Assistant Administrator/Receptionist

Assistant Administrator/Receptionist - Aurora Severnside School

Location: Berkeley, South Gloucestershire 

Salary: £13,088.31 - £13,445.67 (FTE 24,377.60 - £25,043.20)

Hours: 25 hours per week – Term time only

Aurora Severnside is a bespoke school for 11-16 year olds with SEMH needs, having taken the best elements of a mainstream school and the best elements of a special school to create an environment where young people can achieve their own goals and thrive in a future of their own choosing. We aim to prepare students for life beyond school, so further education and employability is truly at the heart of our culture and ethos. 

The main purpose of the role:

We are looking to appoint a friendly School Receptionist/ Assistant Administrator to support the School Business Manager, Administrator and Headteacher. The successful candidate will provide administrative assistance and welcome all visitors to the school. This is a varied and interesting role, which includes reception and telephone duties, diary management, typing letters and taking minutes for meetings. The role will also include general administrative support across the school as required.

Key duties:

• Identifying the caller’s requirements for internal and external queries, providing an appropriate response.
• Referring enquirers to the colleague best placed to deal with queries.
• Receiving, logging, passing on and if necessary, following up messages for colleagues in a timely and effective manner so that visitors are made to feel welcome and that colleagues can be notified about visitors.
• Checking identity, allocating and retrieving visitor identification and completing visitor log.
• Identifying and meeting the actual needs of people asking for information.
• Maintain positive relations with parents, local authority personnel and the community.
• Administration of school meals
• Maintaining student attendance registers
• Ensuring stationery and other resources are replenished

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:

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Good level of literacy and numeracy (at least 5 GCSEs above C to include English and Maths).
• Demonstrable experience of working in an administrative role for at least a year.
• Computer literacy – Excel, Word, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint and ability to use range of databases once trained
• Accurate typing.
• Organised, good time management.
• Ability to manage own time to deal with multiple tasks.
• High levels of interpersonal ability with excellent written and verbal communication.
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Discreet, confidential and reliable.

Benefits and Additional Information

• 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
• Employee Assistance Program

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

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.