9 Educational Institutions jobs in the United Kingdom
Solutions Consultant - Public Sector - Education and Research
Posted 6 days ago
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At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
**Who We Are**
We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.
As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!
**Your Career**
The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks. As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer's security transformation journey. You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer's key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer's cybersecurity partner of choice.
**Your Impact**
Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:
+ Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
+ Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
+ Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
+ Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
+ Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
+ Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
+ Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
+ Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
+ Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership
+ Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
+ (OT) - Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap
**Your Experience**
+ Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
+ Proven experience as a technical authority within the UK education and research sector, with a deep understanding of its unique challenges and a track record of architecting solutions that align with institutional goals while navigating key procurement frameworks
+ Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
+ Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role; prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal
+ Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements
+ Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
+ Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
+ Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
+ Proficient in English
**The Team**
Our Solutions Consultant team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire,and empower our potential clients in their journey to transform their security architectures.
You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. You won't find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn't committed to your success - with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. Our Solutions Consulting community is driven by the mission to be our customers' cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life.
**Our Commitment**
We're problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at .
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Executive Assistant - Academic Research Support
Posted 19 days ago
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Key Responsibilities:
- Manage complex and ever-changing calendars, scheduling meetings, appointments, and travel arrangements for senior academic staff.
- Coordinate and prepare materials for meetings, including agendas, minutes, and supporting documents.
- Handle confidential and sensitive information with the utmost discretion.
- Act as a primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, managing correspondence via email and phone.
- Assist with the preparation of research proposals, grant applications, and academic publications.
- Organise and coordinate academic events, conferences, and seminars.
- Manage travel logistics, including booking flights, accommodation, and preparing itineraries.
- Maintain and organise filing systems, both physical and digital, ensuring efficient record-keeping.
- Process expense claims and manage departmental budgets as directed.
- Provide general administrative support, including photocopying, scanning, and data entry.
- Liaise with university departments and external organisations as required.
- Anticipate the needs of the academic staff and proactively address potential issues.
- Proven experience as an Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant, or Senior Administrator, ideally within an academic or research-intensive environment.
- Exceptional organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks effectively.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and calendar management tools.
- High level of discretion and confidentiality.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, with a proactive and problem-solving attitude.
- Experience in coordinating travel arrangements and managing complex itineraries.
- Familiarity with academic research processes, grant applications, or university administration is highly desirable.
- A professional and positive demeanour.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
School Administrator
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School Administrator
Basic Salary: £20,422 FTE £3,492.04
Contract: Term Time Only
Hours: 37.5 hours
Benefits: Company Pension, Life Assurance, Employee Discount Scheme
Location: Northwich, Cheshire
Start Date: TBC
Are you ready to join a supportive and nurturing community that works together to achieve the very best outcomes for its pupils? If so, our new school in Ipswich could be the perfect place for you to develop your career and make a real difference to the lives of children and young people.
About the School
Located in Northwich, Cheshire our new school which can accommodate up to 100 pupils offers a safe and supportive environment for up to 30 pupils from 5 to 18 years old.
We are part of the Polaris Community and have been passionately improving the lives of young people for over 30 years. Within the Polaris Community, we have twelve SEN Schools across the UK that work together to provide each pupil with a tailored, diverse, and appropriate education in a safe, supportive environment that promotes engagement, inspires learning, and encourages achievement. We're also incredibly proud that 100% of our Education provisions have been rated as Good or Outstanding by Ofsted.
Role responsibilities
Polaris Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
- Promote the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils and visitors
- Promote and act on initiatives to improve Quality of Life and wellbeing for pupils and staff
Reception:
The school administrator will provide a warm welcome for parents, visitors and colleagues and deal with their requests in an efficient and professional manner
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Answer the telephone in a friendly, professional and efficient manner and record and pass on messages as appropriate
- Ensure visitors sign in, sign the safeguarding disclaimer and are provided with a visitor's badge
- Accurately maintain the shared calendar and update the school information
- Provide refreshments for visitors
- Work on parent's evening and other evening events as required
- Have an effective and efficient resource process, keeping the resource ordering up to date and chasing where appropriate
- Inform the relevant staff member when deliveries arrive
- Distribute internal and external post and correspondence as appropriate
- Arrange the ID cards for all new starters and governors for the School
- Liaise when necessary with transport services and taxi suppliers for pupil transport
- Support education staff with providing work experience opportunities for pupils
Administration:
Provide full administrative support to the Head Teacher, School Management Team and all other education staff at the school.
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Produce letters and memorandums
- Undertake filing and photocopying; to assist users with the operation of the photocopier including changing inks and attempting to resolve issues.
- Be responsible for the maintenance and monitoring of the photocopier
- Provide administration assistance as required by the Leadership Team including ordering resources
- Ensure all information is treated confidentially and have absolute discretion at all times
- Accurately minute meetings as directed by the SLT (and where relevant, telephone conversations) with parents/carers;
- Schedule and attend school-based meetings with parents/carers as necessary;
- Use IT hardware and relevant software packages efficiently and effectively to access, manage, retrieve and share the various types of information as and when required.
- Use all items of office equipment, such as the photocopier competently and keep up to date with developments and changes to such equipment
- Maintain filing systems, both paper and electronic, efficiently and in accordance with current systems and processes
- Ensure that documents are prepared, and data is entered onto SIMS
- Undertake stocktaking and ordering of materials and equipment as required
- Deal with school correspondence / emails and phone calls
- To support the Headteacher with Local Authority correspondence and Quality Assurance paperwork/visits
- Oversee and manage the school diary including room bookings and meeting schedules
Attendance:
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Monitor and track whole school attendance and punctuality and to send out letters where appropriate;
- Assist with the production of termly reports for the Head Teacher and Governing Body;
- Develop and maintain links with parents/children and the local authority's Educational Welfare Service;
- Monitor and ensure that correct attendance codes are entered in class registers and on SIMS;
- Contact parents/carers to establish the reasons for pupils' absenteeism by telephone and letters
- Work closely with the Deputy Head and Head Teacher to establish and agree upon authorised absences and agree actions accordingly
- Maintain and monitor the school's attendance records and produce returns and report as necessary
- Monitor and maintain an accurate computer record of pupil attendance
- Monitor the late arrival of pupils and maintain an accurate and up to date computer and paper-based records and files
- Advise and assist parents/carers to maintain regular school attendance of their children;
- Communicate clearly to parents/carers the attendance procedures and expectations of the school;
- Collect and analyse attendance data to enable identification and tracking of pupil attendance;
- Input daily attendance data onto the SIMS management system;
- Run reports for termly attendance and write certificates
Requirements
- Excellent Interpersonal and Communication Skills – Written and Oral.
- Knowledge and understanding of child protection and safeguarding practices and protocols
- Excellent Organisation Skills with a systematic approach to workload management.
- Excellent time management, planning and work prioritisation skills.
- Experience of developing systems and processes.
- Excellent understanding of Sims.
- Ability to work within allocated budgets and monitor expenditure and costs.
- Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice/legislation.
- Ability to plan and develop systems.
- Ability to relate well to children and adults.
- Work constructively as part of a team, understanding school roles and responsibilities and your own position within these.
- Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities.
- Confidentiality of information as appropriate.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS Check, cost of which will be met by Polaris Education.
Polaris Education is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £2 422.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
Work Location: In person
School Administrator
Posted 5 days ago
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Basic Salary: £20,422 FTE £23,492.04
Contract: Term Time Only
Hours: 37.5 hours
Benefits: Company Pension, Life Assurance, Employee Discount Scheme
Location: Northwich, Cheshire
Start Date: TBC
Are you ready to join a supportive and nurturing community that works together to achieve the very best outcomes for its pupils? If so, our new school in Ipswich could be the perfect place for you to develop your career and make a real difference to the lives of children and young people.
About the School
Located in Northwich, Cheshire our new school which can accommodate up to 100 pupils offers a safe and supportive environment for up to 30 pupils from 5 to 18 years old.
We are part of the Polaris Community and have been passionately improving the lives of young people for over 30 years. Within the Polaris Community, we have twelve SEN Schools across the UK that work together to provide each pupil with a tailored, diverse, and appropriate education in a safe, supportive environment that promotes engagement, inspires learning, and encourages achievement. We're also incredibly proud that 100% of our Education provisions have been rated as Good or Outstanding by Ofsted .
Role responsibilities
Polaris Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
- Promote the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils and visitors
- Promote and act on initiatives to improve Quality of Life and wellbeing for pupils and staff
Reception:
The school administrator will provide a warm welcome for parents, visitors and colleagues and deal with their requests in an efficient and professional manner
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Answer the telephone in a friendly, professional and efficient manner and record and pass on messages as appropriate
- Ensure visitors sign in, sign the safeguarding disclaimer and are provided with a visitor's badge
- Accurately maintain the shared calendar and update the school information
- Provide refreshments for visitors
- Work on parent's evening and other evening events as required
- Have an effective and efficient resource process, keeping the resource ordering up to date and chasing where appropriate
- Inform the relevant staff member when deliveries arrive
- Distribute internal and external post and correspondence as appropriate
- Arrange the ID cards for all new starters and governors for the School
- Liaise when necessary with transport services and taxi suppliers for pupil transport
- Support education staff with providing work experience opportunities for pupils
Administration:
Provide full administrative support to the Head Teacher, School Management Team and all other education staff at the school.
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Produce letters and memorandums
- Undertake filing and photocopying; to assist users with the operation of the photocopier including changing inks and attempting to resolve issues.
- Be responsible for the maintenance and monitoring of the photocopier
- Provide administration assistance as required by the Leadership Team including ordering resources
- Ensure all information is treated confidentially and have absolute discretion at all times
- Accurately minute meetings as directed by the SLT (and where relevant, telephone conversations) with parents/carers;
- Schedule and attend school-based meetings with parents/carers as necessary;
- Use IT hardware and relevant software packages efficiently and effectively to access, manage, retrieve and share the various types of information as and when required.
- Use all items of office equipment, such as the photocopier competently and keep up to date with developments and changes to such equipment
- Maintain filing systems, both paper and electronic, efficiently and in accordance with current systems and processes
- Ensure that documents are prepared, and data is entered onto SIMS
- Undertake stocktaking and ordering of materials and equipment as required
- Deal with school correspondence / emails and phone calls
- To support the Headteacher with Local Authority correspondence and Quality Assurance paperwork/visits
- Oversee and manage the school diary including room bookings and meeting schedules
Attendance:
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Monitor and track whole school attendance and punctuality and to send out letters where appropriate;
- Assist with the production of termly reports for the Head Teacher and Governing Body;
- Develop and maintain links with parents/children and the local authority's Educational Welfare Service;
- Monitor and ensure that correct attendance codes are entered in class registers and on SIMS;
- Contact parents/carers to establish the reasons for pupils' absenteeism by telephone and letters
- Work closely with the Deputy Head and Head Teacher to establish and agree upon authorised absences and agree actions accordingly
- Maintain and monitor the school's attendance records and produce returns and report as necessary
- Monitor and maintain an accurate computer record of pupil attendance
- Monitor the late arrival of pupils and maintain an accurate and up to date computer and paper-based records and files
- Advise and assist parents/carers to maintain regular school attendance of their children;
- Communicate clearly to parents/carers the attendance procedures and expectations of the school;
- Collect and analyse attendance data to enable identification and tracking of pupil attendance;
- Input daily attendance data onto the SIMS management system;
- Run reports for termly attendance and write certificates
Requirements
- Excellent Interpersonal and Communication Skills - Written and Oral.
- Knowledge and understanding of child protection and safeguarding practices and protocols
- Excellent Organisation Skills with a systematic approach to workload management.
- Excellent time management, planning and work prioritisation skills.
- Experience of developing systems and processes.
- Excellent understanding of Sims.
- Ability to work within allocated budgets and monitor expenditure and costs.
- Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice/legislation.
- Ability to plan and develop systems.
- Ability to relate well to children and adults.
- Work constructively as part of a team, understanding school roles and responsibilities and your own position within these.
- Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities.
- Confidentiality of information as appropriate.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS Check, cost of which will be met by Polaris Education.
Polaris Education is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
School Administrator
Posted 6 days ago
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Polaris Education - The Sutherland School, Tamworth
SCHOOL Administrator
Basic Salary: £20,422 FTE £23,492.04
Contract: Term Time Only
Hours: 37.5 hours
Benefits: Company Pension, Life Assurance, Employee Discount Scheme
Location: Tamworth, Staffs
Start Date: TBC
Are you ready to join a supportive and nurturing community that works together to achieve the very best outcomes for its pupils? If so, our new school in Ipswich could be the perfect place for you to develop your career and make a real difference to the lives of children and young people.
About the School
Located in Tamworth, our new school which can accommodate up to 60 pupils offers a safe and supportive environment for up to 30 pupils from 5 to 18 years old.
We are part of the Polaris Community and have been passionately improving the lives of young people for over 30 years. Within the Polaris Community, we have twelve SEN Schools across the UK that work together to provide each pupil with a tailored, diverse, and appropriate education in a safe, supportive environment that promotes engagement, inspires learning, and encourages achievement. We're also incredibly proud that 100% of our Education provisions have been rated as Good or Outstanding by Ofsted .
Role responsibilities
Polaris Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
- Promote the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils and visitors
- Promote and act on initiatives to improve Quality of Life and wellbeing for pupils and staff
Reception:
The school administrator will provide a warm welcome for parents, visitors and colleagues and deal with their requests in an efficient and professional manner
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Answer the telephone in a friendly, professional and efficient manner and record and pass on messages as appropriate
- Ensure visitors sign in, sign the safeguarding disclaimer and are provided with a visitor's badge
- Accurately maintain the shared calendar and update the school information
- Provide refreshments for visitors
- Work on parent's evening and other evening events as required
- Have an effective and efficient resource process, keeping the resource ordering up to date and chasing where appropriate
- Inform the relevant staff member when deliveries arrive
- Distribute internal and external post and correspondence as appropriate
- Arrange the ID cards for all new starters and governors for the School
- Liaise when necessary with transport services and taxi suppliers for pupil transport
- Support education staff with providing work experience opportunities for pupils
Administration:
Provide full administrative support to the Head Teacher, School Management Team and all other education staff at the school.
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Produce letters and memorandums
- Undertake filing and photocopying; to assist users with the operation of the photocopier including changing inks and attempting to resolve issues.
- Be responsible for the maintenance and monitoring of the photocopier
- Provide administration assistance as required by the Leadership Team including ordering resources
- Ensure all information is treated confidentially and have absolute discretion at all times
- Accurately minute meetings as directed by the SLT (and where relevant, telephone conversations) with parents/carers;
- Schedule and attend school-based meetings with parents/carers as necessary;
- Use IT hardware and relevant software packages efficiently and effectively to access, manage, retrieve and share the various types of information as and when required.
- Use all items of office equipment, such as the photocopier competently and keep up to date with developments and changes to such equipment
- Maintain filing systems, both paper and electronic, efficiently and in accordance with current systems and processes
- Ensure that documents are prepared, and data is entered onto SIMS
- Undertake stocktaking and ordering of materials and equipment as required
- Deal with school correspondence / emails and phone calls
- To support the Headteacher with Local Authority correspondence and Quality Assurance paperwork/visits
- Oversee and manage the school diary including room bookings and meeting schedules
Attendance:
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Monitor and track whole school attendance and punctuality and to send out letters where appropriate;
- Assist with the production of termly reports for the Head Teacher and Governing Body;
- Develop and maintain links with parents/children and the local authority's Educational Welfare Service;
- Monitor and ensure that correct attendance codes are entered in class registers and on SIMS;
- Contact parents/carers to establish the reasons for pupils' absenteeism by telephone and letters
- Work closely with the Deputy Head and Head Teacher to establish and agree upon authorised absences and agree actions accordingly
- Maintain and monitor the school's attendance records and produce returns and report as necessary
- Monitor and maintain an accurate computer record of pupil attendance
- Monitor the late arrival of pupils and maintain an accurate and up to date computer and paper-based records and files
- Advise and assist parents/carers to maintain regular school attendance of their children;
- Communicate clearly to parents/carers the attendance procedures and expectations of the school;
- Collect and analyse attendance data to enable identification and tracking of pupil attendance;
- Input daily attendance data onto the SIMS management system;
- Run reports for termly attendance and write certificates
Requirements
- Excellent Interpersonal and Communication Skills - Written and Oral.
- Knowledge and understanding of child protection and safeguarding practices and protocols
- Excellent Organisation Skills with a systematic approach to workload management.
- Excellent time management, planning and work prioritisation skills.
- Experience of developing systems and processes.
- Excellent understanding of Sims.
- Ability to work within allocated budgets and monitor expenditure and costs.
- Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice/legislation.
- Ability to plan and develop systems.
- Ability to relate well to children and adults.
- Work constructively as part of a team, understanding school roles and responsibilities and your own position within these.
- Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities.
- Confidentiality of information as appropriate.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS Check, cost of which will be met by Polaris Education.
Polaris Education is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
School Administrator
Posted 28 days ago
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Polaris Education Redstone Hall School
SCHOOL Administrator
Basic Salary: £20,422 FTE £23,492.04
Contract: Term Time Only
Hours: 37.5 hours
Benefits: Company Pension, Life Assurance, Employee Discount Scheme
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk
Start Date: TBC
Are you ready to join a supportive and nurturing community that works together to achieve the very best outcomes for its pupils? If so, our new school in Ipswich could be the perfect place for you to develop your career and make a real difference to the lives of children and young people.
About the School
Located in Ipswich, Suffolk our new school offers a safe and supportive environment for up to 30 pupils from 5 to 18 years old.
We are part of the Polaris Community and have been passionately improving the lives of young people for over 30 years. Within the Polaris Community, we have twelve SEN Schools across the UK that work together to provide each pupil with a tailored, diverse, and appropriate education in a safe, supportive environment that promotes engagement, inspires learning, and encourages achievement. We're also incredibly proud that 100% of our Education provisions have been rated as Good or Outstanding by Ofsted .
Role responsibilities
Polaris Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
- Promote the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils and visitors
- Promote and act on initiatives to improve Quality of Life and wellbeing for pupils and staff
Reception:
The school administrator will provide a warm welcome for parents, visitors and colleagues and deal with their requests in an efficient and professional manner
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Answer the telephone in a friendly, professional and efficient manner and record and pass on messages as appropriate
- Ensure visitors sign in, sign the safeguarding disclaimer and are provided with a visitor's badge
- Accurately maintain the shared calendar and update the school information
- Provide refreshments for visitors
- Work on parent's evening and other evening events as required
- Have an effective and efficient resource process, keeping the resource ordering up to date and chasing where appropriate
- Inform the relevant staff member when deliveries arrive
- Distribute internal and external post and correspondence as appropriate
- Arrange the ID cards for all new starters and governors for the School
- Liaise when necessary with transport services and taxi suppliers for pupil transport
- Support education staff with providing work experience opportunities for pupils
Administration:
Provide full administrative support to the Head Teacher, School Management Team and all other education staff at the school.
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Produce letters and memorandums
- Undertake filing and photocopying; to assist users with the operation of the photocopier including changing inks and attempting to resolve issues.
- Be responsible for the maintenance and monitoring of the photocopier
- Provide administration assistance as required by the Leadership Team including ordering resources
- Ensure all information is treated confidentially and have absolute discretion at all times
- Accurately minute meetings as directed by the SLT (and where relevant, telephone conversations) with parents/carers;
- Schedule and attend school-based meetings with parents/carers as necessary;
- Use IT hardware and relevant software packages efficiently and effectively to access, manage, retrieve and share the various types of information as and when required.
- Use all items of office equipment, such as the photocopier competently and keep up to date with developments and changes to such equipment
- Maintain filing systems, both paper and electronic, efficiently and in accordance with current systems and processes
- Ensure that documents are prepared, and data is entered onto SIMS
- Undertake stocktaking and ordering of materials and equipment as required
- Deal with school correspondence / emails and phone calls
- To support the Headteacher with Local Authority correspondence and Quality Assurance paperwork/visits
- Oversee and manage the school diary including room bookings and meeting schedules
Attendance:
Key Tasks and Activities:
- Monitor and track whole school attendance and punctuality and to send out letters where appropriate;
- Assist with the production of termly reports for the Head Teacher and Governing Body;
- Develop and maintain links with parents/children and the local authority's Educational Welfare Service;
- Monitor and ensure that correct attendance codes are entered in class registers and on SIMS;
- Contact parents/carers to establish the reasons for pupils' absenteeism by telephone and letters
- Work closely with the Deputy Head and Head Teacher to establish and agree upon authorised absences and agree actions accordingly
- Maintain and monitor the school's attendance records and produce returns and report as necessary
- Monitor and maintain an accurate computer record of pupil attendance
- Monitor the late arrival of pupils and maintain an accurate and up to date computer and paper-based records and files
- Advise and assist parents/carers to maintain regular school attendance of their children;
- Communicate clearly to parents/carers the attendance procedures and expectations of the school;
- Collect and analyse attendance data to enable identification and tracking of pupil attendance;
- Input daily attendance data onto the SIMS management system;
- Run reports for termly attendance and write certificates
Requirements
- Excellent Interpersonal and Communication Skills - Written and Oral.
- Knowledge and understanding of child protection and safeguarding practices and protocols
- Excellent Organisation Skills with a systematic approach to workload management.
- Excellent time management, planning and work prioritisation skills.
- Experience of developing systems and processes.
- Excellent understanding of Sims.
- Ability to work within allocated budgets and monitor expenditure and costs.
- Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice/legislation.
- Ability to plan and develop systems.
- Ability to relate well to children and adults.
- Work constructively as part of a team, understanding school roles and responsibilities and your own position within these.
- Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities.
- Confidentiality of information as appropriate.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS Check, cost of which will be met by Polaris Education.
Polaris Education is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
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School Administrator/Receptionist required for a school in Southend
Pertemps Education are pleased to be supporting one of our fantastic schools in their current search for a School Administrator/Receptionist, based in Southend .
At Pertemps, we're currently recruiting for a School Administrator/Receptionist in a school after building a strong relationship with a local grouping of schools. They are looking for an experienced School Administrator with experience using SIMS or Arbor ideally.
Must have Enhanced DBS on the update service
About the role:
Monday to Friday, 8am - 4pm
£14-17 per hour depending on experience
As a School Administrator/ Receptionist, you'll have experience in assisting the school office manager or similar with the day to day running of a busy office.
You will be responsible for looking after all forms of admin task, from answering the telephone to scanning, printing, filing, uploading documents to a digital system, dealing with parent and pupil liaison and much more.
This is a lovely but very fast paced role, which will require an individual to possess strong organisational skills and be calm and able to work under pressure, as school offices can quite often be hectic!
Key responsibilities can include but are not limited to:
- Day-to-day tasks, such as printing, scanning, filing, answering inbound queries, making outbound queries, parent liaison, safeguarding concerns, medical issues, and more.
- Ensuring that admin tasks and paperwork are completed efficiently and effectively, whilst maintaining a high quality of work.
- Liaising with both parents, carers, teachers and other school staff throughout the school day.
- Dealing with sensitive information and paperwork, sometimes relating to children and safeguarding or welfare issues.
- Ensuring school systems are up to date and information is uploaded to school systems accurately, including at times the use of systems such as SIMS, Bromcom, or ARBOR.
- Take responsibility for ordering equipment for the office staff as and when this is required in order for them to complete their roles.
- Answering the telephone and responding to parents via email as well as stepping in to complete ad-hoc tasks as and when the needs of the school require you to.
About you:
- Experience working within a school environment
- Must have experience using SIMS, Arbor, BROMCOM or similar
- A valid DBS on the DBS update service
- Experience of monitoring and logging attendance
About us:
We are Pertemps and we pride ourselves on being the best Education and Support staff based recruiter on the UK Market. With partnerships with some of the biggest trusts of schools, we have received glowing feedback over years of recruiting and provide a service that really makes us stand out from the rest.
- Get paid in line with AWR
- Your own dedicated consultant
- Wellbeing support, travel discounts, and retail offers from our partners
How to apply:
You can apply for this role below or get in touch with us directly. All applicants require the appropriate qualifications, and all teachers require a formally-recognised teaching qualification.
If you are not contacted within 2 working days, unfortunately, you have been unsuccessful for this role.
All candidates must have a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before starting work. Full assistance provided.
By applying for this role, you are consenting to Pertemps Education group storing your personal details in our fully encrypted database, in line with the GDPR requirements. This will also mean that you may be contacted by one of our consultants to discuss other potential opportunities that they think are well suited to your capabilities.
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School Administrator/Receptionist required for a school in Southend
Pertemps Education are pleased to be supporting one of our fantastic schools in their current search for a School Administrator/Receptionist, based in Southend .
At Pertemps, we're currently recruiting for a School Administrator/Receptionist in a school after building a strong relationship with a local grouping of schools. They are looking for an experienced School Administrator with experience using SIMS or Arbor ideally.
Must have Enhanced DBS on the update service
About the role:
Monday to Friday, 8am - 4pm
£14-17 per hour depending on experience
As a School Administrator/ Receptionist, you'll have experience in assisting the school office manager or similar with the day to day running of a busy office.
You will be responsible for looking after all forms of admin task, from answering the telephone to scanning, printing, filing, uploading documents to a digital system, dealing with parent and pupil liaison and much more.
This is a lovely but very fast paced role, which will require an individual to possess strong organisational skills and be calm and able to work under pressure, as school offices can quite often be hectic!
Key responsibilities can include but are not limited to:
- Day-to-day tasks, such as printing, scanning, filing, answering inbound queries, making outbound queries, parent liaison, safeguarding concerns, medical issues, and more.
- Ensuring that admin tasks and paperwork are completed efficiently and effectively, whilst maintaining a high quality of work.
- Liaising with both parents, carers, teachers and other school staff throughout the school day.
- Dealing with sensitive information and paperwork, sometimes relating to children and safeguarding or welfare issues.
- Ensuring school systems are up to date and information is uploaded to school systems accurately, including at times the use of systems such as SIMS, Bromcom, or ARBOR.
- Take responsibility for ordering equipment for the office staff as and when this is required in order for them to complete their roles.
- Answering the telephone and responding to parents via email as well as stepping in to complete ad-hoc tasks as and when the needs of the school require you to.
About you:
- Experience working within a school environment
- Must have experience using SIMS, Arbor, BROMCOM or similar
- A valid DBS on the DBS update service
- Experience of monitoring and logging attendance
About us:
We are Pertemps and we pride ourselves on being the best Education and Support staff based recruiter on the UK Market. With partnerships with some of the biggest trusts of schools, we have received glowing feedback over years of recruiting and provide a service that really makes us stand out from the rest.
- Get paid in line with AWR
- Your own dedicated consultant
- Wellbeing support, travel discounts, and retail offers from our partners
How to apply:
You can apply for this role below or get in touch with us directly. All applicants require the appropriate qualifications, and all teachers require a formally-recognised teaching qualification.
If you are not contacted within 2 working days, unfortunately, you have been unsuccessful for this role.
All candidates must have a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before starting work. Full assistance provided.
By applying for this role, you are consenting to Pertemps Education group storing your personal details in our fully encrypted database, in line with the GDPR requirements. This will also mean that you may be contacted by one of our consultants to discuss other potential opportunities that they think are well suited to your capabilities.