Operations Assistant
Astrea Academy Woodfields
Doncaster
- £22,687 - £24,868 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade 7 - points 14 - 19 - full time equivalent salary £25,409 - £27,852 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- March 2023
- Apply by:
- 20 February 2023
Job overview
Astrea Academy Woodfields has an exciting term-time opportunity for an experienced, motivated and proactive Operations Assistant to join their welcoming team.
This new role will support the invaluable work delivered by the team at Woodfields, and is directly linked to the priorities of the Operations Manager in providing high quality business support administration to ensure the smooth running of the school.
Our ideal candidate:
- Has experience of providing administrative support in a busy office environment
- Has excellent IT skills, with the confidence to use Excel and learn new school systems and processes
- Passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs
- Can work autonomously, prioritise conflicting demands whilst managing a diverse and demanding workload
- Is highly organised, with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with a wide range of contacts effectively and professionally
- Is aligned to our values and mission. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here
- Is proactive and flexible and approaches challenges pragmatically to ensure the best outcome for students, parents, carers and the wider academy team
- Has meticulous attention to detail, and can utilise systems and data to find the best way to successfully support projects and tasks.
In return we offer:
- Excellent CPD opportunities
- A strong caring ethos and supportive team
- The opportunity to make a real difference
- Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
- The opportunity to work 40 weeks per year, 38 weeks of term time plus two additional weeks
- An induction and well-being package
- Networking opportunities across the wider Astrea Academy Trust team.
We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to appreciate fully our excellent learning environment.
For an informal conversation about the role and the journey we are on as a school, or to arrange a visit please contact Kathryn Haughian, Operations Manager - Kathryn.Haughian@astreawoodfields.org
If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can positively impact a number of entitlements, including increased annual holiday payments which represent an increase in salary. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. Interviews will be held as soon as possible after the closing date.
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About Astrea Academy Woodfields
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- Astrea Academy Woodfields
- Weston Road, Balby, Doncaster
- South Yorkshire
- DN4 8ND
- United Kingdom
About Astrea Academy Woodfields
Welcome to Astrea Academy Woodfields and thank you for considering us as your school of choice. We have a unique approach to transforming the hearts and minds of young people so that they can go to university, or a real alternative, and live a great life.
As part of Astrea Academy Trust, we have used high-quality research and the experiences of the best schools to develop an ambitious curriculum, strong routines, and a life-changing programme of personal development. We believe in traditional approaches to teaching, and we value scholarship. In recognition of this, we refer to our young adults as ‘scholars’ to reflect the commitment that everyone makes to academic learning, here and beyond. We promote strong family values, manners, decency, hard work, and kindness. We do this by practising routines that enable us to make the most use of our time. We are both warm and strict so that scholars know we care and can succeed within firm boundaries.
We are curious, tenacious, and scholarly. Every scholar learns a classical musical instrument and practices this daily at home. They gain opportunities to play in orchestras and in world-class musical venues. Scholars complete two hours of homework a day and are supported to recall this information throughout the curriculum. Every person in school learns poetry by heart and will recite this publicly every day at the start and end of school. We all dine together as a family at lunchtime and serve each other food and tidy the table at the end of the meal. This is an extraordinary school that believes in simplicity and old-fashioned family values.
In our achievement-oriented culture, it is cool to be smart, and all scholars work hard to make the best of themselves. Working together, we support every child to get that place at university and a top job.
10 Great Reasons to Work Here
1. The curriculum is already planned using resources shared across all Astrea Academies. You need to intellectually prepare for lessons rather than plan from scratch.
2. We give feedback to scholars, there is no book marking.
3. Behaviour systems are centralised. The senior and pastoral teams organise detentions and children are polite and courteous. You can teach!
4. We have 8 INSET days a year to give you the opportunities and time you need to develop as a teacher.
5. Our house style is Teach Like a Champion (Lemov). There are no gimmicks, or high workload alternatives to simple and effective teaching from the front.
6. There are strong routines that leave very few grey areas. The school is very predictable and calm.
7. There is a free lunch if you eat with the scholars as part of Family Dining. This develops their manners and builds good relationships between staff and scholars.
8.We are a warm, welcoming and friendly place to work and learn. There are 750 scholars so you will know most people well.
9. SLT are visible and approachable. This means that issues can be resolved quickly.
10. Our beating heart is our performing arts programme. Every new starter gets a musical instrument and lessons, we all learn poetry by heart, we have shows and productions. You can get involved!
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion at Astrea Academy Trust
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
Astrea Academy Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all requests for flexible working as we know that diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities that we serve. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive and building our culture of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in Astrea’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people.
All successful appointments will be subject to suitability checks in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, prohibition, qualifications, online searches, two references and enhanced DBS check including the Children’s Barred List.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, which provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
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