Prep School Secretary & Administrative Assistant

Ware, Hertfordshire
St Edmunds College

Job Title: Prep School Secretary & Administrative Assistant

Location: Ware

Salary: £22,835.37

Job Type: Full-time

Working hours: 8:30 – 16:30, term-time only plus 1 week (5 days) spread over the school holidays

The Company:

St Edmund’s College offers modern facilities in a magnificent country setting in rural Hertfordshire, providing a safe and stimulating environment for young minds.

The Role:

We require a School Secretary & Administrative Assistant for our prestigious independent Prep School. You will support the Prep School Office in handling Secretarial and Administrative matters.

Main duties and Responsibilities:

You will receive visitors to our school and act as “front of house” for parents, students and staff. The job description (available on our website) sets out further information, but the main purpose of the role is to support the admin function of our school, including answering calls and responding, with initiative, to competing and live, in-person, queries.

About you:

You will have: a cheerful manner; the ability to work calmly under pressure and the ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people.

Qualifications:

• O’ level / GCSE standard minimum
• A-Level Standard

Experience:

• Experience of working in a busy role, dealing with daily enquiries by phone, email and in person

Additional benefits:

We offer a positive working atmosphere with a strong team; well-rounded and polite students; shorter term dates (available on our website) than state schools; a 400 acre site with leafy grounds and attractive school buildings; excellent catering facilities including school lunches; cakes and biscuits at break times; use of sports facilities (when not in use by students); free parking; Cycle to Work Scheme; Death in Service policy and salary exchange scheme; the opportunity to join in the delivery of co-curricular activities to our students (by negotiation); lieu time accrued when (rarely) there is a need to work beyond your contractual hours and a generous contributory pension scheme.

Whilst not in a teaching role, you will be working on a regular basis in a school in a role which gives opportunity for contact with children. As such, you will be in regulated activity and an enhanced DBS check (which includes children’s barred list information) will be required in advance of appointment.

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. As with all College staff members, you will therefore be responsible for providing a safe environment in which children can learn.

If you have the relevant skills for this role then please click Apply.

Closing date for applications when all forms must be received by HR is: Friday 12th January 2024.

Interviews to take place: As soon as possible.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of: School Admin Assistant, Administrative Officer, Office Administrator, Administration Clerk, General Administration, Office Assistant, Reception Administrator, Secretary, Support Administrator will all be considered.