Admin Team Leader

Lincewood Primary School is looking to appoint a friendly, self-motivated and enthusiastic Admin Lead with Finance and Personnel duties to provide an effective and efficient school office service and support to the school.

Pay Range: Local Government Pay Scale 6, Point 13-17

This post is 37 hours per week, 5 days a week

Hours 8:30am to 4:30pm, includes a 30 minute lunch break

Term time only plus 5 non-pupil days

Actual Salary from: £23,312 - £24,916 (Scale 6, Point 13-17)

(example annual pay with over 5 years service)

Start Date: 4th November 2024

Some of your responsibilities will include:

To organise the day to day work of administrative staff in the main office to provide an effective and efficient service to staff, parents, visitors and telephone callers To assist the School Business Manager to accurately maintain the school's financial accounting system (FMS in respect of routine transactions) and administer Personnel documentation as directed by the School Business Manager To ensure that all procedures relating to routine transactions are carried out in accordance with the school's financial regulations, good practice and relevant statutory legislation. This post will support the Headteacher and senior staff in all matters relating to attendance

We are looking for you if you have:

· Have the skills to manage a very busy office, prioritising and managing workload

· Contribute to the smooth running of the school by organising effective administration, financial and clerical systems

· Experience of SIMS and FMS, the schools management systems

· Experience of administrative work in a busy school office environment

· Experience working with and be proficient in Microsoft Office packages

· Excellent professional and friendly inter-personal skills

· Be an effective communicator with pupils, staff and parents

· Educated at GCSE, or equivalent, in English and Maths

· Knowledge of general school policies and procedures

· Understand and implement the school's behaviour management policy

· Good organisational skills

· Understand and implement safeguarding procedures

· Good sense of humour

(The full details can be found in the attached Job Outline and Person Specification)

Lincewood Primary School is an inclusive, caring and supporting school, with children at the heart of every decision we make. We have aspirational expectations and a broad, balanced and engaging curriculum, which aims to foster a love of learning. Our school values revolve around the ICARE acronym, helping us to develop an inclusive, caring, aspirational, resilient and enthusiastic atmosphere for all. We are a Thrive school and use the principles of Thrive to support pupils who have experienced childhood trauma and we are proud to be an Inclusion Centre of Excellence.

Lincewood Primary School is part of CRESCO Multi Academy Trust. Cresco Multi Academy Trust is based in Basildon and consists of Great Berry, Janet Duke, Lincewood and Noak Bridge Primary Schools. The aim is to share good practice and provide the best education for all our children.

We believe that this collaborative partnership will have a positive impact and enable us to drive school improvement, help us to build capacity, develop our staff, secure the best financial value for each of our academies and support greater pupil attainment and opportunity.