Finance and HR Admin Assistant - Amersham School
Location: Amersham
Overview
Start Date: as soon as possible
Term time only: Yes
Salary Type: Bucks pay
Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 3.16 pro rata
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Term time only plus 10 days, 35 hours per week
Closing date: 11/01/2025 00:00
Interviews to be held: week commencing 13th January 2025
About us
At Amersham School we pride ourselves on our ability to provide each and every one of our students with a first class and personalised education which enables them to flourish and succeed in all areas of school life. We strive to create a supportive and structured learning environment in which individuals are challenged to realise their full potential and encouraged to be ambitious for their futures. We believe it is of the utmost importance for students to become self-confident, positive and enquiring learners and this vision underpins everything we do.
Website: https://www.amershamschool.org.uk
About the role
Reporting to the Trips Manager and Finance Manager
Key responsibilities include being the first point of contact for all ParentPay queries, providing admin support to teaching staff for UK and Day trips, and recruitment administration, to include obtaining references for new starters and DBS checks.
About you
Successful candidates will have a good standard of education including Maths and English to GCSE grade C or 5 equivalent and prior experience of administrative work in a busy customer focused environment, strong IT skills and experience working in a team and to deadlines.
Prior experience of working in a school environment and SIMS database would be desirable.
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.
To apply, please complete a non-teaching application form which can be obtained from the vacancies page of the school's website: www.amershamschool.org
The completed application form and a covering letter should be addressed to the Headteacher, Sharon Jarrett and emailed to: [email protected]
Tel No: 01494 726562
The school is committed to stringent safe recruitment procedures and the successful candidates will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check as well as take part in a safer recruitment interview.
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).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
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 self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
