Office Manager - Term Time

The Island Learning Trust

• Ref:KCC-F76-228-S
• Posted:29/08/2024
• Pay:KR6 £25127-£26383 with an actual salary of £22364
• Start Date:November 2024 or as soon as afterwards
• App Close Date:18/10/2024 at 12:00
• Interviews:ASAP following shortlisting

Advert

The Island Learning Trust has a rare and exciting opportunity to appoint an experienced, efficient and personable Office Manager to join our team at Halfway Houses Primary School. This is a unique opportunity to join and be part of a successful primary school serving the local community. The role of the Office Manager is a busy one; there is always plenty to do so we need an individual who can turn their hand to all requirements, and who can be flexible with day to day duties. Our ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and will manage the smooth day to day running of the administration process across the school. You will also be responsible for a small team of administrative assistants within the school. 

Experience of managing a busy school office is essential and experience using Arbor is desirable, as well as being proficient in the use of Word and Excel. A courteous and professional manner is essential as well as the ability to deal with sensitive issues in confidence.

This position is for 37 hours per week for 40 weeks of the year - term-time plus 2 weeks in the summer holidays.

If this sounds like the job for you, please do email Recruitment@tiltrust.org where we can answer any questions you may have or arrange for you to visit Halfway Houses.

Please also look on our Trust and school websites to find out more about The Island Learning Trust community and why we encourage everyone

                                           'to be the best they can be'.

*The Island Learning Trust reserves the right to withdraw this advert if a suitable candidate is appointed prior to the closing date*

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 checks for shortlisted candidates.  All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

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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Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Job description
• Child Protection Policy