Required for: May 2024 earliest start
Working Days: 3 days a week, between Monday – Thursday
(Term-Time plus 3 weeks)
Pay: £28,000 – £34,000 FTE (depending on experience)
£15,500 – £18,800 Actual based on 3 days
Do you want to work in a school with like minded, fun and creative individuals? Do you want to wake up excited to go to work everyday?
Gesher School is a unique all-through school providing a specialist, meaningful and functional learning environment for young people with mild to moderate special educational needs. This includes Autism, ADHD, Down Syndrome and MLD.
We are looking for a confident, enthusiastic and highly motivated Assistant to the Leadership Team to join our team at Gesher school. This post would suit a passionate, dynamic and adaptable individual who ideally has experience in this field.
This position offers fantastic opportunities to develop your skills as a practitioner within an innovative, supportive and collaborative team environment.
We can offer you:
● Monthly well-being events and inset days
● Regular social opportunities
● Working from home opportunities
The role features relevant training, support and supervision alongside paid school holidays, dedicated administrative time and enhanced CPD opportunities. You will be a fully integrated and integral member of the whole school team. See us in action here:
https://vimeo.com/407682934/a9a6af1bc8 And http://gesherschool.com
Roles and Responsibilities
● Ensure all new staff have an Induction process in place, all necessary paperwork and training have been identified and face-to-face sessions have been booked and accounted for.
● Support the marketing strategy of the school alongside Head of Media
● Policy planner upkeep, chasing various members of the school team and governors in a timely manner to ensure policy deadlines are met.
● Quality Assurance review, updating various school team members in a timely manner to ensure quality assurance process is met.
● Manage the Annual Review process as delegated by the SENDCOs including booking Annual reviews with parents, following up correspondence, booking meeting rooms, and identifying cover needed within the staff team. Minute taking of Annual Reviews. Updating and amending EHCPs where relevant and necessary.
● Minute taking of SLT meetings, the delegation of action points
● Organise venues for meetings and tours supporting the SLT – materials needed including water, snacks etc
● To particularly support with administration around GCSE options and Careers Education, Information & Guidance (CEIG), and support Careers Day
● To organise and ensure all Performance Management meetings for SLT and direct reports are timely and all paperwork is produced and stored appropriately
● To manage the production, coordination and quality assurance of reports, documents and briefing papers, including filing electronically or paper as directed by the SLT
● Collate and disseminate all necessary paperwork during the Admissions process
● Collect data from the Admissions process to share with Governors
● Organise and book observations to support the admissions process
● Support Head and SLT with the necessary information required for the SEF, SIP and other necessary reports for the Governors and Trustees
To apply, please complete an application which can be found here.
Please, complete and return your application to [email protected]. CVs will not be accepted.
Interviews will be organised on a rolling basis. This ad may be withdrawn as a suitable candidate is identified.
Diversity is a core value of Gesher School. We believe the power of diversity enriches all of us by exposing us to a range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions. As such, we actively encourage people from a variety of backgrounds to apply for roles at our school.
Gesher School is committed to safeguarding young people and staff. Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
