner monies/reconciliation
Collecting, recording and issuing receipts for other monies as required
Answering telephone and face to face enquiries
General office duties
Meeting and greeting parents/visitors
Supporting the teaching staff with general admin tasks
Administering first aid to pupils/maintaining medical records and stocks

St Pius X Catholic Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and expects all staff and volunteers to share the commitment. Appointment therefore, will be subject to safer recruitment procedures, including satisfactory references, medical check and enhanced DBS clearance.

Please note all applications are made on-line @ www.essexschoolsjobs.co.uk

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office.

Closing Date: Monday 16th December 2019 (noon)

Interviews: Wednesday 18th December 2019

Information about the School

Welcome to St Pius X Catholic Primary School

Our school is a small, caring and happy school where staff know all of the children and where every child really matters. Our committed staff work hard to provide a rich and challenging curriculum and strive to encourage a love of learning in our pupils to create resilient, life long learners when they leave us. Our curriculum is progressive so that knowledge and skills are built upon over time and designed in a way, using exciting topics (with clear defined subjects) to engage, inspire and motivate our learners so that they hold onto and build upon their learning each year.

Everything we do is underpinned by our Catholic faith with Christ at the centre:

‘Together in God’s loving family, we believe, we learn, we grow’. We work in partnership with parents and the Church to help the children to grow in a deeper understanding of their faith as they develop. We have close links with our parish church, Blessed Sacrament, Chelmsford.

Our school community has agreed core values, based on the Beatitudes that we want our children to work towards in their strive for excellence, to be the very best they can, no matter what their starting point. Our values of fairness, kindness, forgiveness, peacefulness, integrity and service are weaved throughout our curriculum and we reward our children when they demonstrate these values to help them grow to be the very best they can be! We value the joy of working and learning in a community that is strengthened by common values and expectations and that strives to serve God through service towards others. Our children are also taught to respect and value other cultures and faiths.

We believe in high aspirations, high motivation and high achievement for all. We encourage children to have high expectations of themselves and aspire to be the best that they can be.

Our children, staff and parents, and parish are a happy and caring community who work together to enable our children to grow into successful, happy and caring individuals who are ready to go out in the world and make a difference.

We are all proud of our school where pupils enjoy their learning in a caring environment where they feel safe, secure and valued.

Mrs S.Derbyshire

Head Teacher (B.Ed.Hons)