Business Support Officer - Kirkburton Middle School

Schools
Secondary Schools
Kirkburton Middle School
37 hours per week, term time plus 3 days (Job share applications can be considered)
1
The primary place of work shall be Kirkburton Middle School, but you may be required to work at any school within the Trust
Permanent
Grade 5 (SCP 5-6)
Actual commencing salary: £18,433 per annum

Kirklees Council are advertising this role on behalf of Kirkburton Middle School.

We are seeking to appoint a friendly, approachable person to work as part of the school business support team providing advice and guidance to internal stakeholders and external agencies, on all aspects of school business. As an enthusiastic and highly motivated member of the team you will principally provide a ‘front of house’ service to all visitors to the school office as well as providing general administrative support to various stakeholders.

The post also includes providing generalist support for the School Leadership Team and health and safety compliance tracking for the Trust.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our wonderful support team in our friendly and truly unique school with enthusiastic staff and fantastic pupils.

Reception

  • To provide a friendly, professional and customer focused reception service to all visitors and callers, including providing detailed advice and taking action where appropriate.
  • To ensure telephone/visitor enquiries are responded to sensitively and resolved appropriately.
  • Issuing visitor passes with due regard to all safeguarding requirements
  • Dealing with visitor, parents and pupil queries
  • Dealing with deliveries and ensuring relevant departments are notified and liaising with the site manager if bulk deliveries are received

 Administration

  • To provide an effective, flexible and responsive administrative/business support service which is provided to the Headteacher/Leadership Team. This may involve assisting with the reprographic requirements within the school and associated duties.
  • General word processing to support whole school administration as required.
  • Maintaining student records on SIMs.
  • Administration for school trips, clubs and other payment items using the ParentPay system
  • Ensure documents are produced and formatted to school standards and within deadlines.
  • Undertaking other routine administrative tasks as required.
  • To ensure meetings and events are arranged and prepared for in a timely manner and are serviced and recorded appropriately. Accurate and timely documents are produced as required by the Headteacher/Leadership Team.
  •  Assisting with maintaining the school website with up-to-date information
  • To liaise with staff, pupils, or other outside agencies on behalf of Headteacher/Leadership Team as required to gather, receive and exchange information.

Applying for the role of Business Support Officer

If you wish to apply for the post of Business Support Officer then please complete the application forms found on Kirkburton Middle School Website.

Completed applications should be returned to:

Catriona Mitchell

PA to the Headteacher and Office Manager

Kirkburton Middle School

Turnshaws Avenue

Kirkburton

Huddersfield HD8 0TJ

Your application can also be emailed to cmitchell@themast.co.uk

The job code for this role is KMS 116 and should be included on the envelope if posting your application, or in the subject field if you are sending using email.

If you would like an informal discussion with regards to the role prior to applying please contact Catriona Mitchell.

Shortlisting

As part of our safer recruitment process, references will be requested prior to interview. Only in exceptional circumstances will the school interview without references prior, where the candidate does not wish to notify their current employer; applicants must make this clear when submitting an application. Job offers will always be on condition of satisfactory references.

Online searches will be carried out for all shortlisted candidates therefore it is essential that your ‘handles’ are accurate to comply with these checks. The information will be treated as strictly confidential and shared with the recruitment panel to validate your suitability for the role that you have applied for. The scope includes relevant qualifications, whether a candidate poses a potential safeguarding risk or reputational damage for the school or trust. The information found may be explored at the interview stage. Data gathered will be recorded as appropriate and destroyed in line with the data protection policy.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview.

Equality Opportunity Monitoring

The Mast Academy Trust wants to meet the aims and commitments set out in its equality policy and statement. This includes not discriminating under the Equality Act 2010 and building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce in encouraging equality and diversity. 

We would appreciate it if you would complete an equal opportunity monitoring form by following this link.

Dates

The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 7 December at 11.00am.

The interview is expected to take place on Wednesday, 14 December 2022.

If we have not contacted you by the end of December 2022, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

The expected start date for the successful candidate would be early January 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter.

07 December 2022, 11:00 AM

This vacancy is closed to applications.