Receptionist/Admin Officer

About The Role

Contract Type: Fixed Term Maternity Cover until 31 August 2024, Term Time Only
Working Hours: Full Time, Monday to Friday 08:30 - 16:00
Number of Positions: 1
Qualifications Required: Posses good numeracy and literacy skills. knowledge of SIMS desirable but not essential

Ashgate School is looking to appoint an enthusiastic, friendly and efficient Receptionist/Admin Officer to join our administration team.

Experience of administration work is essential, this does not have to be school based.

Like all of our staff, applicants need to be reliable and adaptable, with positive attitudes towards children and young people with special needs.

Everyone here, including casual employees, works in a challenging but rewarding and supportive environment.

Specific duties and responsibilities will include:

• To receive visitors to the school and communicate to all staff, pupils, parents, carers, visitors, outside agencies and the wider community, including answering general telephone and face to face queries.
• To provide general clerical and administrative support
• Arranging meetings and events and taking notes at meetings to a high standard
• To operate relevant equipment and ICT packages; knowledge of SIMS desirable but not essential
• Ordering and distributing of school supplies
• Using initiative in time management to organise own workload in order to meet deadlines

About the Candidate

The successful candidate will possess the following:

• Experience of general clerical, administrative and financial work
• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Ability to manage own workload effectively
• Ability to produce accurate written minutes/notes of meetings
• Good keyboard skills in order to produce high quality documents
• Have a knowledge and awareness of the regulatory framework around education and schools
• Ability to relate well to children and adults
• Ability to work constructively as part of a team, understanding school roles and responsibilities and your own position within these
• Ability to identify your own training and development needs and cooperate with the means to address these needs

About Us

Ashgate Specialist Support Primary School is an Outstanding (Ofsted April 2019) specialist school.

The curriculum and learning environment of each class are carefully created to provide appropriate and exciting learning opportunities for our children.

The staff at our school are caring, experienced and committed to meeting the individual needs of every child and to creating a happy, safe and secure environment.

Our wider curriculum helps children develop skills for learning and skills for life; we aim to support the children in developing their communication and core skills whilst enjoying a wide variety of extracurricular activities. We believe in empowering our children to grow in confidence and be as independent as possible.

We work with children who have Profound Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD) Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) and Autism (ASC).


To apply for this role, please download the application form and email it to: l.thompson@ashgate.manchester.sch.uk

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We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here
This post is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and other pre-employment checks where applicable.

We strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.