Secretary for Counselling Services
Eton College
Windsor and Maidenhead
- Expired
- Salary:
- £18,642 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 19 November 2019
Job overview
Secretary for Counselling Services
We are looking to recruit a Secretary/Receptionist to provide a full secretarial service for the Psychological Services department. Working within a small team and reporting directly to the Senior Psychiatrist, you will have relevant secretarial experience and good organisational skills. You will be responsible for maintaining the appointments system, being first point of contact for telephone/email enquiries and producing accurate letters and documentation. You will have strong IT skills, excellent communication skills and the ability to deal with sensitive and confidential information.
Main Duties
- Ensure the smooth operation of the appointments system. This will involve making the initial appointments and ensuring appropriate follow up.
- Act as the receptionist in the unit and be the initial point for telephone and e-mail enquiries.
- Provide a full secretarial service for the psychiatrist and psychologists. This will involve handling sensitive and confidential information; the post holder will be restricted by the rules of medical confidentiality.
- Initiate and record the results of boy and staff surveys using on-line mechanisms.
- Ensure that the unit’s electronic and paper records are kept securely and efficiently.
- Other duties as may be reasonably requested by the Senior Psychiatrist.
- Commitment to equality, diversity & inclusion
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
The Ideal Candidate
- Excellent IT skills
- Ability to transcribe accurately
- Attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills particularly with vulnerable adolescents
- Flexible proactive approach
- Ability to prioritise and manage high workload
- High degree of confidentiality
- Tactful and discreet
- Reliable
- Adaptable
- Highly motivated
- Strong team player
Benefits
Eton College offers a wide range of benefits, including an 11% employer contribution to your pension (with 4.9% employee contribution), a cycle to work scheme and free access to the College’s sport and leisure facilities.
Salary
£18,642 per annum
Closing date: 19th November at midnight
Full details and an application form are available from our website:
https://recruitmenthub.etoncollege.com/members/?j=44&jobboard=TES
Eton College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
About Eton College
Eton College is a charity for the advancement of education. At its heart sits an independent boys’ boarding school which leads a dynamic range of educational activities and an expanding network of educational partnerships. The charity’s primary purpose, determined from its Christian foundation in 1440, is to draw out the best of young people’s talents and to enable them to flourish and make a positive impact on others through the course of a healthy, happy and fulfilling life. Founded to offer transformative educational opportunities to boys with limited life chances, currently over 100 boys pay no fees at all.
With an extensive curriculum both within and beyond the classroom, a focus on pastoral excellence, and a growing expertise in digital education through its digital education platform, EtonX, Eton College stands in the vanguard of educational developments. Its award-winning flagship embedded research facility, The Tony Little Centre for Innovation and Research in Learning, is at the core of these new developments, informing Eton College's own educational practice, as well as sharing best practice across the sector.
In addition, Eton Connect coordinates over 1,000 cross-sector partnerships between schools, charities and other organisations working together for the benefit of young people and teachers. Through research, digital resources, summer schools, visits and events, Eton Connect brings people together who are determined to increase the range of learning opportunities available to young people. Last year, Eton Connect coordinated activities for over 5,400 state school pupils, with over 2,000 pupils continuing to visit its museums and collections each year.
As it looks forward, the ambitions of the charity will continue to broaden, from maintaining and developing new partnerships to the plans for opening selective state sixth form colleges in partnership with Star Academies in Middlesbrough, Dudley and Oldham. Its partnership with Holyport College, an Ofsted outstanding state-maintained boarding school, is one of the strongest, closest and most reciprocal cross-sector partnerships in the UK. Amongst other partnerships, Eton College also co-sponsors the London Academy of Excellence, an outstanding sixth form in Newham, East London.
Headmaster Simon Henderson
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