Office Manager - Part-time

Pay: KR6

Start Date: July/August 2021

The Island Learning Trust are looking to recruit an experienced Office Manager to manage the administrative function within a school. You will be based at Halfway Houses Primary School in the main office and will be the first point of contact for parents/carers and visitors to the school. Therefore, a courteous and professional manner is essential as well as the ability to deal with sensitive issues in confidence.

The position is for 37 hours per week for 40 weeks of the year - term-time plus 2 weeks in the summer holidays.

Your role will include a range of administrative duties and the overall responsibility of managing the two office staff. Experience of working in a busy school office and using SIMS is desirable, as well as being proficient in the use of Word and Excel.

If this sounds like the job for you, please do visit the school for an informal chat with the Head of School.

Please also look on our Trust and school websites to find out more about The Island Learning Trust community and why we encourage everyone 'to be the best they can be'.

If you have any queries, please contact the Trust Administrator, Sarah Stanier on Ext. 203 who will be happy to help.

Closing Date: 22/06/2021 at 12:00

Interviews: ASAP following shortlisting

Information about the trust

TILT is a local, high performing Trust that is invested in raising aspirations for children and families in Swale. The Island Learning Trust promotes and achieves excellence. It recognises the importance of outstanding teaching and learning by actively encouraging creativity and innovation, whilst having consistent standards of behaviour and attendance. Treating everyone as equal, whilst celebrating diversity, is a non-negotiable; protecting all through safeguarding, health and safety and welfare is paramount. The Trust's core mission is to drive transformation in eductional standards for all pupils; accelerating progress, raising standards of education achieved and the aspirations of the children and families we serve, developing high performing, outstanding schools for the future.

Staff have a responsibility to be positive in their relationships with pupils and supportive of each other. We have a responsibilty to ensure every moment a child is in our school will be spent productively. Through thorough use of evidence we will enable all children to make excellent progress. Our motto is "...to be the best we can be..." We maintain a relentless focus on raising standards of achievement so that all pupils have opportunites to achieve their full potential.

We expect all staff to maintain the highest professional standards at all times. We put children first. Staff are prepared to go the extra mile to provide the best possible education for their pupils. Our aim should always be to provide for the pupils of our school what we would want for our own children. In order to do this we maintain a rigorous focus on: accelerating and improving attainment and progress, improving the quality of teaching and learning so that it is at least strongly good, effective leadership and accountability structures and ensuring consistent application of agreed systems and processes throughout all TILT schools.

The Island Learning Trust was established on 1st November 2016. The MAT was comprised of Minster Primary and Halfway Houses Primary, both schools are on the Isle of Sheppey, an area of high deprivation and socio economic challenges. These two founding schools are both Ofsted rated good schools. The outcomes at Minster Primary are outstanding. Sunny Bank Primary School in Sittingbourne joined TILT in February 2020 under a sponsorship arrangement and significant all round improvement has been made with the support of the MAT.

Our School and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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