- Vacancy Reference
- JOB003017
- Job Title
- Administration Assistant
- Job Start Date
- 28 April 2025
- Salary Range
- £24,027 to £25,992 pro rata, subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review
- Hours Per Week
- 20
- Working Pattern
- Term time only
- School Address
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Highfield Nursery School
Highfield Road
Washwood Heath
Birmingham
B8 3QF
Telephone number: 0121 675 4617 - Contact Email
- s.carter@hifieldn.bham.sch.uk
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Closing Date
- 7 February 2025, 12:00 midday
- Job Information
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The Executive Head Teacher and Governors wish to appoint an Administrative Assistant for 20 hours per week term time only.
We are looking for an Administrative Assistant to support the smooth running of the office and assist with the day to day duties of school life. At Highfield Nursery School we pride ourselves on our warm and welcoming approach. The role will be to support and work closely with the Office Manager.
Highfield Nursery School operates on 2 sites. Our main nursery school is on the main site but we also offer nursery provision at Dyson Gardens. In your role you would be expected to support admin functions across both sites.
Highfield Nursery School is part of The Birmingham Federation of Maintained Nursery Schools which consist of 9 Local Authority Maintained Nursery Schools.
The role is a busy front facing position within the main office and will involve general office duties with a focus on:
• pupil admissions including the inputting of confidential pupil data, in year transfers, leavers and entering all other related information on the school MIS
• daily monitoring of pupil attendance, compiling accurate information when required for the senior leadership team
• preparation of the school admission applications
• attendance procedures (including phone calls and data entry)
• answering the telephone and dealing with queries in person, via email and on the telephone
• meeting and greeting visitors to school
• accurate and consistent record keeping
• using IT systems to produce letters, emails, and reports
- This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
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How to apply:
For further details and application pack please email: s.carter@hifieldn.bham.sch.uk
Interviews will take place on Thursday 27 February 2025.
- Safeguarding
- This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
- enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
- References
- All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
- Short-listed candidates
- An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
- Terms and Conditions
- BCC is a Living Wage employer.
- Rehabilitation of Offenders
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
- Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
- Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.