Admin Apprentice
Unity City Academy
Middlesbrough, TS3 8RE
Closes in 26 days (Saturday 26 October)
Posted on 27 September 2024
Contents
Summary
Join our team as an Admin Apprentice and be part of the team that provides invaluable support to the wider school. Your contribution will ensure smooth delivery of; an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
- Annual wage
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£12,313.60 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
£6.72 per hour within the first year of apprenticeship, Apprentices national minimum wage (NMW) for all other apprentices
- Training course
- Business administrator (level 3)
- Hours
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37 hours per week, Full time. Monday-Friday. Term time + 5 days.
37 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Friday 1 November
- Duration
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1 Year 9 Months
- Positions available
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1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
Administration
- Draft and distribute internal and external communications, including newsletters, bulletins, and announcements. Monitor school email and respond to enquiries promptly.
- Maintain and update administrative and information systems, including student and staff records.
- Compile and organise data for reports as required by the senior leadership team.
- Monitor and order office supplies and other educational resources as needed, ensuring adequate stock levels.
- Manage school admissions by collecting and processing student applications, maintaining enrolment records and assisting with admissions enquiries, including appeals.
- Coordinate meetings and events such as school trips and parents’ evenings as required.
- Manage school lunches, including setting up dinner registers, chasing payments, processing Free School Meals applications, logging changes into relevant systems and inform parents of changes
- Execute administrative tasks promptly and accurately, adhere to administrative procedures and processes.
- Assist the senior leadership team with administrative tasks, such as photocopying and printing.
- Adhere to safeguarding policies and procedures, maintaining confidentiality and professionalism at all times.
Reception
- Provide effective reception support, greeting visitors and communicating with courtesy and clarity to all stakeholders.
- Manage general telephone and in-person enquiries with professionalism, directing these to the appropriate staff members.
Where you’ll work
Ormesby Road
Middlesbrough
TS3 8RE
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
LIFT SCHOOLS
Your training course
Business administrator (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
Your training plan
- Your Trainer will meet with you in the workplace or online every 2-4 weeks.
- In between these meetings, you will have dedicated time away from your job to work on the apprenticeship and collate evidence for your apprenticeship e-portfolio with ongoing support from your Manager and Trainer.
- Attend reviews with your employer and apprenticeship Trainer every 10 weeks to review your progress on the Level 3 programme.
- The typical duration of the apprenticeship is 21 months, however, can be longer or shorter depending on existing knowledge, skills and experience.
- You may also be required to complete maths and English Functional Skills (this will be determined by your existing qualifications).
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- Maths and English (grade A-C or 4-9)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Willing to learn
- Ability to self-evaluate
- Able to work flexibly
Other requirements
To be eligible, applicants must have resided in the UK or EEA for 3 years prior to the start of the Apprenticeship. Please note: you must not have already completed a Level 3 Business Admin apprenticeship.
About this company
Who is Lift Schools? We’re a diverse and inclusive network of schools with one clear mission; to provide an excellent education to every child - in every classroom, every day. And we do this across each of our 57 schools. As with our students, we want our team to be empowered to do their best work, supported by the best leadership they’ve ever had. We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of everyone here in making this an incredible organisation. With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives. We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of all our people.
https://www.liftschools.org/ (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- Possibility of progressing to a higher-level apprenticeship or full-time employment within this sector
- This apprenticeship will teach you highly transferable knowledge, skills and behaviours which can be applied across all sectors
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Unity City Academy
Talent Team
recruitment@liftschools.org
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000279494.
Apply now
Closes in 26 days (Saturday 26 October)
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