Job Description

Job title: Apprentice Business Support Officer

Grade: Apprentice Rate

Working Pattern: 37 hours per week; 8:00am - 4pm Monday to Thursday, Friday 08:00am - 3:30pm

Term-time only

Contract Type: Fixed Term

All Saints' Roman Catholic High School is a small and friendly school. It is an exciting time to be joining the warm and welcoming team; with construction well underway for a brand new, state of the art school building in a beautiful setting. It is a community in which pupils are happy and where every child is known and valued.

The Board of Directors of the Romero Catholic Academy Trust alongside The Governors of All Saints' RC High School are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Apprentice Business Support Officer to join our team.

An Apprentice Business Support Officer is required to join our busy school office, to provide front line administrative support. The successful candidate will be working within the Main School Office and will support the school providing routine support to teachers, pupils and parents.

This role will be fast-paced and varied and will involve handling a wide range of administration responsibilities

For further details of the responsibilities, please see attached.

We are looking for someone who: -

Is friendly and approachable. Is a solid team player. Has the skill-set to work independently. Has excellent communication skills. Has the ability to work with children and their families in a sensitive and positive way. Is aware of and comply with safeguarding, health & safety, confidentiality and data protection policies and procedures Has planning, organisational and IT skills.
The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a strong work ethic and will have a flexible approach to the tasks they undertake.

Under direction/instruction of the School Operations Manager, to provide routine clerical/administrative/word processing/financial support to the school. This could include producing and formatting letters/documents, the filing and scanning of documents and supporting the with low level administration tasks. The role will involve the use of a range of software packages.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities - appropriate for this post:

- Provide general clerical and administrative support, including word processing, minute taking, filing routine correspondence, distributing mail, basic reprographics.

- Undertake reception and general office duties including responding to pupil enquiries, answering telephones and responding to routine queries including, where appropriate, dealing with visitors on behalf of the Headteacher.

- Maintaining and updating manual and computerised records including, for example, records of free school meals, school trips, registers etc including related data input.

- Maintaining stock and ordering supplies, including the processing of orders, check of incoming deliveries, obtaining prices from occasional suppliers and the distribution and storage of stock.

- General welfare support, where required, including liaison with staff and parents.

- Supporting with the planning and preparation of all school events including parents' evening, taster days, awards evening, open evenings etc as required.

General

- To work within school policies and procedures.

- To contribute to the provision of an effective environment for learning.

- To support the promotion of positive relationships with parents and outside agencies.

- To attend skill training and participate in personal/performance development as required.

- To take care for their own and other people's health and safety.

- To be aware of the confidential nature of issues.

- To be aware of the confidential nature of issues.

- To provide all necessary information to senior staff to support issues that may arise.

- Produce letters to be issued to staff.

- To assist the office with general administration duties.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract, Apprenticeship
Contract length: 15 months

Pay: From 7.55 per hour

Expected hours: 37 per week

Benefits:

Bereavement leave Company pension Enhanced maternity leave Enhanced paternity leave Free parking Gym membership Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Sick pay
Schedule:

Monday to Friday No weekends
Language:

English (preferred)
Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 01/09/2025