Vacancy Details
Vacancy Summary
Executive Assistant
Salary: SO1 (£30,151 – £32,020)
Permanent, Full Time
Do you relish the chance to join a team determined to help all children achieve a great life? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you.
Beckfoot Trust wishes to appoint an enthusiastic Executive Assistant at Beckfoot Heaton Primary School & Nursery to join our strong team. We are looking for a highly ambitious candidate who can provide excellence in all aspects of their role.
Vacancy Information
We are a diverse Multi Academy Trust of 10 schools; primary, secondary and special. We are proud of the clarity that is expressed in our principles of alignment and the value that we place on individual and school diversity. This Trust is determined that everyone has the power to lead and that we serve our local community in action as well as words. All of our leaders are committed to being supported and challenged to be better tomorrow than they are today and are genuinely excited about the next phase in our journey to remarkable.
We want our students to love learning and be well placed to do something great with their lives. We create remarkable learning environments in which students expect success because of their ambitious attitude to learning, the challenge provided by staff and the support they receive at home. High quality professional development and leadership training for staff are central features of our Trust. We leave no child behind and genuinely believe that all can succeed.
Please see the candidate pack for more details about our Trust.
What we offer:
We aim to attract and retain mission-aligned people, enhance employee engagement and maximise performance. Our People First Charter makes clear what we striving to achieve as a people first organisation and our overarching people first strategic aim is to be One Trust where all belong.
Beckfoot Trust schools work in partnership with a shared ambition to provide outstanding education for our students. We highly value the need for psychological safety and belonging and we regularly train all our staff on what that means. We value authenticity and honesty and celebrate what makes individuals and organisations unique.
We authentically value staff through specific praise, recognising what they do to make a difference to the lives of young people on a daily basis.
We demonstrate we are morally committed to achieving true diversity throughout our whole organisation as well as believing that commonality binds us together.
We find ways of reducing unnecessary workload for all and we promote wellbeing and a healthy and safe work environment in all our schools, providing access to wellness advice, lifestyle benefits and free expert and confidential counselling through our employee assistance programme.
Beckfoot Trust provides clarity of expectations, always precisely modelling what we want so that there is no ambiguity and gives dedicated time to collective efficacy.
What you offer:
Beckfoot Trust wishes to appoint an Executive Assistant for Beckfoot Heaton Primary School & Nursery.
We are seeking an individual who has the motivation, enthusiasm and skill set to work with the Senior Leadership and Administration Teams and other stakeholders to ensure the Schools’ work runs efficiently and supports students to achieve top 10% outcomes in a remarkable learning environment.
We are looking for a highly organised and highly effective candidate who can administration and office management.
The Executuve Assistant is a key role in school, who contributes to the overall ethos/work/aims of the School and the Trust.
For further information on this role, please refer to the Job Description/Person Specification in the documents below.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs, certain spent convictions and cautions are protected and they do not need to be disclosed to employers. If they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website and further information about filtering offences can be found in DBS filtering guide.
Our full recruitment policy is available here and if you have any questions, please contact Jenny McUrich centralrecruitment@beckfoottrust.org
To apply for this role please fully complete the application form from our website: https://www.beckfoottrust.org/work-with-us/current-vacancies/beckfoot-heaton-primary-executive-assistant/?preview=1
We encourage visits to the school. If you would like to arrange a visit please contact Jenny McUrich centralrecruitment@beckfoottrust.org to arrange.
Please email completed applications to centralrecruitment@beckfoottrust.org%C2%A0%C2%A0
Closing Date: 9am, Wednesday 13th September 2023