School Administrator / Receptionist

School Administrator / Receptionist

Location: Wolverhampton

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week, Term Time only + 3 weeks (42 weeks a year worked)

Salary: £11 p/hr - £11.30 p/hr (Actual Salary £21,168.39 - £21,745.72) depending on experience  

The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities. As part of our growth strategy, we are really pleased to have opened a brand new Primary and Secondary ASC/SESMH school in Wolverhampton with a proposed capacity of 80 students aged between 5-19.

We are currently looking for 2 School Administrators/Receptionists to join us this year, one post will include SEND Admin responsibilities. Over the last 12 months the new school building has been redeveloped, and work is being done to design the look and feel of the school to ensure it fulfils its potential of being an amazing learning environment with facilities to allow students to access a varied curriculum in a calm and nurturing environment with a team that strives to give every student the confidence and opportunities to achieve.

The Headteacher is looking for fun, passionate, dedicated, and driven staff to help support her vision for the pupils and the school environment. She is committed to offering a truly unique workplace environment, embedded with a supportive culture, positive ethos, strong teamwork, and personal drive, with further career opportunities as both the school and Aurora, as a company, grows.    

The Role / Key duties: 

To be responsible for School reception and administrative duties, welcoming visitors, managing phone calls, diary management and taking deliveries. It is essential that the person for this role is organised, able to multitask, work flexibly and have a ‘can do’ approach to work, as no two days are the same.  

·      To act as the first point of contact for the school: welcoming visitors and responding to telephone and email enquiries in a helpful and constructive manner

·      Ensuring the safety and security of the school at all times, making sure that the front door is locked and entry to the premises controlled

·      Ensuring that the reception area is maintained attractive and welcoming and updating notice boards as and when required

·      Maintaining, updating, sorting and retrieving a range of records/statistical data, including monitoring/ordering of stationery and office supplies if appropriate

·      Following standard procedures for security of confidential data and information

·      To support colleagues and senior members of staff to achieve their own work objectives effectively and efficiently

·      Maintain positive relations with parents, local authority personnel and the community 

Like many SEN environments; your duties are likely to vary and therefore candidates will need to be flexible and be able to lend a hand whenever required. 

Skills and Qualifications: 

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

·      Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

·      Good level of literacy and numeracy

·      Must have excellent computer skills – Excel, Word, Outlook, Access, Powerpoint and ability to use range of databases

·      Organised, good time management

·      Able to work independently and as part of a team

·      Discreet, confidential and reliable

What’s on offer?

Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career. 

Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme. 

Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. 

Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

To apply please complete a full application form.

 For more information on this position please contact Karen in the recruitment team via email at karen.barnfield@the-aurora-group.com 

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children."

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer