School Administrator

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Job Title:     School Administrator

Location:     New Acorn School – Bricklehurst, East Sussex

Salary:       £22,000 per annum

Hours:       40 hours per week 

Contract:         Permanent

Are you organised and meticulous? A great communicator? This is a great opportunity for a School Administrator to join our new specialist SEN School, New Acorn School – Bricklehurst in East Sussex.

Previous experience with SEMH is not essential but it is preferred. If you have no experience, please research SEMH and complex needs and the challenges it presents. Previous administration experience within a school environment is preferred but if you can demonstrate transferrable skills, we would love to hear from you!

Job Responsibilities: 

• Answering calls and ensuring information received via mail, telephone or email is effectively processed or forwarded, always ensuring high quality communication
• Answering queries and providing accurate messages to ensure that all individuals are dealt with promptly and appropriately, with diplomacy and discretion
• Producing relevant school documents and typing correspondence
• Processing supplier invoices, including generating purchase orders on the electronic purchasing system
• Providing administration/clerical support for the school 
• Assisting with compiling information packs for professional meetings
• Minute taking as required
• Update, modify and retrieve data on both manual and computerised systems, as required, working within the appropriate deadlines and highlighting discrepancies, in order to provide accurate and useable management information
• Ensure appropriate message/telephone options are correct for the school
• Update/distribute staff internal phone lists as and when required
• Manage own effective personal development as part of the Company’s commitment to invest in staff as the key resource in the organisation
• Ensure you meet statutory responsibilities with regard to Health & Safety, Equal Opportunities and other relevant legislation, and conform to professional and ethical requirements

About us

New Acorn School – Bricklehurst is located in Stonegate, East Sussex. Stonegate is in the county of East Sussex, Southeast England.

Stonegate is 15 miles north-west of the major town of Hastings, and 40 miles south-east of London. Stonegate lies three miles south-west of the Kent border.

We pride ourselves in steering children in the right direction, nurturing aspiration to progress them both academically and socially to encourage them to take pride in their achievements. Socially, we build confidence in our students, so they are able to have a greater understanding of the wider community in which they live.

Acorn Education & Care is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education and residential care for vulnerable children and young people. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

Why join Acorn Education? 

Benefits

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to a fully enhanced DBS.

Job ID: 202160