Admissions Officer - The Beaconsfield School

Buckinghamshire Council; Beaconsfield; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job description

Admissions Officer - The Beaconsfield School

Location: Beaconsfield

Term time only

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 20

Interviews to be held: On receipt of suitable applications

About us

As a school we are creative in our curriculum and we treat each child as an individual; because of this, learning and progress is at the centre of everything we do. We work towards making the selective system irrelevant. We have 870 students, with a growing 6th form and just fewer than 100 staff at the school.

Managing the schools admissions, monitoring the number of applications to join the school as well as leavers and ensuring compliance with the school admissions code. You will be a key and informed point of contact for parents, schools, and colleagues in dealing efficiently with queries, requests and providing up to date advice in relation to all admissions processes.

Why should you work at The Beaconsfield School?

• Highly supportive staff body, including a staff committee responsible for representing staff wellbeing
• Bespoke professional opportunities including support to undertake Masters and NPQ programmes
• Significant investment in a newly refurbished staff room and staff workroom
• Dedicated time within the school day for co-planning
• Free tea and coffee for all staff, we believe in providing the best possible working environment for staff and small gestures make a big difference.

The Beaconsfield School has good road links to London, Reading, Maidenhead and Oxford – situated just 5 minutes from the M40 and a 10-minute walk from Beaconsfield Train Station.

About you

You need to be highly organised and systematic in your approach. The role involves communicating with a range of different stakeholders; parents/students/staff as well as the local authority and other schools. Whilst the exact hours worked can be negotiated for the successful candidate, there will be set times of the year when the workload will be higher than others, a willingness to work flexibly is necessary.

Other information

Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.

Please send completed application forms to Mrs C Legg at the email address below.

The Beaconsfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a self-disclosure form and return it prior to interview.