Administrator

Administrator Milton Keynes, England

Acorn Education and Care
Full Time Milton Keynes, England 22000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

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How would you like to be paid for five days but only work four*?

Our colleagues’ wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance. We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).

If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group – so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG!

Job Title: School Administrator

Location: Willow Park School, Milton Keynes

Salary: Up to £22,000 per annum (Actual Take Home Pay - Pre Tax)

Hours: 40 hours per week

Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only

Are you organised and meticulous? A great communicator? This is a great opportunity for a School Administrator to join our new specialist SEN School, Willow Park School

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

Willow Park School is a brand new 55 place SEN school for children with complex needs including SEMH and Autism. A co -educational provision with entry from 9 years to 16 years old. Willow Park School is an exciting addition to the Acorn portfolio based in Milton Keynes. Willow Park School is proposed to open in September 2023.

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.

  • You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy.

Administrator
Acorn Education and Care

www.acorneducationandcare.co.uk
Bolton, United Kingdom
Steve Page
$100 to $500 million (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Private
Healthcare Services & Hospitals
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