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Secretary/PA Administration - Part-time

The Abbey School, Faversham

  • Ref:KCC886-4242-49S
  • Posted:17/11/2017
  • Pay:KR4 £16,968-£17,826
  • Start Date:Jan 2017
  • App Close Date:27/11/2017 at 16:00
  • Interviews:30 November 2017

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The Abbey School wishes to appoint a well-organised and experienced person to work alongside the Additional Education Needs Department, using the school's management information system, SIMS.  

The working hours will be as follows:

25.5 hours per week for 39 weeks per year

The successful candidate will work as part of a team to provide analysis of students’ achievements as well as support in the administration of examinations. Applicants must be educated to ‘A’ level standard (or equivalent).  An excellent understanding of spreadsheet and word processing applications is essential. As well as inputting data, you will create and run reports from the system and carry out administrative and other duties, including ensuring that lessons are covered in the event of staff absence.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience in an administration role and possess a good working knowledge of SIMS (SEN, in particular), Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. They will have a flexible approach to tasks and be resilient under pressure. We are seeking a team player, who is able to organise their workload, and who has excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Information about the school

The Abbey School is a mixed secondary school with a thriving population of over 1200 students. We believe that school should be a place where young people can discover and develop their own talents. We have high expectations of all our students which are supported by consistently applied systems, structures, rituals and routines across our learning environment. We are a supportive school community including a positive staff team with high staff morale.

The Abbey school recently celebrated some robust results, with 45% of students achieving Maths and English at 4+ (an improvement of 34% from 2017), and record A level results with 52% of grades at A-C. The Abbey school is rated GOOD for quality of education by Ofsted.

The school is situated in the historic market town of Faversham. We aim to provide the highest quality value-added education and excellent pastoral care for all students.

The Abbey proudly joined The Howard Academy Trust on 01st April 2023, a highly successful Trust in which all schools have improved their Ofsted rating since joining or maintained their good rating.

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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.