Apprentice Administration Assistant
Silver Tree Primary School & Nursery
Durham, DH7 7LF
Closes in 11 days (Friday 1 November at 11:59pm)
Posted on 18 October 2024
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Summary
As an Apprentice Administration Assistant at Silver Tree Primary and Nursery School your role will include providing general administrative support to the school. Daily duties will include but not limited to, answering telephone and face-to-face queries, recording attendance, calculating dinner numbers and providing basic first aid to pupils.
- Annual wage
- £10,816 a year
- Training course
- Business administrator (level 3)
- Hours
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Term time only 8.30am - 3.30pm each day. Days to be confirmed.
32 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 11 November
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
- Undertake reception duties; answering telephone, face to face enquiries, liaising with relevant staff, outside agencies and parents, dealing with visitors etc.
- Assist with pupil first aid
- Administer medicines
- Ordering, checking and auditing stock
- Provide general clerical/admin. support e.g. photocopying, filing, complete standard forms, respond to routine correspondence
- Maintain manual and computerised records/management information systems, input new data as necessary
- Produce lists/information/data as required e.g. class lists, book labels etc.
- Undertake typing and word-processing and other IT based tasks
- Maintain and collate pupil details on managements system
- Liaise with sports coach to manage and administer clubs
- Operate relevant equipment/ICT packages (e.g. Word, Excel, databases, spreadsheets, SIMS)
- Maintain stock and supplies, cataloguing and distributing as required
- Provide general information and guidance to staff, pupils and others
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure equal opportunities for all
- Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school
- Appreciate and support the role of other professionals
- Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required
- Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required
- Any other duties considered to be appropriate to the role
Where you’ll work
Silver Tree Primary School and Nursery
Durham Road
Ushaw Moor
Durham
DH7 7LF
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
DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE
Your training course
Business administrator (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
Your training plan
- Business Administrator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
- All training will be delivered in the workplace
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Maths & English (grade 4/C or equivalent)
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this company
We are a vibrant school in Ushaw Moor with children from 2 to 11 years. There are over 200 children in our care and we work hard to ensure every child thrives in our school.
After this apprenticeship
- Opportunity for full-time permanent role in school office after successful completion of apprenticeship
- Further progression opportunities to train as a school business manager
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE
Apprenticeship recruitment team
apprenticeships@derwentside.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000282948.
Apply now
Closes in 11 days (Friday 1 November at 11:59pm)
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