PA to Head of the Preparatory School
Forest School
Waltham Forest
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- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2017
- Apply by:
- 27 July 2017
Job overview
We require an experienced PA to the Head of the Preparatory School at Forest. This permanent post offers excellent benefits and requires a high quality executive assistant to provide support across all areas of the Head’s responsibility. The role holder would work closely with other members of the School’s Administrative Team and also with external agencies, promoting a positive image of the school. This is a high profile and busy role that includes dealing with governors, members of the senior leadership team, teaching staff, parents and visitors to the school on his behalf. Applicants should have excellent communication skills and a proven track record in senior secretarial support, ideally gained within an independent school.
Please review the Job Description for full details. We welcome early applications.
Please click "Quick Apply" to submit an application.
Closing Date: 8am, 28 July 2017. Early applications welcome.
Interviews will be held during the first two weeks in August.
Forest School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Appointment to this position requires an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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About Forest School
Forest is an outstanding all-round School, well known for its friendly, welcoming ethos, and full of 1450 bright sparky pupils aged 4-18. We are lucky to be located in this part of North East London, allowing us to attract pupils from a diverse range of social and ethnic backgrounds who share in being academically ambitious, but are grounded, engaging and very loyal to the School. Described by the Good Schools Guide as a ‘powerhouse with a heart’ and enjoying a reputation for strong expert teaching and learning, Forest pupils are encouraged to find success on all fronts through the breadth of the opportunities on offer to them.
We aim to develop the whole pupil through our distinct educational provision which gives equal weight to academic, co-curricular and pastoral strands of school life. To this end, Forest promotes all-round educational excellence, recognising that advancement to higher education or the world of work requires top academic grades but keen to develop a sense of service in the pupils and an awareness of their responsibilities to other people, as well as themselves. Forest is recognised as a school that is always evolving, self-evaluating and planning strategically for its future, while valuing its heritage and its location, all of which makes our community a stimulating one to work in for our 150+ teachers and 100+ non-teaching staff.
For full details about working at Forest School please visit our website www.forest.org.uk
Forest School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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