School Uniform Shop Manager
Newton Prep School
London SW8
- Expired
- Salary:
- £10,233 - £12,488 (£12.47 - £15.22 per hour)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 24 January 2018
Job overview
Newton Prep is a leading co-educational day school for pupils aged 3-13 years located in walking distance of Battersea Park and Queenstown Road BR stations.
We are seeking to recruit a part-time Shop Manager to be responsible for managing our School Uniform Shop 44 weeks per year and ensuring that a high standard of customer service is provided to parents. The role involves assisting parents with selection and purchase of school uniform; ordering and stocktaking; taking cash and credit card payments; and maintaining accurate records of all incomings/outgoings using the School’s finance software.
Applicants must have previous retail experience (preferably in the clothing/textiles sector); good communication and customer service skills; the ability to use initiative and work independently; combined with good IT and numeracy skills.
Although there is some flexibility with regard to the pattern of working hours, we are ideally seeking someone who could work:
- Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1.00 to 6.00pm during term time;
- Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1.30pm to 5.30pm when the school is not in session (excluding the four weeks commencing on the Monday directly after the summer term ends and the week prior to the start of the Autumn term);
- Monday - Friday 11.00am to 5.00pm for the four weeks commencing on the Monday directly after the summer term ends and the week prior to the start of the Autumn term.
The post holder is not required to work during the three half term breaks, for two and a half weeks in December (including the time the school is closed between Christmas and New Year), two and a half weeks in April around Easter and three weeks in August.
Although there is some flexibility with regard to the pattern of working hours, we are ideally seeking someone who could work:
Salary is on a range £10,257 - £12,118 depending on skills and experience. Other benefits include contributory staff pension scheme, staff gym, free school meals during term time and free car parking.
Further information and an application form can be obtained from the HR Office on 0207 720 4091 ext. 1254 or 1255 or by email to hrassistant@newtonprep.co.uk
Closing date: 24.1.18
Interviews: 2.2.18
Newton Prep is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to child protection screening, including an enhanced DBS check.
Newton Prep
149 Battersea Park Road, London SW8 4BX
About Newton Prep School
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In a London landscape crowded with prep schools, Newton Prep stands out. The school, founded in 1991, has an unbeatable combination of size and eclecticism, coupled with extraordinary facilities and outside spaces. Its position at the heart of Central London’s most burgeoning development, Newton is a short walk away from the Nine Elms to Battersea riverfront. This hosts the bustling new ‘town’ around the rebuilt Battersea Power Station; a new extension of the Northern Line tube now means the school is within five minutes of three stations.
When arriving, visitors and prospective parents always comment on Newton Prep children: they are well-educated, of course, but noticeably curious, kind and articulate. Above all, in this modern world, they are equipped with the best of British values: pupils are encouraged to think for - and be - themselves.
Academic success is central to all that is taught. More than that, however, the school ensures children are equipped with a sense of self, resilience and hopefulness. We encourage children to think outside the curriculum. Whether it’s piano lessons, judo or Boggle, children need ways of engaging: we aim for our Newton Prep children to enter adolescence feeling that they already have more to contribute than just academic achievements. Yes, we need to get them into the right schools, but not at the total expense of their well-being, character and love of learning.
Inspiring a love of learning is central to Newton Prep’s offering. With a huge all-weather pitch capable of supporting four fixtures at a time, a 120-seat recital hall, a music technology suite, recording studio, 300 seat auditorium, three gymnasiums, bustling art studios, dance studios, two libraries and three hands-on science labs, children are encouraged to “do” as well as “learn”. We have an oasis of a garden where our children perform Shakespeare, hunt for mini-beasts and conduct scientific experiments.
Despite the excellence of their education, Newton Prep children are notable for their lack of arrogance; there is no sense of entitlement here. The kindness and generosity shown by the pupils towards their peers is remarkable; we are particularly proud of the engagement between the older children and our youngest pupils.
This spirit of community is also built into the Newton Diploma, our revolutionary humanities curriculum for Years 7 and 8. This is a cross-curricular, rigorous and exciting programme which allows pupils to explore links between subjects, extend initiatives for service and leadership, and breathe real fire into their intellectual curiosity.
We are not a blazers-and-boaters kind of school. As a school only thirty years young, we are not limited to looking back at the past to inform what we do in the future. We focus all our present energies on ensuring a bright future for our bright children. We want Newton Prep children to enjoy their precious childhood years.
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