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Governing Body Clerk and Administrator

Governing Body Clerk and Administrator

Thamesmead School

Surrey

  • Expired
Salary:
Surrey Grade 7 £27,099 - £29,912 per annum which equates to £13,491 - £14,892 pro rata.
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2019
Apply by:
8 September 2019

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Thamesmead School for an experienced administrator due to the retirement of the existing post holder.  

The role will be split between providing a clerking service to the Governing Body and providing ad-hoc administrative duties, based on the same range of skills. 

The role is based on 20 hours per week over 41 weeks per annum, including term-time. This includes attendance at some early evening Governing Body meetings, usually about six a term, which are normally held on a Tuesday. 

The post holder will:

  • Utilise high level IT, communication, organisational & interpersonal skills to provide a first-class clerking and administrative service.
  • Maintain GovernorHub, an on-line administrative system which brings together: 
    • Confidential encrypted online storage of documents in one place, accessible by all the members of the governing board.
    • A shared calendar of meetings which can be seen on the Web and synchronised to governors’ smartphone, work or tablet calendar.
    • Links to DfE and Ofsted data about the school.
    • Education news locally and from around the country.
    • A private area for a governing board to exchange messages and emails.
    • Tools for clerks to manage membership, roles, committees and organise meetings quickly and easily.
    •  Apps for iPad, iPhone and Android which can be used to download documents to use in meetings even if there’s no Internet access.
    • Downloadable reports for the meeting attendance, declarations of interest and membership to help the school comply with statutory requirements.
  • Ensure compliance with statute and National Governors Association (NGA) guidelines.

Thamesmead School looks forward to receiving applications from within and beyond the world of education.  For information, the current post holder is retiring but has agreed to undertake a handover period with her successor.

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About Thamesmead School

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+44 1932 219 400

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Our History & Ethos

Thamesmead School is a stand alone secondary academy school for students aged 11- 16 and is located in Shepperton, Surrey. As a heavily over-subscribed school (well over 700 applications for our 210 places in year 7 this year) most of our students come from our local community and we value to place within it. Our school vision is centered on four cornerstones that we strive to achieve. They are;

· Committed to excellence

· Nurturing individuals

· Respecting our community

· Fulfilling potential

These encapsulate our desire to be a school that achieves academic success alongside personal growth and development.

Our students arrive with prior attainment above the national average and leave us having made more progress than expected. If you look at our results over the last few years, you’ll see our year on year trend for sustained improvement and aim to continue this. We are not complacent and every year closely analyse our results and identify how we can continue to improve the quality of education for our students further.

Location

We are based in the vibrant community of Shepperton Village, a short walk from the rail station which offers direct links to Kingston, Wimbledon, Clapham Junction and Waterloo in under 55 minutes. We also have good road links to both the M3 and M25. Heathrow airport is a 20 minute drive. Our staff, students and PTA can be found enjoying themselves and performing at the Summer Fair and the not to be missed ‘Big Tree Night’, to name but two of the events that combine to make the village much more than the location of a famous film studio! Shepperton was also voted the politest town in the UK in 2017, a quality we hope you will recognise in our students too.

Facilities

We are able to offer a purpose built school, with a large green site. Our school design features a range of unique learning spaces including an outdoor performing arts area, well-equipped specialist classrooms, dedicated student support spaces as well as a number of computer suites.

We also have an onsite gym in association with Fresh Gym who are able to offer access to staff at certain times and subsidised membership to their wider facilities.

Your Professional Development

At Thamesmead we provide a comprehensive programme of continuing professional development, with the focus very much on developing staff's individual pedagogical practice and career aspirations.

We recognise that, just like our students, we too are life-long learners and we know that the most effective learning for teachers happens when they are given opportunities to reflect on, share and improve their practice. There are many opportunities for teacher​s at Thamesmead to do this, for example:

· The school hosts regular in house ‘teachmeets’ for you to share with, and gain from, your peers.

· Our INSETs have a dual focus; moving the school’s development plan forward whilst being targeted at the needs and requests of individual teachers. Indeed we ensure much of our INSET time is ‘self-set’ which ensures that teachers make active decisions in regards to how they develop themselves. In addition, there are regular opportunities for teaching staff to deliver INSET sessions as part of their professional development, meaning everyone can contribute. An example of CPD pathways available this year include Middle Leadership Developmentand Coaching.

· Curriculum workshops, which are led by our curriculum leaders and/or subject specialists, are held regularly throughout the year to focus on the developmental needs of each curriculum area, such as subject specific professional knowledge and pedagogy.

- To support the CPD provision in school, we place particular importance on providing online CPD, to which end we subscribe to online portals with hundreds of webinars and courses available to watch independently, ranging from classroom practice, pastoral care and SEND provision to leadership development. We actively encourage staff to collaborate with colleagues in other schools to further their development through partnership.

· We believe in promoting leadership at all levels: As well as developing your teaching skills, we want to ensure that you are ready for leadership opportunities when they present themselves. Therefore the school is an advocate of building leadership capacity at all levels. This is done in a variety of ways including ensuring a range of leadership opportunities within the school structure appropriate to each career stage, and the chance to apply for bursaries to apply for leadership projects. It is very common for our new staff to have moved into a leadership role within two years of joining us. Moreover, every year all staff have the opportunity to participate in our school led Middle Leadership Development Programme while established middle leaders may apply for the National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL). Similarly, the school may offer financial support towards the cost of undertaking an educational Masters degrees.

· Our ECT programme is extensive.  There are regular opportunities built in for ECTs to get the support and developmental opportunities they require. As well as a lead ECT trainer, the school also provides every individual with a subject mentor and an in-school assessor. The added benefit for our ECTs is that we are an accredited SCITT provider, and also work with a number of PGCE partners, thus there is access to continued high quality training and collaboration with colleagues.  Moreover we work very closely with a number of external trainers and a dedicated SEND school to ensure that all elements of teaching can be covered in a supportive and effective way.

Benefits of joining Thamesmead School

  • Onsite gym with subsidised membership
  • Staff wellbeing group
  • Career progression opportunities
  • A thriving house system
  • An annual wellbeing long weekend in the Autumn Term
  • New staff induction programme
  • A supportive and happy community
  • Free onsite parking
  • Onsite flu vaccinations
  • Cycle to work scheme

What do our staff have to say about working at Thamesmead School?

"Thamesmead has really supported me in the time I have been here, providing opportunities to develop as a teacher and also a person too. Once I joined Thamesmead, I felt part of the ‘family’ straight away, this is down to the collective approach and togetherness shown by all staff, across the school, every single day. The support from leaders for me to develop and thrive is brilliant." – Middle Leader

"I have had a brilliant first 2 terms teaching at Thamesmead and this is in no small part down to the calm and welcoming atmosphere of the school and the warm and supportive attitude of my department." ECT

"I have been in the fortunate position to train and work alongside experienced, motivated and caring staff at Thamesmead. Thamesmead school is a community in which a trainee teacher can only thrive in, the knowledge and skills I have learnt from my time at Thamesmead gives me confidence in my future role as a teacher." PGCE Student

"Thamesmead is a community which I have loved being a part of. The school pushes you to become a better version of yourself, it has challenged me at times, but I know I have made the right decision of becoming a teacher. All thanks to Thamesmead SCITT"

Recruitment process

If you would like further information on our current vacancies, the school or any other questions, please contact Human Resources on hr@thamesmead.surrey.sch.uk Please note that we follow safer recruitment practices and appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS.

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