Trust Administrator - Term Time

The Island Learning Trust

Ref:KCC-F76-198-S
Posted:20/03/2024
Pay:Kent Range 5 (£22595 to £23693) Actual pay £19190
Start Date:ASAP
App Close Date:19/04/2024 at 12:00
Interviews:TBC

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The Island Learning Trust is looking for an Administrative Assistant to work in its central Trust office based at the Minster in Sheppey Primary school site. Our Trust staff are a small but welcoming team who all strive to provide professional support to the schools in our growing Trust. We offer a caring and supportive working environment where we all help each other to 'be the best we can be'.

This is a full-time position working 37 hours per week Monday to Friday, 38 weeks per year (term time only). The starting salary is £22595 with an actual salary of £19190.00. Please note this is a Trust office position and is not based in a school.

The ideal candidate will be professional, personable and committed to providing an excellent service, and above all else, will have a positive work ethic and can-do attitude. They will need to be computer literate with a keen eye for detail. A good telephone manner is a must as well as the ability to communicate well both verbally and in writing.

The successful candidate will be required to provide a full administrative service within the Trust, which includes undertaking a diverse range of administrative duties to ensure well-presented and accurate correspondence, reports and other documentation as directed by the trust Senior Leadership Team.

The Island Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding. The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across the Trust which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online and Social Media checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early if a suitable applicant is found before the closing date.

Information about the trust

TILT is a local, high performing Trust that is invested in raising aspirations for children and families in Swale. The Island Learning Trust promotes and achieves excellence. It recognises the importance of outstanding teaching and learning by actively encouraging creativity and innovation, whilst having consistent standards of behaviour and attendance. Treating everyone as equal, whilst celebrating diversity, is a non-negotiable; protecting all through safeguarding, health and safety and welfare is paramount. The Trust's core mission is to drive transformation in educational standards for all pupils; accelerating progress, raising standards of education achieved and the aspirations of the children and families we serve, developing high performing, outstanding schools for the future.

Staff have a responsibility to be positive in their relationships with pupils and supportive of each other. We have a responsibility to ensure every moment a child is in our school will be spent productively. Through thorough use of evidence we will enable all children to make excellent progress. Our motto is "...to be the best we can be..." We maintain a relentless focus on raising standards of achievement so that all pupils have opportunities to achieve their full potential.

We expect all staff to maintain the highest professional standards at all times. We put children first. Staff are prepared to go the extra mile to provide the best possible education for their pupils. Our aim should always be to provide for the pupils of our school what we would want for our own children. In order to do this we maintain a rigorous focus on: accelerating and improving attainment and progress, improving the quality of teaching and learning so that it is at least strongly good, effective leadership and accountability structures and ensuring consistent application of agreed systems and processes throughout all TILT schools.

The Island Learning Trust was established on 1st November 2016. The MAT was comprised of Minster Primary and Halfway Houses Primary, both schools are on the Isle of Sheppey, an area of high deprivation and socio economic challenges. These two founding schools are both Ofsted rated good schools. The outcomes at Minster Primary are outstanding. Sunny Bank Primary School in Sittingbourne joined TILT in February 2020 under a sponsorship arrangement and significant all round improvement has been made with the support of the MAT.

Job Contact Information

Name:Hayley Chambers
Address:Brecon Chase,
Minster,
Sheerness,
Kent,
ME12 2HX
Telephone: 01795 606458
Email: recruitment@tiltrust.org

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