Admissions Assistant
The Stephen Perse Foundation
Cambridgeshire
- £11,032 - £11,627 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Spring term
- Apply by:
- 12 December 2021
Job overview
The Stephen Perse Foundation is a leader in modern independent education, superbly well placed, both to meet the challenges, and to seize the opportunities, presented by its future. Any school, indeed, any group of schools, is only as strong as its people. Stephen Perse boasts exceptional people across all of its schools and nurseries, and invests in their recruitment, development and empowerment to ensure our pupils benefit from excellent role modelling, outstanding support and exceptional teaching. As Principal, I consider this investment in our people to be of utmost importance. At the Stephen Perse Foundation, all are united in embracing the modern world and in seeking to help our pupils to find and take their place in it, as confident, socially responsible adults. We seek to attract people who are inspired by this challenge, people who share our values, people who are passionate about our collective vision of developing the change-makers of the future.
Richard Girvan
Principal
Responsible to: Admissions Registrar
Location: Dame Bradbury's, Saffron Walden (with the requirement to work at Cambridge sites as and when required)
Hours of Work: 18 hours per week, days and times to be discussed during interview.
Salary guide: £11,032 (£22,984 FTE) -11,627 (£24,223 FTE)
Main responsibilities:
- To support the Admissions Registrar and admissions team in the promotion of the whole Foundation and the admissions process cycle.
- Respond to all Foundation admissions enquiries promptly by email and telephone and face to face. Compose replies to enquiries as appropriate in order to ensure the team provides a high standard of customer service
- Take and respond to queries from parents and students throughout the Admissions inquiry and application process Input data into the school Admissions database, ensuring the information is accurate and complete. Generate correspondence as needed
- Providing administrative support to the admissions team.
- Provide information and arrange tours for visitors to all schools in the Foundation liaising with Heads of School and other senior staff.
- Ensure accurate data input and maintenance of prospective students information on the databases for all schools in The Foundation this includes Open Apply and SIMS and any other as relevant.
- Ensure prospective pupil electronic records are kept up to date at all times (we are a paperless admissions office).
- Record prospective student status.
- Take part in all Foundation wide Open Days, marketing events and Entrance testing as required.
- Assist with any other admissions related activities and events as required.
- Support with cover on Reception desks (Foundation wide) during school holidays when required.
We are unable to accept CVs as a method of application.
Terms and conditions:
All appointments for the Stephen Perse Foundation are subject to satisfactory reference and DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checks, proof of identity and eligibility to work in the UK, completion of a medical questionnaire and proof of qualifications.
Please apply directly through our online recruitment page at www.stephenperse.com/recruitment and download an application form.
Attached documents
About The Stephen Perse Foundation
The Stephen Perse Foundation
The Stephen Perse Foundation is a family of independent schools combining excellent results and achievement alongside personal wellbeing located across Cambridge and Saffron Walden; educating boys and girls from nursery to sixth form where students gain an exceptional skill set that supports ambition, nurtures talent, encourages creativity and critical thinking leading to success and self-fulfilment.
History of the Stephen Perse Foundation
Formerly the Perse Girls School, founded in 1881, the Foundation developed to become the Stephen Perse Foundation in 2007, and first admitted boys into the Senior School in 2017. The Foundation has grown over recent years, adding a co-educational sixth form to its highly successful Senior School in 2008, and four nurseries and early years settings (three in Cambridge and one at Dame Bradbury’s in Saffron Walden) between 2010 and 2021. The Foundation has been fully co-educational in all settings since 2017 and now comprises four nurseries, two junior schools, a senior school and sixth form.
Predominantly a day school, there are currently 65 (mainly sixth form) boarders. As well as its reputation for academic excellence, The Stephen Perse Foundation is renowned for an innovative approach to education, and a focus on preparing students for the future.
Stephen Perse Foundation Schools
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Cambridge, Salisbury Villas
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Cambridge, Shaftesbury Road
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Madingley
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Saffron Walden, Dame Bradbury's
- Stephen Perse Junior School - Fitzwilliam Building, Cambridge
- Stephen Perse Junior School - Dame Bradbury's, Saffron Walden
- Stephen Perse Senior School - Cambridge
- Stephen Perse Sixth Form - Cambridge
Mission, Vision and Values
Our Mission Statement
At the Stephen Perse Foundation, our mission is to educate and inspire the contributors to tomorrow’s world: intelligent young people with the creativity, compassion, confidence and conviction to question, evaluate and improve society.
Our Vision Statement
To deliver this mission, our vision is to create and sustain an outstanding educational environment that:
- Fosters modern scholarship through exceptional teaching and a dynamic, flexible and rigorous academic curriculum
- Provides outstanding breadth of opportunity and quality of experience through a rich and varied co-curriculum
- Nurtures and celebrates individuality, wellbeing, personal development, and contribution to the growth of others, through superb pastoral care, social and emotional education, and learning support
- Champions and models equality, diversity and inclusivity, and social and environmental responsibility with a global outlook
Our Values Statement
With excellence and creativity in teaching and learning at the core of each of our schools and nurseries, we value the positive difference our students can make in the world through:
- Scholarship and the advancement of knowledge and understanding
- Kindness, courtesy, inclusivity and collaboration
- Diligence, independence and self-reliance
- Humility, reflectiveness and the pursuit of self-improvement
- Character, individuality, wellbeing and confidence
- Conserving the environment and living sustainably
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