Administrator

Location: Torton, Kidderminster

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Salary: £23,712.00 - £25,647.00

Start Date: June 2023

The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

As part of our growth strategy; we’re really pleased to be opening a brand new Secondary ASC/SEMH school in Autumn 2023 in Torton, Kidderminster for students aged between 11-19.

The building is currently being redeveloped, and work is being done to design the look and feel of the school to ensure it fulfils its potential of being an amazing learning environment with facilities to allow students to access a varied curriculum in a calm and nurturing environment with a team that strives to give every student the confidence and opportunities to achieve.

The role:

We are looking for a friendly and organised Administrator to join our team. As part of the administration team, you will be required to support with HR administration, payroll, business and general admin duties. The work you do impacts on all areas of the organisation, therefore you will be required to work collaboratively, professionally and effectively with all areas of the organisation as appropriate.

Please note; this role is for the full year. During school holiday periods some lone working may be required.

Key Duties:

• Liaising with the Central Recruitment Team to ensure the prompt action of all recruitment and staff onboarding activities.
• Overseeing and supporting the administration of new staff following the onboarding process and throughout the employee lifecycle.
• Support managers to manage sickness absence issues effectively in line with the related policies.
• Be responsible for co-ordinating the attendance of students with the Behaviour/safeguarding/Family Liaison Lead.
• Support Team Leaders with the calculations for Holiday Breaks and annual leave entitlements, and ensure the relevant spreadsheets are up to date.
• Co-ordination of data and reports and completion of all actions for the monthly payroll submissions to the Central Payroll team. Ensuring the correct checks and authorisations have been made and data is submitted on time.
• Liaising with Central Functions as appropriate to answer on site queries relating to PAYE, SSP, SMP and Pensions.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.

For the full job description and break down of duties, please contact Adele from the recruitment team adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidate qualities:

• Good level of literacy and numeracy.
• Demonstrable experience of working in administrative role ideally to include HR and payroll and/or within an educational or care environment.
• Computer literacy essential, particularly in Microsoft Office.
• Accurate typing and Minute taking.
• Organised and good time management.
• Ability to manage workload effectively and multi-task.
• High level of interpersonal ability with excellent written and verbal communication.

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

• Full training and continued support 
• Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
• Life assurance and pension
• Health cash back plan
• Car lease scheme
• Bike to work scheme 
• Perk box
• Free parking

Apply/Enquiries 

If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact 07918 144908 / adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com  

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.