Administration Assistant/Receptionist
Langley Park School for Girls
Beckenham
- £17,686 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- NJC Scale 2 Point 3
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2020
- Apply by:
- 19 June 2020
Job overview
Administration Assistant/Receptionist
Employer: Langley Park Primary School (Langley Park Learning Trust)
Salary: NJC Scale 2 Point 3 – Actual £17,686 (FTE £20,835)
Location: Beckenham, Kent
Job Type: 36 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (Permanent)
Job Starts: 1st September 2020
Description:
Langley Park Primary School (LPPS) opened in September 2016. This is a brand new school, which is a part of the Langley Park Learning Trust. Our new building opened in September 2018 close to the two Langley secondary schools. The school is a two-form entry school for children aged 4–11 years old. Currently we have children in Reception through to lower Key Stage 2. Langley Park Primary School is a local school for local families in an area where primary schools are heavily oversubscribed and parents need more choice.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, efficient, flexible, friendly and reliable person to manage the smooth running of the Reception area. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively with staff, pupils, parents and visitors with a clear knowledge of all aspects of safeguarding. They will maintain the highest level of professionalism at all times.
Main duties will include being the first point of contact for parents, visitors and all stakeholders, acceptance of deliveries, dealing with incoming and outgoing post. Other necessary qualities include confidentiality, efficiency and being able to work on your own initiative and under pressure. The successful applicant will also be required to retrieve and update information on manual and computer based systems. You will contribute to the effective organisation of the school and administrative and clerical support.
The ideal candidate will:
• Have excellent numeracy and literacy skills
• Excellent organisational skills, flexibility and the ability to multi-task
• Be proficient in the use of ICT, including experience of Microsoft Office and school software packages
• Have relevant experience of working within a school administration role
• The ability to develop good relationships and work in a small, flexible team
• Be able to relate well to children and adults
• Be willing to attend relevant training (may be outside normal working hours)
We can offer:
• Excellent facilities within a modern building
• The opportunity to join a new school and be a founding member of our team
• A commitment to a wide range of professional development
• A supportive community of colleagues within the multi-academy trust
A copy of the job description, person specification and application form can be found below. If you are an excellent administration officer with a “can do” attitude, then please apply by emailing your completed application to office@langley-primary.org.uk.
Langley Park Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Closing date for applications: 19th June 2020
Interviews and assessments: w/c 22nd June 2020
Candidates who have not been contacted by this date should assume their application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
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About Langley Park School for Girls
- Langley Park School for Girls
- Hawksbrook Lane, South Eden Park Road, Beckenham
- Kent
- BR3 3BE
- United Kingdom
The Borough
Bromley, the largest of the 32 London boroughs, stretches from urban Anerley, Penge and Crystal Palace to the open countryside of Kent. Its schools serve an intelligent and articulate community which has a great respect for, and expectation of, the education system.
Student numbers in the 17 secondary schools are high. There is much cross border traffic with many parents in neighbouring boroughs intent on securing places for their children in Bromley schools.
16 of the secondary schools in the borough have converted to academies. Networks of staff across the schools are good, and there are many significant local partnerships, both in and out borough.
The School
This school dates back to 1919 when it began life as Beckenham County School for Girls. It changed from a grammar school to a comprehensive in 1976, some 17 years after moving to its present parkland site in South West Bromley. Our location provides a good rail link with Central London as well as easy access to the countryside.
It is now an all-ability school of 1700 students with a large co-educational Sixth Form. Currently there are 115 teaching staff , 58 associate staff (full and part time) and an annual budget of over £8 million.
We are consistently over-subscribed (last year 820 applications for Year 7 places and 520 applications for Year 12). Our current admission number is 240 (8 forms of entry) organised into 8 tutor groups. Heads of Year have responsibility with tutors for students’ academic and personal well-being and for monitoring their learning and progress. Rigorous tracking and target setting systems inform students’ learning and social inclusion issues, including SEN, are comprehensively and promptly covered by the Personal and Learning Support (PLS) Faculty which has its own dedicated area in the main school building.
Facilities are good although there is little spare capacity. We have a commitment to maintaining a pleasant, modern technological environment and our site staff and cleaners work hard to ensure that this is so. New build projects recently completed include a dedicated Dance Studio, and an extended and enhanced Sixth Form social and study space.
We encourage positive support from parents; we have a committed Governing Body and an active PSA; relationships between staff and students are very good; clubs, sport, music, drama, educational visits, residential visits and foreign tours all provide further opportunities for personal development for both students and staff.
If there is any information here about which you are not clear, please don’t hesitate to ring and we will be happy to clarify. Additionally please look on our web site at www.lpgs.bromley.sch.uk. You can access our prospectus, and if you click on the ‘NEWS’ tab, you can read in our monthly and termly Newsletters to Parents about the sorts of things that are our daily and weekly concerns.
I am very proud of this school, of the quality of its fabric and facilities, but more particularly of the quality of the experience it aims to provide for both students and staff. I know that they, and parents and Governors, share that pride with me. It does not, however, lead us into complacence. Regular self-scrutiny and a commitment to betterment are implicit and explicit in the way that we work here.
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