Job Description

Are you a school or college leaver looking to start your career in a busy and rewarding school environment?

We're looking for a motivated and organised Admin Apprentice to join our friendly team. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience while working towards a nationally recognised qualification.

Under the guidance of senior staff, you will provide general administrative, clerical and reception support to help our school run smoothly. Your responsibilities will include:

Filing, photocopying, emailing and responding to routine enquiries Updating records and managing databases Assisting in preparing reports, circulars and meeting notes Supporting the reception area and handling mail Helping with school event arrangements and basic finance tasks Operating standard IT systems and equipment (Word, Excel, email, etc.)

Who we're looking for:

This role would suit a recent school or college leaver with good communication skills, a willingness to learn, and a positive attitude. You should be IT literate, reliable, and keen to build a career in administration.

Working Hours: 37 hours per week, 38 Term time weeks plus 5 Inset Days (39 weeks per year total)

Contract type: Fixed term, up to 24 months

We are proud of our long history serving the local community and relish the challenge of preparing our students for their futures as leaders in the 21st. century. As a relatively small secondary school, we are uniquely placed to care for each child as an individual. We take pride in providing a friendly, nurturing and welcoming environment for learning for all students, regardless of background or prior achievement and where our students are given the skills, experiences and qualifications necessary for them to take charge of their own destinies.

Our relentless focus on ensuring the highest academic standards has placed us amongst the top performing schools in the area based on sustained improvement.

We strive to keep our core values at the heart of all we do on our collective mission of inspiring excellence

In addition to providing the highest quality teaching for successful learning in lessons, we are passionate about providing excellent enrichment opportunities beyond the classroom, so that all of our students have a rewarding and enjoyable time with us as they develop their interests and talents.

A positive growth mindset underpins our approach to developing a learning culture where effort, resilience and learning from our mistakes are seen as the key to unlocking outstanding attainment.

Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff) Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years' service including Bank Holidays) Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme. Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being. Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands. Free Eye Tests Cycle to work scheme Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

We know our people are the key to our success and so we're committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.

Shaw Education Trust

are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We're a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.

In our secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach to curriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for all students, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculum models don't always engage all students, so we constantly seek to innovate and provide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. We want our students to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful, and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of our innovation include moving towards an extended school day, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunities for essential skills like reading and cultural capital. We are also introducing vocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal school curriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities to develops work-readiness in our students, so that they can progress onto T Levels and apprenticeships.

We are currently at an exciting point in their evolution, with collaboration at the heart of our collective endeavour. We don't operate in silos: we value the power of the pack and strive to collaborate as a collective, ensuring no school or colleague is left behind. We are currently co-constructing an aligned curriculum across all EBacc curriculum subjects, to create a world class curriculum, rich in powerful knowledge and skills. This is driving up standards through the sharing of the very best practice, whilst allowing each school sufficient flexibility for autonomy to do what is right for their local context. A by-product of this approach has been the reduction in planning workload for colleagues, meaning they can spend more time on the things that matter and fostering strong relationships with pupils and delivery of the curriculum.

Safeguarding Statement:

Madeley School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including an online checks and criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions.

All shortlisted candidates will undergo an online search as part of Trust safer recruitment.

We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date as we review applications on an on-going basis and interviews may be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, therefore, we encourage early applications.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV's alone will not be accepted.

We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date, therefore, we encourage early applications.

Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract, Apprenticeship
Contract length: 24 months

Benefits:

Free parking On-site parking
Schedule:

Monday to Friday No weekends
Work Location: In person