ROLE: Administrative Assistant LOCATION: LEEDS Start Date: ASAP Protocol Education are working with a mainstream secondary school in Leeds who are looking for a Admin Assistant.
The successful candidate will be working in a busy fast-paced school environment, alongside the Admin Team.
This is an exciting entry level opportunity in a supportive school.
This role will be administrative based, and people orientated, being the point of contact of employee support.
Skills and Responsibilities: Hold strong interpersonal skills; you will be expected to offer exceptional support to staff, including managing sensitive and confidential information and circumstances.
Accurately input data, experience using SIMS is ideal but not essential.
Able to receive incoming calls professionally and confident making outbound calls.
Self-motivated and able to prioritise work.
Hold basic IT skills and a capability to use software such as Microsoft packages.
Hold strong written and spoke English, with the capability to write formal letters, emails, and other documents.
Be a highly organised individual and able to organise and translate information between departments and staff members within the school.
Be confident working in a fast-paced environment.
Hold strong attention to detail.
Able to follow direction well, reporting directly to the Office Manager, who will be a point of support.
Required Experience: Hold experience in an administrative role, within a school is preferred, but other administrative experience is considered.
Hold strong interpersonal skills and proven experience working in a people-oriented role.
Have a degree qualification, ideally within the Business or Psychology field, however, other degrees are considered.
Hold a DBS on the update service or be willing to apply for a new one.
Some experience working with a school or with young people.
Contract Details: This role is full time, Monday to Friday, Leeds term time only and the option to take on additional workdays in school holidays.
Working hours – 7am – 3pm or 8am – 4pm, with an earlier Friday finish.
Benefits of working for Protocol Education: Continued professional development courses offered all year round.
A dedicated educational consultant offering career and personal support.
Refer a friend scheme, with monetary reward.
A competitive salary.
Flexibility of work.
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role.
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All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay.
This advert is for a temporary position.
In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance 'Keeping Children Safe in Education', this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers.
All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
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