School Administrator
Job Description
?Horizon Care and Education Group are recruiting for a committed and passionate individual for a permanent opportunity within Brewood School in Deal, Kent!
Brewood School is a co- educational, independent, specialist day school providing high quality education for secondary aged boys and girls. Based in Kent, the school meets the needs of a diverse group of pupils with special educational needs including speech, language and communication difficulties, autism, ADHD, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties.
As our School Administrator, you will work closely with the Head Teacher, playing a key role in ensuring that everything runs as efficiently as possible. This role is far from a general administrator role, as you will be a key player in the success of the school. No two days are the same, and when you aren’t organising paperwork and ensuring the reception service is spot on, you may be helping to gather supplies for lessons, spending time with our students, or even taking part yourself!
As an administrator you will:
- Be point of contact for the Head Teacher
- Process admissions paperwork and keep vital records up to date, such as attendance registers
- Take care of purchases and petty cash returns, from all staff
- Organise room/facilities bookings for the school
- Collate reports as requested
- Be the friendly voice at the end of the phone for incoming/outgoing calls
- Complete duties to facilitate school registration
- Carry out annual reviews of paperwork, and keep contracts up to date
- Continue to bring historical data together to show progress and administrative integrity
- General administrative duties as directed by Head Teacher
- Build relationships with our students, and be a trusted person in their school
- Know our school inside and out, and be passionate about the work we do
Why work for us?
- Competitive pay rates
- Occupational sick pay
- Christmas bonus
- Blue Light Card
- Colleague referral scheme with cash rewards – earn up to £2500 per referral!*
- Financial wellbeing service
- Life Assurance
- Tastecard – spectacular savings on dining, pizza, cinema tickets, supermarkets, and UK attractions!
- Opportunity to progress in your career through our Education Academy, and ongoing training and professional development.
- Comprehensive and tailored induction programme including face-to-face training, online modules, shadowing, and local induction period.
- Face-to-face therapeutic training and support for all colleagues via our SHINE programme.
- Access to a wide range of free online courses for all colleagues on a variety of topics
- Employee assistance programme – free, confidential support via Bupa.
- Supportive management and senior leaders.
- High quality CPD opportunities.
- Free eye checks.
- Community and wellbeing– Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need to feel good about what you do. We’re in this together.
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To start your journey with Horizon, click apply now!
Horizon Care and Education Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and has an expectation that all staff share this commitment. This post is subject to satisfactory references an enhanced DBS disclosure which will be met by the employer.