Job Title: Administration Assistant

Location: Aldridge

At Aldridge School we aim to ensure that every young person achieves their potential by providing an education that challenges them intellectually and offers them a wide range of opportunities to develop and stretch their unique talents and interests. 

We believe that education is more than just grades. Grades are certainly the 'passport' that pupils need to move on to the next stage of their lives, and we will do whatever it takes to ensure they are able to achieve their aspirations. However, the real art of education is to develop confident, resilient, and independent young people who are in possession of the 'passport' that grades provide. 

We feel that our aims are best achieved by providing a challenging learning environment that is built upon a formula of high expectations, inspired and passionate teaching, and strong pastoral support. 

We expect our pupils to arrive at school on time, complete their homework, bring the right equipment, and apply themselves to their studies with intellectual curiosity and academic endeavour. We have high expectations, but our staff work relentlessly to support our pupils in meeting these. 

Find more information here: Aldridge School - Home

Want to make a difference to young people?

Are you ready to embark on a rewarding journey within an educational community that values increasing opportunities, improving outcomes for our students. We are looking for a Administration Assistant to join our team. Reporting to the Data Manager  you will undertake:

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

·       Support the Assistant Headteacher in charge of Primary Liaison/Year 6 transition by providing an efficient administrative service for the Year 6 transition process, e.g. liaising with primary schools to request student files, corresponding with the Local Authority and parents to ensure data held is accurate and kept up-to-date, requesting and inputting student data into the School’s Information Management System, liaising with Year Offices to ensure students’ medical needs are documented and shared with staff, arranging parent meetings.

Ensure that data held on students is kept up to date on the School’s Information Management System.

Generate and distribute annual data collection sheets to parents.

Support the Data Manager with the production of KS3 mid-term reports and progress checks.

Provide general administrative, clerical, and practical support as required e.g., word processing documents, mail merging labels, designing booklets/event materials producing staff briefing notes.

Support with digital resources and the school’s digital transformation

Supporting with safeguarding filters

Covering Reception where required

To support the administration of careers events for each year group.

Support with the organisation of school immunisations and liaising with Vaccination UK.

Setting up parents evening appointments.

Arranging annual school photographs for the whole school.

Support the creation and issuing of staff door access cards for new starters, including taking photographs, in line with agreed procedures and under the direction of the Facilities Manager.

First aid trained.

Monitoring and ordering of stationery supplies.

Any other ad-hoc requests from SLT including providing admin support in Year Offices.  

Pay range: Grade 4 SCP 6-11 TT including inset days + 1 week (Actual Salary: £22927-£24826)

Qualifications and Skills: 

·        GCSE English and Maths Grade C or above

          Previous experience of working within an education setting

          IT experience

          Previous experience of record keeping

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For full details of the post please see attached Job Description and Person Specification

 Why The Mercian Trust?

As one Trust we share a common purpose.  We call it our social mobility and social justice mission to change our communities through the very best equitable education.  When we get this right, it enables our children and young people to fulfil their potential, thrive in the world of work, and make a positive contribution to the local, national and international community. Our recent achievements include:

Sustainable Growth - becoming one of the largest and most diverse trusts in the region

Social Mobility & Social Justice - National recognition for the Trust’s two selective grammar schools who the most successful on the number of local disadvantaged students passing the entrance and joining the schools

Increasing Opportunities – Opening brand-new purpose-built campus in Walsall Town Centre including an alternative provision for students at risk at permanent exclusion from mainstream schools alongside a Digital Skills Hub to provide professionals and employers

Pioneering Spirit – National recognition for pioneering work around youth mental health, including establishing an in-house multi-disciplinary team of clinicians and allied health professionals delivering interventions and providing support to vulnerable students

Outward Looking – Organising and hosting the region’s first Youth Suicide Conference (2023) and Youth Violence Conference (2024) at Villa Park

Innovation and Improvement – A multi-million-pound investment in the digital infrastructure of Trust schools and our Digital Skills Hub underpinning the ongoing transformation of how staff teach, students learn, leaders lead and the whole Trust operates in readiness for the AI-supercharged careers and workplaces of the future.

Want to be a part of something extraordinary? Find out more:  The Mercian Trust - Home

What can we offer you:

Benefits: 

Financial, Health and Lifestyle

• discounts on everyday purchases (Eden Red)
• a comprehensive free of charge health plan (UK Health Care)
• a cycle to work scheme via Halfords

For further benefits including education sector leading CPD: The Mercian Trust - What we can offer you

The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.

The Mercian Trust is also committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. 

Please take time to read our policies attached to this advert.