PA to the Deputy Head Pastoral (Maternity Cover)
Forest School
London E17
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- November 2017 (Maternity Cover)
- Apply by:
- 16 October 2017
Job overview
The role of the PA to the Deputy Head Pastoral is to provide support across all areas of his responsibility through a full confidential, high quality executive assistant and secretarial service. This includes dealing with governors, members of the senior leadership team, teaching staff, parents, pupils and visitors to the school on his behalf. 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.
The PA to the Deputy Head Pastoral must have the ability to communicate in an efficient and friendly manner. It is important to develop continuity and consistency and a day-to-day rapport with pupils and staff showing appropriate care and concern for parent and pupils needs. The successful candidate will be an extremely high calibre person with excellent proven administrative and computing skills (including Word, Excel spreadsheets and related formulae, PowerPoint and Outlook). They will be proactive with a “can do” approach and able to work on their own initiative.
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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