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Administrative Assistant

Contract type: Permanent, full time, 37 hours per week, term time only.

Location: Based at Werneth School

Required from: Monday 30th October or as soon as possible there after

Salary: Scale 3 Point 5 - 6 £21,575 - £21,968 (pro rata £18,455.02 - £18,791.19)

Closing date : Friday 13th October 2023 at 12.00pm

Interview date : Wednesday 18th October 2023

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 450 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.

As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities


• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry


• opportunities for professional development and leadership


• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings


• Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

Job role

To support and provide the provision of an efficient and effective administration and clerical support service to the school

To provide a high-quality professional and pro-active customer service for the School’s busy reception area, dealing with all visitors and callers to the academy in a courteous, calm business-like manner, providing on all occasion’s assistance, directions and information as required.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.

All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).

Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Please return applications to recruitment@wernethschool.com for the attention of Emma Sorsby, School Business Manager.

If you would value an informal discussion about the post, please contact Emma Sorsby, School Business Manager 0161 494 1222 ext 1006.

Werneth School

Werneth School is an 11-16 comprehensive school in Stockport with over 1100 students of all abilities: we serve a wide range of student backgrounds and a supportive community. Housed in a purpose-built new building (opened November 2017) with new resources and interactive boards in every classroom, the school has been through a rapid period of change. Student numbers are increasing year-on-year and academic performance is improving. The school benefits from an exciting partnership with the Manchester United Foundation to raise aspiration in our students. The school has now joined the Education Learning Trust based at Gatley Primary School, converting to academy status in January 2021. We are already benefiting from the collaborative work of a family of 5 schools, including another secondary school.

Headteacher

Andrew Conroy