Attendance Administrative Assistant
Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre
Kent
- £12,748 - £12,980 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- NJC Scale 3, Points 5–6
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 19 February 2023
Job overview
We seek a highly motivated and hardworking individual to support the improvement of attendance for individual students across Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. The successful candidate will be organised and have strong levels of literacy and IT skills. You will be responsible for undertaking a series of tasks each day, including the chasing, processing and coding of student absences, the oversight of registers to ensure timely and accurate completion, and the preparation of data to enable absence messages to be sent home. You will work within a small team of staff responsible for attendance.
To be successful, you will have unlimited optimism, good communication skills, strong levels of literacy, good IT skills and the tenacity to succeed in driving attendance levels upwards in the school.
The post requires a good standard of education but, more importantly, an attitude which is positive and supportive towards young people and their families.
This is a part-time role working 25 hours per week (mornings), term time only, plus 25 hours in the school holidays.
In return, you will enjoy a unique working environment in the heart of the Weald of Kent. There is an independent nursery based on the school site.
It’s a competitive market out there, and we want to know what it is that makes you the one we can invest in. Detail your successes in your covering letter and get us excited about you.
We are not accepting applications from employment agencies for this position but would be delighted to receive a direct application from you.
Closing date: 19th February 2023; however, early applications are encouraged as we review applications as we receive them.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all members of the community. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore, this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
About Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre
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- Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre
- Ashford Road, Tenterden
- Kent
- TN30 6LT
- United Kingdom
Homewood School & Sixth Form Centre is a mixed 11 – 18 wide ability school with Academy status with 2,100 students including 350 in the Sixth Form. We are part of Tenterden Schools’ Trust working in collaboration with local primary schools serving the Wealden town of Tenterden and the surrounding villages. The school is situated on the edge of Tenterden and enjoys a large semi-rural site overlooking open countryside.
Homewood has excellent facilities for all its students and our specialisms in Performing Arts, Applied Learning and the Rural Dimension underpin our approaches to learning which are designed to raise achievement across the whole student body. We aim to maintain and develop the cultural aspirations of the school community in line with our priorities of “belonging” and “respect” and offer a broad range of curriculum opportunities in all subject areas. This also extends into the local community through partnerships across primary, secondary and higher education sectors as well as non-educational community partners.
Homewood provides a secure and caring learning environment in which all students can flourish and succeed. It is a school renowned for its support for students’ wellbeing. Consideration and respect for each other is central to our work. We are immensely proud of the achievements of our students and are committed to enabling all to reach for individual excellence.
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