PA to Senior Leaders - Term Time

Five Acre Wood School, Maidstone

• Ref:KCC886-7056-590S
• Posted:24/04/2024
• Pay:£24,450.60 including FAW allowance
• Start Date:TBC
• App Close Date:08/05/2024 at 10:00
• Interviews:TBC

Advert

Five Acre Wood is a successful, outward looking and expanding District Special School based over 3 sites in and around Maidstone, Kent. We currently have over 750 pupils on roll aged 2-19 years with profound, severe and complex needs.

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic, hard-working PA to Senior Leaders to provide an efficient and organised administrative service to designated Senior Leaders.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Manage and maintain the designated Senior Leaders’ diaries and discuss upcoming appointments, invitations and other requests as required. Add EHCP meetings and Performance Management meetings to relevant electronic diaries.
• Attend and take minutes at internal meetings led by designated Senior Leaders when required. Produce and share agendas for Strategic Teaching and Learning SLT meetings and email action points following the meeting. Attend and take minutes for Safeguarding meetings.
• Produce lesson observation schedules, adding dates to designated Senior Leaders’ diaries and informing staff as necessary.
• Work with Deputy Head to organise annual SCERTS course, take bookings and attend on the day to set up/provide refreshments.
• Provide support to Head of School for school events eg music videos and festivals, to include drafting communications to parents, ordering items, collating pupil permissions slips and assisting with timetables, where required.
• Schedule termly EYFS supervision meetings and add to relevant Senior Leaders’ diaries.
• Monitor PA and SLT Admin email accounts and highlight urgent correspondence.
• Book meeting rooms, as requested and ensure that rooms are set up with refreshments provided. Manage and approve requests for room bookings.
• Greet visitors and escort them to the relevant location.
• Typing, minute taking and photocopying as requested by designated Senior Leaders.
• Maintain pupil safeguarding files. Log and confirm receipt of pupil safeguarding files.
• Provide admin support to Assistant Head for transition process.
• Cover reception as required.
• Any other duties as requested by designated Senior Leaders, Principal or Principal’s PA.

Our achievements include Ofsted “Outstanding”, and the WAS “Wellbeing Award” which recognises how we look after employees and pupils.

The role is term time only, working 37 hours per week, the hours will be 8am – 4pm, finishing at 3.30pm one day per week.

FTE salary for the post is £23,445.55 including FAW allowance.

In addition to the salary there are opportunities for professional development, a generous KCC pension scheme and Kent Rewards which has access to discounts at food shops, retailers, restaurants and cinemas.

The job description and person specification for the post is attached to this advert.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Human Resources Team

Information about the school

Five Acre Wood is a successful outward looking and expanding Special School based over 4 sites in and around Maidstone, Kent. We are one of the largest special schools in the country with over 800 pupils on roll aged 2-19 years with profound, severe and complex needs.

Our ‘Outstanding’ school will continue to expand and we are looking for people with a positive approach to join us who share our vision of ‘Only the best will do’ for all our students and staff. We are a Teaching School and part of a collaborative alliance with other special schools. We have been awarded The Schools Wellbeing Award for pupils and staff which demonstrates we really value our people and want to work with them to fulfil their career ambitions.

In addition to your salary, FAW allowance and pension benefits, we have excellent additional staff benefits including:

Confidential staff counselling service A wellbeing app and platform A range of staff social and well-being events Annual flu vaccinations

Sometimes words cannot explain how something really is, we would encourage you to view the links below:

We hold an annual music festival for our pupils, it gives them the opportunity experience something they may not ordinarily be able to access. You can see it here.

Woodstock 2023 – Woodstock 2023 Festival at Five Acre Wood School - YouTube

Woodstock 2022 - Woodstock 2022 Festival at Five Acre Wood Schools - YouTube

Woodstock 2019 - Five Acre Wood School's "Woodstock 2019" - Amazing Festival in a Day! (Longer Film) - YouTube

We produced our own songs and music videos, you can watch them here: -

Beautiful – Five Acre Wood School featuring Taryn Charles - Youtube

Five Acre Wood School Featuring Jack Rose - Hall Of Fame - YouTube

Don’t Give Up – Nathan Grisdale and Five Acre Wood School - YouTube

We look forward to hearing from you.

Five Acre Wood is committed to the safeguarding of all its pupils, you will therefore be subject to an enhanced disclosure process. As part of our responsibility for safeguarding, in addition to the Kent policy of one employment and one personal reference, the school will request additional employment references. The school will also, as outlined in Keeping children Safe in Education 2022, complete an online search for shortlisted candidates.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Nicola Devereux
• Address:Boughton Lane, Maidstone , Kent, ME15 9QF
• Telephone: (01622) 743925
• Email: hr@five-acre.kent.sch.uk

Fax: 01622 744828

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• PA to Senior Leaders