Assistant to the Chief Operations Officer - Part-time

The Viking Academy Trust

Ref:KCC-F20-55-S
Posted:13/01/2021
Pay:KR5: £19,723 pro-rata (approx. £12,696 per annum)
Start Date:January 2022
App Close Date:10/01/2022 at 12:00
Interviews:Week beginning 17th January 2022

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Assistant to the Chief Operations Officer required at the Viking Academy Trust

Viking Academy Trust is looking for an Assistant to the Chief Operations Officer to join our Trust Central team. The successful candidate will join the Viking Academy Trust to help support the Viking Payroll and HR Services and to assist with other operational matters.

The Assistant to the Chief Operations Officer will support the Chief Operations Officer in administering an efficient, professional and effective Trust-Wide Human Resources service to all Viking employees ensuring timely responses to employee queries and ensuring the information that feeds into our payroll system is accurate and up to date.

The successful candidate will be supremely organised, process driven and determined to ensure that new starter recruitment documents are returned quickly and efficiently so the Trust can fulfil the safer recruitment and Keeping Children Safe in Education obligations.

A brief summary of duties will include:

Managing safer recruitment
Managing staff absence
Being the first point of contact for all employee queries
Co-ordination of the induction of new Viking employees
Carrying out DBS checks for new staff and volunteers
Managing the Single Central Records for each school
Ensuring the completion of the individual school workforce censuses.
Auditing HR files (including electronic records) to ensure compliance including adherence to GDPR.
General HR reporting
Maintenance of our confidential electronic HR records
General office duties and HR administration
Other operational matters as and when they arise

For more information about the role and tasks, please download our HR Administrator job description and person specification.

The role will be for 27 hours per week, term time only plus two weeks, Kent Range 5, £19,723 - £20,893 pro-rata (approximately £12,696 per annum).

Above all you need to like children, to want the very best for them & be prepared to put their needs first. Children will be at the heart of your work. You must be able to demonstrate that you understand the importance of educating the whole child within a creative & innovative school setting.

Whilst not essential, visits to our school are encouraged, so please contact Lisa Blatchford, Chief Operations Officer, on 01843 597695 to arrange.

The deadline to apply is the 10th January however should this post attract sufficient interest and we are inundated with applications, we may choose to close at an earlier date. We strongly suggest that you apply at an early stage.

Information about the trust

The Viking Academy Trust is a primary only, Multi-Academy Trust consisting of three inspirational schools: Upton Junior School, Chilton Primary School and Ramsgate Arts Primary School.

Our One Childhood One Chance philosophy resonates throughout everything we do at the Viking Academy Trust.

At Viking, we make sure that our ultimate focus and core purpose remains excellent teaching and learning for every child. Our teaching is progressive and adaptive and we strive for the best outcomes for all. We invest time and training into our staff so that they can invest their skills and expertise into our children.

For children to thrive, they need to feel that they belong. Our people and our environments are warm and welcoming. Every member of our staff invests in building strong relationships with children and getting to know children well means we can focus on equity of opportunity.

This means that we can prioritise social and emotional learning along with the academic as we know that children need to learn how to be resilient, to have healthy and safe relationships and to face the world with problem solving skills.

We nurture children to become responsible citizens, ready to face the modern world and to make the most of their every potential both academically and socially. At Viking schools, we have high standards and expectations and we know how to support children to reach them.

Job Contact Information

Name:Lisa Blatchford, HR Director
Address:Upton Junior School,
Edge End Road,
Broadstairs,
Kent,
CT10 2AH
Telephone: 01843 861393
Email: hrd@vikingacademytrust.com

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