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Office Support Assistant - Fixed Term - Special Needs Position

Shenstone School, Crayford

  • Ref:KCC303-7001-71S
  • Posted:23/09/2022
  • Pay:£19,331 (Actual salary)
  • Start Date:Immediate
  • App Close Date:07/10/2022 at 23:45
  • Interviews:14/10/2022

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Post Title                                 Office Support Assistant

Post Location                           Shenstone School Belvedere

Contract Type:                          Temporary Fixed-term contract until 31st August 2023.

                                                36 hours per week (8.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.) (45 minutes lunch)

                                                39 weeks per year (term time only + plus training days)

 Grade:                                      Bexley 05 (£12.03 per hour)

 Salary:                                      £22,575 (full-time equivalent)

                                                £19,331 (Actual salary)

Post Start Date:                         ASAP

Closing Date:                            7th October 2022

Interview Date:                         14th October 2022

We are looking for an efficient, professional and meticulously organised candidate to join our friendly and supportive office team.  If you are looking for a new challenge and can provide administration/secretarial duties along with exceptional customer services skills, then we would welcome your application.   You will be working in a special needs school setting and would be liaising with children with behavioural needs which vary from child to child so you will need to be confident and resilient in working with challenging behaviour.  Shenstone School has three school sites and you would mainly be based at Belvedere site but when necessary could be required to work at Crayford and Sidcup sites.

 

Information about the school

Shenstone School is an all-through specialist school for children and young people with severe and/or profound and multiple learning difficulties. Although we currently have a temporary facility for our secondary students, a specially adapted secondary school is currently being built in Halt Robin Road, Belvedere. We opened our doors to our secondary provision in September 2022 when we welcomed our first cohort of pupils and we now currently have one year 8 and two year 7 classes.

Our staff are passionate about providing our students with the best learning opportunities. Working in partnership with parents and carers, we successfully foster and develop a positive attitude in our young people and support them to have opportunities that will allow them to achieve beyond their expectations. The support and guidance students receive from staff give them the confidence to learn independently and strive to achieve their most aspirational outcomes. The school positions itself as a centre of excellence for its students, parents/carers, staff, local authorities and the wider community.

We aim to ensure that all students have the maximum opportunity to participate fully in society to enhance their life chances. We pride ourselves on ensuring that learning remains purposeful but is equally fun. We are committed to supporting the emotional health and well-being of all our students, staff and parents/carers, and we stand by our motto of “Together we engage, thrive and achieve”.

We are very proud of Shenstone School and our achievements, which include autism accreditation through the National Autistic Society, The Wellbeing Award for Schools, Outstandingly Happy School status, Move Centre of Excellence Award, National Online Safety Certified School status, and we are also an accredited Arts Award Centre. We continue to expand with new ideas and initiatives to maintain and improve services for students and staff.

Staff at Shenstone School can access the following benefits: excellent induction and probation processes, comprehensive in-house training, competitive pension scheme, employee counselling services, vaccination programmes, on-site mental health first aid team and various other well-being and social activities.

Job Contact Information

  • Name:Georgia Bissett
  • Address:94 Old Road, Crayford, Kent, DA1 4DZ
  • Telephone: 01322 524145
  • Email: hr@shenstone-tkat.org

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.