School Business Support Officer 1
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SCHOOL BUSINESS SUPPORT OFFICER 2
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TEACHING ASSISTANT LEVEL 1 – PERMANENT
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TEACHING ASSISTANT LEVEL 1 – CASUAL
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School Business Support Officer 1

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, enthusiastic and well organised person to be responsible for the Reception Area within a busy school office. Receiving visitors, answering phone calls, letters, and emails and/or directing these communications to the correct member of staff. Making visitors to the campus feel welcome and answering all of their questions.

The successful candidate will need a warm, friendly manner, have excellent communication and IT skills, be highly motivated, have relevant experience and be able to use their own initiative. 

The proposed hours are 37 hrs per week. 8:30am-4:30pm Monday to Thursday and 8:30am-4:00pm on a Friday. 

This position is full time, term time + 2 weeks (including Inset). Please note that the salary quoted is full time equivalent. If successful, the salary received will be paid on a pro-rata basis.

• Essential Qualifications:
  GCSE Maths & English A-C or equivalent Level 2
• Desirable Qualifications
  Business Administration Qualification
  ECDL
  Microsoft qualification
• Essential Experience
  2 years working in a busy office environment
  Microsoft office
• Desirable experience
  Online data entry systems
  Minute taking

Please note CVs are not accepted, to apply for this vacancy you need to complete the application form below. Completed applications must be submitted electronically to the hradmin@pchs.lancs.sch.uk.

The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Act 1975. If successful, you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service for a ‘disclosure’. Rehabilitation of offenders Act 1974 – details of any criminal record spent or unspent should be sent to the Chair of Governors c/o school address by 31st October 2021.

School Business Support Officer 2

The Governors are seeking to appoint a highly motivated individual to the team within a busy school office. We are looking for an individual who is able to under supervision maintain, update and extract information from systems and database and provide general administrative/clerical/financial support for the school. This could include producing financial and management information and/or the provision of general advice and guidance to pupils, parents and staff or call for the use of higher level text processing/spreadsheet/IT skills or audio typing that involves the use of a range of software packages. 

The successful candidate will need a warm, friendly manner, have excellent communication and IT skills, be highly motivated, have relevant experience and be able to use their own initiative. With a high standard of written English.

The appropriate individual would also be able expected to:

• Provide general clerical and administrative support, including word processing, minute taking, filing routine correspondence, distributing mail etc.
• Routine financial administration, including petty cash, postage, banking and weekly school bulletin.
• Maintaining and updating manual and computerised records including, for example, records of free school meals, school trips, registers, examinations etc including related financial administration.
• Updating information on our school website including communications to parents.
• Production of regular management information, including financial data and assist in the production of reports for the senior leadership team
• Monitoring of monthly budgets and advising senior staff on variances.
• Undertake reconciliations, for example of bank accounts and petty cash and of the purchase ledger control account.
• Undertake reception duties including answering telephone and responding to routine queries, including, where appropriate, dealing with visitors on behalf of Headteacher
• Supporting with annual review paperwork with an emphasis on proof reading.
• Maintaining stock and ordering supplies, including the processing of orders, check of incoming deliveries, obtaining prices from occasional suppliers, arranging for payment of invoices and the distribution and storage of stock.
• General welfare support, where required, including the responsibility for pursuing pupil absence with parents including recording and monitoring of absence and production of reports.

• Essential Qualifications
  GCSE Maths & English A-C or equivalent Level 2
  Business Administration Qualification
• Desirable Qualifications
  ECDL
  Microsoft qualification
  Accounting qualification
• Essential Experience
  Experience in working in an office environment
  Experience of Microsoft IT software packages
• Desirable experience
  Experience in working in a school environment
  Experience in school’s financial systems i.e. SIMs/FMS/PFM
  Experience with on-line payment systems

Please note CVs are not accepted, to apply for this vacancy you need to complete the application form below. Completed applications must be submitted electronically to hradmin@pchs.lancs.sch.uk

The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Act 1975. If successful, you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service for a ‘disclosure’. Rehabilitation of offenders Act 1974 – details of any criminal record spent or unspent should be sent to the Chair of Governors c/o school address by 31st October 2021.

Teaching Assistant Level 1 – Permanent

Start Date: Tuesday 4th January 2022 or earlier if available.

Pendle Community High School and College (PCHS&C) is an outstanding, co-located, community special school for students with generic learning difficulties. We currently have 159 students on roll (ages 11 -19), with a variety of special educational needs including autistic spectrum disorders, speech, language and communication needs, and physical, medical and/or sensory needs.

We are seeking to appoint two Teaching Assistants Level 1 to primarily support classes of students within school.

Pendle Community High School and College moved into new purpose-built accommodation in 2008, where it is co-located with a mainstream secondary school. Our school and college both therefore provide an exciting and enriching environment, with a range of opportunities for social and educational inclusion.

The successful candidates would be joining a highly committed and dynamic staff team making a real difference to the lives of families, carers and young people with special educational needs.

Informal, pre-application visits have been arranged as follows: 
Wednesday 3rd November 10:00am – 11:00am or Friday 5th November 1.30 -2.30am

If you would like to visit at these times or require any additional information, please inform Mrs Alison Boothman – HR Admin on 01282 682260.

 Please note that L2 qualifications in Maths and English are essential requirements for this post.

Completed applications must be submitted electronically to Mrs Alison Boothman, HR Administrator: hradmin@pchs.lancs.sch.uk

The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Act 1975. If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service for a ‘disclosure’. Rehabilitation of offenders Act 1974 – details of any criminal record spent or unspent should be sent to the Chair of Governors c/o school address by 8th November 2021.

Teaching Assistant Level 1 – Casual

Start Date: Tuesday 4th January 2022 or earlier if available.

Pendle Community High School and College (PCHS&C) is an outstanding, co-located, community special school for students with generic learning difficulties. We currently have 159 students on roll (ages 11 -19), with a variety of special educational needs including autistic spectrum disorders, speech, language and communication needs, and physical, medical and/or sensory needs.

We are seeking to appoint a number of Teaching Assistants Level 1 to primarily support classes of students within school in a casual and flexible capacity.

Pendle Community High School and College moved into new purpose-built accommodation in 2008, where it is co-located with a mainstream secondary school. Our school and college both therefore provide an exciting and enriching environment, with a range of opportunities for social and educational inclusion.

The successful candidates would be joining a highly committed and dynamic staff team making a real difference to the lives of families, carers and young people with special educational needs.

Informal, pre-application visits have been arranged as follows: 
Wednesday 3rd November 10:00am – 11:00am or Friday 5th November 1.30 -2.30am

If you would like to visit at these times or require any additional information, please inform Mrs Alison Boothman – HR Admin on 01282 682260.

 Please note that L2 qualifications in Maths and English are essential requirements for this post.

Completed applications must be submitted electronically to Mrs Alison Boothman, HR Administrator: hradmin@pchs.lancs.sch.uk

The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Act 1975. If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service for a ‘disclosure’. Rehabilitation of offenders Act 1974 – details of any criminal record spent or unspent should be sent to the Chair of Governors c/o school address by 8th November 2021.