School Administrator - South London - £19-£24k - Special Needs School

A top London special needs school requires a bright, accurate and personable administrator. The candidate must have previous school experience and be in possession of an enhanced DBS certificate.

Duties:

-Daily reception management & administration (receiving and making phonecalls, inbox
management, signing in visitors, paper and electronic filing and data management,
monitoring daily pupil & staff attendance, printing, photocopying, laminating, etc.)
- Data entry and maintenance of a range of logs
- To provide a confidential administrative service to senior leaders including drafting
correspondence, arranging meetings, diary management, etc.
- To provide an efficient and effective administrative service to the school including
confidential typing and data entry, and minuting of meetings

- To be responsible for data entry, in liaison with other administrators

- To assist in the accurate recording of financial transactions and ensure that records are
maintained and receipts relating to all expenditure are verified, correct and balanced
- To be responsible for the reception of visitors and for the handling of telephone and email
enquiries, dealing with queries as far as possible and referring them as necessary
- To process letters, newsletters and progress packs to parents & carers, printing and
ensuring distribution is in line with deadlines
- To maintain filing and other information systems ensuring confidentiality is maintained.
- To oversee and process all incoming and outgoing post/deliveries
- To carry out other such administrative duties as may be required from time to time to meet
the needs of the schools
- To implement the schools’ Equality Policy fully and to work actively to overcome and to
prevent and challenge discrimination against any of the protected characteristics as per the
Equality Act 2010.
- To interact positively, professionally and patiently with our pupils, who have severe social,
emotional, behavioural and mental health needs
- To oversee the safe and secure management of pupil medication
- To attend whole-staff child protection & safeguarding training and to know and implement
the schools’ child protection and safeguarding policy
- To ensure that all aspects of the work undertaken are kept confidential at all times
- To comply with any reasonable request made by the line manager which may not
necessarily appear within this job description