School Business Assistant

Salary details: £ - £

PLEASE DO NOT APPLY USING THE DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL WEBSITE, PLEASE SEE DETAILS BELOW.

School Business Assistant at Team Ridgeway.

Our friendly and welcoming primary school is seeking a professional and approachable School Business Assistant to provide a positive first point of contact, delivering excellent administrative support and customer service to pupils, parents, staff, and visitors.

Team Ridgeway is looking to appoint an exceptionally organised School Business Assistant who has experience in leading administration in a school setting or busy office environment. We are looking for a candidate who is motivated and can keep up with the busy demands of day-to-day school life, whilst still maintaining a friendly and approachable first point of call for our families and visitors.

The successful candidate should be confident and familiar in;

Administraton

• IT systems including but not limited to Microsoft office
• ensuring the effective collection of dinner money and daily entries into the class registers
• open and prioritising paper and electronic mail for staff, forwarding to the appropriate people as necessary
• completing and promoting free school meal authorisations
• using school transfer via the internet and post for admissions and leavers
• maintaining up to date electronic diaries for the school and parents through the website
• organising and maintaining filing systems for pupil records
• ensuring all electronic records of pupil contact details are always up to date
• administer first aid to children and staff where necessary
• completing the pupil workforce census
• recording of incidents including accident forms
• inputting end of key stage data

 Finance

• managing and monitoring licences, insurances and contracts on behalf of the school
• ensuring the proper collection, reconciliation and banking of any monies received by the school
• completing month end procedures to support the Finance Business Partner which includes the month end bank reconciliation.

HR

being responsible for ensuring all the new starter documentation is in place relating to staff employment

Ensuring absences are correctly recorded for staff

maintaining the single central record

Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided. Click here to see our policy on criminal background checks.

Please be aware that Derbyshire County Council is placing this advert on behalf of this organisation and you should refer directly to its website for details of the terms and conditions attached to this post. Any queries regarding this advert or the recruitment process should be made directly to the organisation.